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.
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.
Franz Kafka Museum
Cihelná 2b, 118 00 Prague 1
Franz Kafka was born in Prague on July 3, 1883, lived almost his entire life within a single square kilometer of the Old Town, wrote some of the most unsettling fiction of the 20th century, and asked his friend Max Brod to burn every word of it after he died.
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.
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.
Petrin Hill & Tower
Petřínské sady, 118 00 Prague 1
In 1889, a group of Czech tourists visited the World Exhibition in Paris, saw the Eiffel Tower, and thought: we need one of those.
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.
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.
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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