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.
Church of Our Lady Victorious (Infant Jesus)
Karmelitská 9, 118 00 Prague 1
This small Baroque church in Mala Strana contains one of the most venerated Catholic objects in the world: a 45-centimeter wax statue of the infant Christ that has been credited with miracles since the 17th century and is worshipped by millions of Catholics from Spain to the Philippines.
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.
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.
Golden Lane
Zlatá ulička, 119 00 Prague 1
The houses on Golden Lane look like they were designed for elves.
Havel's Market
Havelská, 110 00 Prague 1
This open-air market has been operating since 1232 — that's nearly eight hundred years of continuous trading on the same street.
Jewish Quarter (Josefov)
Josefov, 110 00 Prague 1
Prague's Jewish Quarter is the remains of a world that was deliberately erased — twice.
Lennon Wall
Velkopřevorské nám., 100 00 Prague 1
John Lennon never visited Prague.
Letna Park
Letenské sady, 170 00 Prague 7
The most famous thing in Letna Park is something that isn't there anymore.
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 Jewish Cemetery
Siroka 3, 110 00 Prague 1
There is no place in Europe quite like this.
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.
Sedlec Ossuary (Bone Church)
Zámecká 127, 284 03 Kutná Hora
Somewhere between 40,000 and 70,000 dead people are decorating this chapel, and the effect is equal parts horrifying and beautiful.
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.
U Fleku Brewery
Kremencova 11, 110 00 Prague 1
Beer has been brewed on this exact spot since 1499, making U Fleku the only brewery in Central Europe where production has never stopped for more than five centuries.
Vysehrad
V Pevnosti 159/5b, 128 00 Prague 2
Before Prague Castle existed, there was Vysehrad.
Wenceslas Square
Vaclavske nam., 110 00 Prague 1
It looks like a boulevard, not a square — 750 meters long and 60 meters wide, more Champs-Elysees than piazza.
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