Presiding over Chalres Square is this 1660s baroque tour de force, designed for the Jesuits by Carlo Lurago.
Church of St Ignatius
Prague
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Strolling across Charles Bridge is everybody’s favourite Prague activity. However, by 9am it’s a 500m-long fairground, with an army of tourists squeezing…
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Strahov Library is the largest monastic library in the country, with two magnificent baroque halls dating from the 17th and 18th centuries. You can peek…
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Prague’s most exuberantly art-nouveau building is a labour of love, with every detail of its design and decoration carefully considered, and every…
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While this monument's massive functionalist structure has all the elegance of a nuclear power station, the interior is a spectacular extravaganza of…
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More a broad boulevard than a typical European city square, Wenceslas Square has witnessed a great deal of Czech history – a giant Mass was held here…
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With an area of more than seven hectares, Charles Square is Prague’s biggest – it’s more like a small park, really, and was originally the city's cattle…
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The baroque palace at the southern end of Charles Square is known as Faust House because, according to the popular German legend, this was where…
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The New Town Hall was built in the late 14th century, when the New Town was still new. From the window of the main hall (the tower was not built until…
4. National Memorial to the Heroes of the Heydrich Terror
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The Church of Sts Cyril & Methodius houses a moving memorial to the seven Czech paratroopers who were involved in the assassination of Reichsprotektor…
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This rotunda is one of the few surviving examples of circular Romanesque churches in the city. It dates from the 12th century and was originally the…
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The most striking building in the drab neighbourhood south of Ječná is the energetically baroque Vila Amerika, a 1720s, French-style summer house designed…
7. Charles University Botanical Garden
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Just south of Charles Square is Charles University’s botanical garden. Founded in 1775 and moved from Smíchov to its present site in 1898, it’s the…
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The Dancing House was built in 1996 by architects Vlado Milunić and Frank Gehry. The curved lines of the narrow-waisted glass tower clutched against its…
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