15 Stunning Architecture Landmarks in Prague
15 landmarks with verified facts and stories
Charles Bridge
Karluv most, 110 00 Prague 1
Construction began at 5:31 AM on July 9, 1357 — and that exact time wasn't an accident.
Church of Our Lady before Tyn
Staromestske nam., 110 00 Prague 1
Those twin spires — 80 meters of blackened Gothic stone bristling with subsidiary pinnacles — dominate the Old Town Square skyline and have done so since the 14th century.
Clementinum
Mariánské nám. 5, 110 00 Prague 1
The Clementinum is the second-largest complex of buildings in Prague after the castle, and most people walk past it without realizing what's inside.
Dancing House
Jiráskovo nám. 1981/6, 120 00 Prague 2
The site where the Dancing House stands was empty for fifty years before anyone built on it.
Estates Theatre
Železná 540/1, 110 00 Prague 1
On October 29, 1787, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart stood in this theatre and conducted the world premiere of "Don Giovanni.
Mala Strana (Lesser Town)
Malá Strana, 118 00 Prague 1
Mala Strana is Prague's most beautiful neighborhood, and the reason it looks the way it does is catastrophe.
Municipal House
nám. Republiky 5, 111 21 Prague 1
If you want to understand what Art Nouveau looks like when an entire nation throws its best artists at a single building, the Municipal House is your answer.
National Theatre
Narodni 2, 110 00 Prague 1
The Czechs crowdfunded this building before crowdfunding was a word.
Old Town Square
Staromestske nam., 110 00 Prague 1
Every revolution, every invasion, every moment that mattered in Czech history — someone was standing in this square when it happened.
Powder Tower
nám. Republiky 5, 110 00 Prague 1
The name is misleading on two counts.
Prague Astronomical Clock
Staromestske nam. 1, 110 00 Prague 1
Every hour, a skeleton pulls a rope, twelve apostles parade past two tiny windows, a rooster crows, and hundreds of tourists crane their necks upward in unison.
Prague Castle
Hradcany, 119 08 Prague 1
The Guinness Book of Records calls it the largest ancient castle in the world, and the numbers back that up: nearly 70,000 square meters, 570 meters long, and more than eleven centuries of continuous use as a seat of power.
St. Vitus Cathedral
III. nadvori 48/2, 119 01 Prague 1
They started building this cathedral in 1344 and didn't finish until 1929 — nearly six hundred years of construction, which has to be some kind of European record for a building that nobody could agree was done.
Strahov Library
Strahovske nadvori 1/132, 118 00 Prague 1
Two rooms.
Zizkov Television Tower
Mahlerovy sady 1, 130 00 Prague 3
Praguers have been arguing about this tower since it was built in the 1980s, and three decades later, they still haven't reached a consensus.
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