Today’s Faust’s House in the corner of Charles Square has been connected with many mysterious legends since time immemorial, and therefore attracting all mystery lovers.
The legend of Dr. Faust, a solitary man looking for fulfilment of human life in a magic way, has been known in several versions, all of which say that the doctor in...
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Today it is the oldest unharmed Jewish cemetery as it survived the Nazi occupation unscathed. The cemetery was founded in the first half of the 15th century. The oldest tombstone, bearing the date of April 25th 1439, is that of Avigdor Kara, a scholar and poet who survived the pogrom of 1389 and wrote an elegy in memory of its victims.
The charm...
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The first Prague Baroque summer villa was built between 1679-1696 by the French architect and painter Jean Baptist Mathey (also sometimes called Matheus Burgundus). His participation on the construction of the summer palace is documented from 1685, up till then Domenico Orsi led the building work. Worth noting is the large oval shaped outdoor...
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History
This high-gothic tower from the workshop of the distinguished master builder Petr Parléř is one of the most beautiful examples of gothic architecture in Europe. The foundations of the sandstone tower were laid together with the foundations of the Charles Bridge, and its construction was completed in 1380. It is conceived as a...
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Kampa is a romantic island separated from the Lesser Quarter of Prague by a branch of the Vltava river called the Čertovka. The water from this canal was originally used by water mills, some of which have been partially preserved. The wooden wheels of a former mill called Huť and the late Renaissance Velkopřevorský (sometimes called...
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The Charles Bridge across the Vltava river which joins together the Old Town with the Lesser Quarter is considered to be the most famous Prague monument. It was founded on July 9th 1357 and built during the reign of Charles IV in place of the Judith Bridge which had been destroyed during a flood in 1342.
The Charles Bridge measures 520 metres...
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History
The history of the Old Town Hall began in 1338, when King John of Luxembourg granted Prague’s Old Town the right to establish its own administrative centre. The original basis for the town hall became the gothic house of the wealthy merchant Wolflin of Kamen, for whom a stately tower was built in 1364. The Old Town Hall is...
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The Petřín park is one of the largest parks in Prague. It was founded in an area that used to be a wood reaching as far as the Bílá Hora. Vineyards were planted here as early as the 12th century.The park was created by the joining up of the Na Nebozízku, Seminářská and Kinská gardens. The gardens...
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