100 Sights in Prague, Czechia (with Map and Images)
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Welcome to your journey through the most beautiful sights in Prague, Czechia! Whether you want to discover the city's historical treasures or experience its modern highlights, you'll find everything your heart desires here. Be inspired by our selection and plan your unforgettable adventure in Prague. Dive into the diversity of this fascinating city and discover everything it has to offer.
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The Lennon Wall or John Lennon Wall is a wall in Prague, Czech Republic. Since the 1980s, this once-typical wall has been filled with John Lennon–inspired graffiti, lyrics from Beatles' songs, and designs relating to local and global causes.
A statue of Franz Kafka by artist Jaroslav Róna was installed on Vězeňská street in the Jewish Quarter of Prague, Czech Republic in December 2003. It is situated near the Spanish Synagogue. It depicts Franz Kafka riding on the shoulders of a headless figure, in reference to the author's 1912 story "Description of a Struggle".
The Head of Franz Kafka, also known as the Statue of Kafka, is an outdoor kinetic sculpture by David Černý depicting Bohemian German-language writer Franz Kafka, installed on 31. October 2014 outside of the Quadrio shopping mall in Prague, Czech Republic.
The Žižkov Television Tower is a transmitter tower built in Prague between 1985 and 1992. Designed by the architect Václav Aulický and the structural engineer Jiří Kozák, it stands high above the city's traditional skyline from its position on top of a hill in the district of Žižkov, from which it takes its name. The tower is an example of high-tech architecture.
Municipal House is a civic building that houses Smetana Hall, a celebrated concert venue, in Prague, Czech Republic. It is located on Náměstí Republiky next to the Powder Gate in the centre of the city.
The Kingdom of Railways is primarily a set of several model railroads in a scale of 1:87. Particularly noteworthy is the exposition, located on the 2nd floor, presenting a simplified railway model of the Czech Republic. The trackage contains models of important buildings in the Czech Republic as well as several moving cars. In addition, some locomotives have cameras in the front, which broadcast live footage of the train's journey to the cinema hall, which is located near the tracks. On the track, the periods of day and night alternate in regular cycles.
The Spanish Synagogue is a former Conservative Jewish synagogue, located in the area of the so-called Jewish Town, Prague, in the Czech Republic. The synagogue was completed in 1868 in the Moorish Revival style on the site of the presumably oldest synagogue, Old School. In 1955 the former synagogue was permanently repurposed as a Jewish museum and is administered by the Jewish Museum in Prague.
Wikipedia: Spanish Synagogue (Prague) (EN), Heritage Website
The Old Jewish Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery in Prague, Czech Republic, which is one of the largest of its kind in Europe and one of the most important Jewish historical monuments in Prague. It served its purpose from the first half of the 15th century until 1786. Renowned personalities of the local Jewish community were buried here; among them rabbi Jehuda Liva ben Becalel – Maharal, businessman Mordecai Meisel (1528–1601), historian David Gans and rabbi David Oppenheim (1664–1736). Today the cemetery is administered by the Jewish Museum in Prague.
9. Prague Metronome
The Prague Metronome is a 75-foot-tall (23 m) functioning metronome in Letná Park, overlooking the Vltava River and the city center of Prague. The kinetic sculpture was erected in 1991, on the plinth left vacant by the late-1962 demolition of an enormous monument to former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. The silent red metronome was designed by international artist Vratislav Novák, and officially named "Time Machine". It may be the largest metronome in the world, although Geneva and Gdańsk each have a larger pendulum clock.
10. Charles Bridge
Charles Bridge is a medieval stone arch bridge that crosses the Vltava river in Prague, Czech Republic. Its construction started in 1357 under the auspices of King Charles IV, and finished in the early 15th century. The bridge replaced the old Judith Bridge built 1158–1172 that had been badly damaged by a flood in 1342. This new bridge was originally called Stone Bridge or Prague Bridge, but has been referred to as "Charles Bridge" since 1870.
11. Night
The Allegory of Night is an important Baroque sculpture from the workshop of Matthias Bernard Braun. It was created in 1733 or 1734 for the Royal Garden of Prague Castle at Hradčany and was located in front of the Ball Game Hall, where it is still located today.
12. Golden Lane
Golden Lane is a street situated in Prague Castle, Czech Republic. Originally built in the 16th century to house Rudolf II's castle guards, it takes its name from the goldsmiths that lived there in the 17th century.
13. DOX
The DOX Centre for Contemporary Art is a multifunctional space focused on the presentation of contemporary art, architecture and design. It was created by rebuilding a former factory in Prague's Holešovice district and was opened in 2008. The name DOX is derived from the Greek word doxa, which means, among other things, a way of understanding things, an opinion, a belief.
14. red pandas
The red panda, also known as the lesser panda, is a small mammal native to the eastern Himalayas and southwestern China. It has dense reddish-brown fur with a black belly and legs, white-lined ears, a mostly white muzzle and a ringed tail. Its head-to-body length is 51–63.5 cm (20.1–25.0 in) with a 28–48.5 cm (11.0–19.1 in) tail, and it weighs between 3.2 and 15 kg. It is well adapted to climbing due to its flexible joints and curved semi-retractile claws.
15. Historic Centre of Prague
Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic and the historical capital of Bohemia. Situated on the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.4 million people. The city has a temperate oceanic climate, with relatively warm summers and chilly winters.
16. Benito Juárez
Benito Pablo Juárez García was a Mexican Liberal lawyer and statesman who served as the 26th president of Mexico from 1858 until his death in office in 1872. Of Zapotec ancestry, he was the first and only indigenous president of Mexico and the first democratically elected indigenous president in the postcolonial Americas. Previously, he had served as Governor of Oaxaca and had later ascended to a variety of federal posts including Secretary of the Interior, Secretary of Public Education, and President of the Supreme Court. During his presidency he led the Liberals to victory in the Reform War and in the Second French intervention in Mexico.
17. gorillas
The western lowland gorilla is one of two Critically Endangered subspecies of the western gorilla that lives in montane, primary and secondary forest and lowland swampland in central Africa in Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon. It is the nominate subspecies of the western gorilla, and the smallest of the four gorilla subspecies.
18. Bernardo O'Higgins
Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme was a Chilean independence leader who freed Chile from Spanish rule in the Chilean War of Independence. He was a wealthy landowner of Basque-Spanish and Irish ancestry. Although he was the second Supreme Director of Chile (1817–1823), he is considered one of Chile's founding fathers, as he was the first holder of this title to head a fully independent Chilean state.
19. Prague Palace
Prague Castle is a castle complex in Prague, Czech Republic serving as the official residence and workplace of the president of the Czech Republic. Built in the 9th century, the castle has long served as the seat of power for kings of Bohemia, Holy Roman emperors, and presidents of Czechoslovakia. As such, the term "Prague Castle" or simply the "Castle" or "the Hrad" are often used as metonymy for the president and his staff and advisors. The Bohemian Crown Jewels are kept within a hidden room inside it.
20. Francisk Skaryna
Francysk Skaryna was a Belarusian humanist, physician, and translator. He is known to be one of the first book printers in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and in all of Eastern Europe, laying the groundwork for the development of the Belarusian izvod of the Church Slavonic language.
21. Žižkovské divadlo Járy Cimrmana
The Jára Cimrman Theatre is a Prague theatre company operating since the late 1960s. His repertoire consists of comic plays by Ladislav Smoljak and Zdeněk Svěrák on the theme of the fictional Czech genius Jára Cimrman, who is claimed to be the original author of these plays. Traditionally, only men play in the theatre, without any acting education – the only exception being the professional reinforcements Miroslav Táborský, Vojtěch Kotek, Josef Čepelka and Ondřej Vetchý, who were cast after a series of deaths of several core actors of the ensemble. It is one of the most successful and popular Czech authorial theatres and Czech post-war theatres in general.
22. Václav Hollar
Wenceslaus Hollar was a prolific and accomplished Bohemian graphic artist of the 17th century, who spent much of his life in England. He is known to German speakers as Wenzel Hollar; and to Czech speakers as Václav Hollar. He is particularly noted for his engravings and etchings. He was born in Prague, died in London, and was buried at St Margaret's Church, Westminster.
23. Old New Synagogue
The Old New Synagogue, also called the Altneuschul, is an Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, located in Josefov, Prague, in the Czech Republic. The synagogue is Europe's oldest active synagogue. Completed in 1270, it is also the oldest surviving medieval synagogue of twin-nave design.
24. svatý Matěj
The Church of St. Matthew in Dejvice is a small Roman Catholic parish church built in 1771 in the Baroque style. It is located with the adjacent cemetery on a hill above the Šárka Valley in Prague 6-Dejvice and forms the dominant feature of the lower Šárka. It falls under the responsibility of the Second Vicariate of Prague of the Archdiocese of Prague. The church dedicated to the Apostle Matthew is the original destination of the St. Matthew's Pilgrimage, known for its gingerbread nativity scenes.
25. Lobkovický palác
The Lobkowicz Palace is a part of the Prague Castle complex in Prague, Czech Republic. It is the only privately owned building in the Prague Castle complex and houses the Lobkowicz Collections and Museum.
26. Dejvické divadlo
The Dejvice Theatre is a theatre in Prague. It is located in Zelená Street in Prague-Dejvice, approximately 700 m north of the Dejvická metro station. It was founded in 1992 and has had the status of a professional scene since 1993.
27. Petrin Observation Tower
The Petřín Lookout Tower is a steel-framework tower 63.5 metres (208 ft) tall on Petřín Hill in Prague, built in 1891. It resembles the Eiffel Tower and was used as an observation tower as well as a transmission tower. Today the tower is a major tourist attraction.
28. National Gallery in Prague - Trade Fair Palace
The National Gallery Prague, formerly the National Gallery in Prague, is a state-owned art gallery in Prague, which manages the largest collection of art in the Czech Republic and presents masterpieces of Czech and international fine art in permanent and temporary exhibitions. The collections of the gallery are not housed in a single building, but are presented in a number of historic structures within the city of Prague, as well as other places. The largest of the gallery sites is the Trade Fair Palace, which houses the National Gallery's collection of modern art. Other important exhibition spaces are located in the Convent of St Agnes of Bohemia, the Kinský Palace, the Salm Palace, the Schwarzenberg Palace, the Sternberg Palace, and the Wallenstein Riding School. Founded in 1796, it is one of the world's oldest public art galleries and one of the largest museums in Central Europe.
29. Waldstein Garden
The Wallenstein Garden is one of the most distinctive buildings of the Czech early Baroque. It is located in Prague's Lesser Town and is part of the Wallenstein Palace, the seat of the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic. The Italian-style garden, which is open to the public and is divided by trimmed hedges, is equipped with water features, sculptural decorations, a grotto wall and a monumental sala terrena. Occasionally, concerts and exhibitions are held here.
30. Thun-Hohenštejnský palác
The Kolowrat Palace is a High Baroque building in Prague's Lesser Town, with a façade facing Nerudova Street, built between 1716 and 1721. The palace is a part of a palace complex, the second part of which consists of the Renaissance building of the Palace of the Lords of Hradec, later also called Slavatovský. Both palaces are protected as cultural monuments.
31. Saint Martin in the Wall
The Church of St. Martin in the Wall is a Gothic church with Romanesque grounds, situated in the Old Town of Prague, Czech Republic. It was built between 1178 and 1187 in the village of Újezd, thereafter known as Újezd u svatého Martina. The south wall of the church was built adjacent to the walls of the Old Town, hence the full name of the church "in the wall". The church belongs to the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren.
Wikipedia: Church of St. Martin in the Wall (EN), Website, Heritage Website
32. Saint Martin
The Rotunda of St. Martin is located at Vyšehrad and is the oldest preserved rotunda in Prague. From its construction to the present day, the building has undergone many changes, both architecturally and in the way it is used. The rotunda was built in the Romanesque style, and thanks to later reconstructions, this style was preserved through re-Romanization. The current owner is the Vyšehrad Chapter, masses are regularly held in the rotunda and it is possible to look inside by appointment.
33. Studio DK;Divadlo Kámen
The Kámen Theatre is Prague's authorial theatre and art salon, operating since 2007 in its own theatre studio for 50 spectators near the Invalidovna metro station in Prague's Karlín district. The Kámen Theatre was founded in 1998 and has created over 35 productions during its existence. Initially, it played mainly in several Prague clubs, but from 2004 to 2007 it played regularly in the Jára Cimrman Žižkov Theater and the Celetná Theater.
34. Zesnutí přesvaté Bohorodice
The Church of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos, also called the Orthodox, Russian Church, or Uspensky Church, etc., is an Orthodox paraphal church, located in the Orthodox part of the Olšany Cemetery in Prague 3-Žižkov.
35. U Jákobova žebříku
The Church at Jacob's Ladder is a sacral building of the Kobylisy congregation of the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren built in the northern part of Prague, in Kobylisy, in U Školské zahrady Street. Its construction was planned at the time of political liberalisation at the end of the 1960s as a replacement for an unsatisfactory temporary house of prayer that had been used until then. The architect of the building is the Swiss Ernst Gisel and its grand opening took place in 1971. Subsequently, in 1995 and 2001, the building was reconstructed and rebuilt according to the designs of Czech architects Radovan Schaufler and Jakub Roskovec, during which a bell tower with two bells was also built next to the church.
36. Prague State Opera
The State Opera is an opera house in Prague, Czech Republic. It is part of the National Theatre of the Czech Republic, founded by Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic in 1992. The theatre itself originally opened in 1888 as the New German Theatre and from 1949 to 1989 it was known as the Smetana Theatre. More recently it was renamed the Prague State Opera. Currently it is home to approximately 300 performances a year.
37. Obětem náletu 14.2.1945
Prague, the capital and largest city of the German-occupied Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, was bombed several times by the Allies during World War II. The first Allied aircraft to fly over Prague was a single bomber of the French Air Force in April 1940, but it dropped propaganda leaflets, not bombs. The first bombing mission was flown by the Royal Air Force (RAF) in October 1941. Prague was then bombed three times by the United States Army Air Forces between the fall of 1944 and spring of 1945. During the Prague uprising of 5–9 May 1945, the Luftwaffe made use of bombers against the rebels.
38. svatý archanděl Michael
The Church of St. Michael the Archangel, also known as the Carpathian Church of St. Michael, etc., is an all-wooden Orthodox, originally Greek-Catholic church of the Lemko type, built in 1625 in the village of Velké Loučky near Mukachevo, in 1793 it was sold and moved to Medvedovce. In 1929, it was dismantled in Carpathian Ruthenia, transported and rebuilt in the Kinsky Garden in Smíchov in Prague 5. On October 28, 2020, the church burned down.
39. svatý Václav
The Church of St. Wenceslas in Nusle is a Roman Catholic parish church. The neoclassical church was built in the year of the promotion of Nusle to a royal town by Emperor Franz Joseph I (1898) as part of the school complex in Svatoslavova Street in Nusle. It is located on the corner of Vladimírova and Pod Vilami 333/1 streets, facing the adjacent park in the Prague 4-Nusle district.
40. Místo letecké nehody 1975
Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 450, JP 450, was an international charter flight from Tivat in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to Prague, Czechoslovakia which crashed in the Prague suburb of Suchdol on October 30, 1975, at 09:20 AM. The McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 with 115 passengers and 5 crew on board descended, under Instrument Meteorological Conditions (IMC), below defined Minimum Descent Altitude (MDA) during the final approach to Prague Ruzyně Airport RWY 25, entered a gorge above Vltava river, and was unable to outclimb the rising terrain. 75 of the 120 occupants died during the crash itself while 4 others died later in hospital. The accident remains the worst aviation disaster on the Czech Republic soil.
41. Our Lady Victorious
The Church of Our Lady of Victories, also referred as the Shrine of the Infant Jesus of Prague, in Malá Strana, the "Lesser Quarter" of Prague, is a church governed and administered by the Discalced Carmelites.
Wikipedia: Church of Our Lady of Victories (EN), Website, Website, Heritage Website
42. Vávrova vyhlídka
The Braník Rocks are a natural monument in Prague-Braník, which was declared on April 29, 1968. The Braník Rocks form the western slope of Dobeška Hill with a former quarry on the right bank of the Vltava River in Braník, near the Přístaviště public transport stop. They are bordered on the east by Na Dobešce Street, on the west by Modřanská Street, on the north approximately by Vysoká cesta, Nad lomem Street, and on the south by Stará cesta Street, which separates them from Školní vrch. The protected area occupies an area of 9.1 hectares at an altitude of between 190 and 264 metres, including the so-called School Hill and the Branické Rocks themselves with the Dobeška Forest Park. The protected area is administered by the Prague City Hall.
43. Villa Müller
The Villa Müller is a Modernist villa in Prague, Czech Republic built in 1930. It was designed by Adolf Loos as a residence for František Müller, co-owner of the Kapsa-Müller construction company from Pilsen.
44. Divadlo Na Jezerce
The Na Jezerce Theatre (DNJ) is located in Prague 4 – Nusle in the Jezerka Park, in a classicist building of a former homestead, where Czechoslovak Television was also located in the past. The building was renovated between 1999 and 2004. The area of the homestead has been registered in the state list of cultural monuments since 1975.
45. svatý Jiří
St. George's Church in Hloubětín is a Roman Catholic parish church in Prague, Czech Republic. It is located in Hloubětínská Street in the cadastral area of Hloubětín in the Prague 14 district. It is a Gothic single-nave church with a number of neo-Gothic modifications. The church is the main church of the Hloubětín parish and is administered by the Order of the Knights of the Cross with the Red Star. In 1958 the church was declared an immovable monument.
46. Portheimka
Portheimka or Dientzenhofer Palace or Bukvojka is a Baroque summer palace located in the Smíchov district of Prague. It is protected as a cultural monument of the Czech Republic. At present, Portheimka is used as a gallery. The summer palace is connected to the Portheimka garden.
47. Narození Panny Marie
The Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary in Prague 4–Michle is a Baroque Roman Catholic parish church, originally built as the Chapel of the Virgin Mary and the Fourteen Holy Helpers in 1724. Near the church is the building of the Michel parish, through which he is spiritually administered. The church is protected as an immovable cultural monument of the Czech Republic.
48. Břevnovský klášter
Břevnov Monastery is a Benedictine archabbey in the Břevnov district of Prague, Czech Republic. It was founded by Saint Adalbert, the second Bishop of Prague, in 993 AD with the support of Bohemian Duke Boleslaus II. The first Benedictine male monastery in Bohemia, it also has the oldest tradition of beer brewing in the Czech Republic. Brewing was interrupted several times in the history, but up to today, the Břevnov Monastery Brewery brew its beer here.
49. Panna Maria Vítězná
The Church of Our Lady Victorious at White Mountain in Řepy in Prague 17 is a place of pilgrimage near the site of the Battle of White Mountain. Located north of Karlovarská Street and southeast of the White Mountain itself in the cadastral area of Řepy, it is also one of the most important monuments of this district. The pilgrimage site with the Church of Our Lady Victorious has been a national cultural monument since 2018.
Wikipedia: Kostel Panny Marie Vítězné (Bílá hora) (CS), Heritage Website
50. Nový hrad
Nový hrad near Kunratice is a ruin of a royal Gothic castle in the Kunratice Forest on a wooded promontory surrounded by the Kunratický Brook. It is located in Prague's Kunratice district. The ruins have been protected as a cultural monument since 1965.
51. Kolovratský palác
The Kolowrat Palace in Valdštejnská Street is a late Baroque palace by Ignác Jan Nepomuk Palliardi in Valdštejnská Street in Prague's Lesser Town. The palace is part of the seat of the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic and is adjacent to the Small Fürstenberg Palace and the Kolowrat Garden, which is part of the complex of Palace Gardens under Prague Castle. The palace has been a cultural monument since 1964; It is also part of the national cultural monument Seat of the Parliament of the Czech Republic.
52. Primátor Jan Podlipný
Jan Podlipný was a Prague lawyer, mayor of Prague (1897–1900) and member of the Czech Provincial Assembly for the Young Czech Party, the first mayor of the Czech Sokol Community (1889–1906). He organized the Collection of Laws concerning the state law of the Kingdom of Bohemia (1882) and was also the executive director of the Lawyers' Union. He was a man of rare character and noble morals. His wife was an important official of the association, Anna Podlipná.
53. zámek Koloděje
Koloděje Chateau is a castle rebuilt into a Baroque chateau in Koloděje in Prague. It is located in the Prague-Koloděje district near the eastern outskirts of Prague. It was built near the core of the former village of Koloděje in the entrance part of the extensive Koloděj Game Reserve reserved in the direction of Hájek. The chateau is protected as a cultural monument of the Czech Republic.
54. Jan Hus Memorial
The Jan Hus Memorial stands at one end of Old Town Square, Prague in the Czech Republic. The huge monument depicts victorious Hussite warriors and Protestants who were forced into exile 200 years after Hus in the wake of the lost Battle of the White Mountain during the Thirty Years' War, and a young mother who symbolises national rebirth.
55. Nová libeňská synagoga
The New Libeň Synagogue is located in Prague 8 at the Palmovka crossroads. Today, it is sporadically used for cultural purposes, several times a year it is used by members of the Prague Jewish community, mainly by the Czech Union of Jewish Youth, for its original purpose, i.e. for worship, most recently for the celebration of the Passover holiday in the spring of 2019/5779.
56. Nalezení svatého Kříže
The Baroque Church of St. Cross and St. Helena is located in Prague-Stodůlky in the part called Háje, outside the built-up area, on the southern side of the railway line 122 between the Praha-Stodůlky stop and the Praha-Zličín railway station, about 150 metres west of the railway bridge over Jeremiášova Street, above the Bílý Beránek bus stop in Za Hájčí dvorcem Street, south of Pod viaduktem Street, the rear side of which is on the opposite side of the railway line. A gravel path leads around the church from Jeremiášova Street to the allotment gardens and to the Háje courtyard. A road leads from Hájčí dvůr to the church. The church is protected as a cultural monument of the Czech Republic.
57. The House of the Mother of the Suicide
The House of Suicide and the House of Mother Suicide is the works of art on the border of sculptures and buildings of American architect John Hejduk. They are dedicated to Jan Palach, who burned himself on 16 January 1969 in the upper part of Prague's Wenceslas Square in Prague. Inspired Hejduk became a poem David Shapiro entitled Jan Palach Funeral from 1969. For the first time, a group of students of Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta under the leadership of James Wiliamson realized sculptures and placed them in the Hall of Institute. In September 1991, during his visit to Prague, John Hejduk donated sculptures to President Václav Havel and the Czechoslovak people. Their wooden mock -ups were built at Prague Castle on that occasion, from where they were removed after 2000. Since then, several times have been considered to be the definitive placement of sculptures, for example in the Czech Technical University in Prague 6. They were finally made from steel in 2015 and located in Prague's Alšovo nábřeží. The edge of the square ground plan of both buildings has a length of 2.7 meters, the height including tips is 7.3 meters. The ceremonial unveiling took place on 16 January 2016 in the presence of Hejduk's daughter Renata.
58. Operace Anthropoid
The Operation Anthropoid Memorial is a monument in Libeň, Prague that commemorates Operation Anthropoid, an ambush on senior Nazi official Reinhard Heydrich by Czechoslovakian partisans on 27 May 1942 which resulted in his death one week later.
59. Nová scéna Národního Divadla
The New Stage of the National Theatre is a modern postmodern theatre building that was built in Prague's New Town on Národní třída in 1977–1983. It is also sometimes referred to as Brutalist. In 2021, the New Stage building was declared a cultural monument.
60. Nerudova Street
Nerudova is a street in the Lesser Town in Prague 1 that runs from the upper or northwest corner of Malostranské Square in a westerly direction up to Prague Castle. It is one of the most interesting streets in Prague for tourists. It is part of the former Royal Route, where the coronation procession of Czech kings used to cross the Charles Bridge to the Castle. At the upper end, it branches off into Ke Hradu and Úvoz streets. From this place, the Town Hall Stairs also go up in a north-westerly direction.
61. Barrandovské skály
The Barrandov Rocks are a national natural monument on the left bank of the Vltava River, on the southwestern outskirts of the capital city of Prague. The care of the Barrandov Rocks National Nature Monument is entrusted to the Central Bohemia Regional Office of the Nature Conservation Agency of the Czech Republic.
62. Saint John of Nepomuk
The Church of St. John of Nepomuk, sometimes also the Military Church, is a Baroque church at the Ursuline Monastery by Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer. The church is located on the corner of U kasáren and Kanovnická streets in Prague's Hradčany, approximately 200 meters from Hradčanské Square, near Nový Svět.
Wikipedia: Kostel svatého Jana Nepomuckého (Hradčany) (CS), Heritage Website
63. Topičův dům
The Topič House, also known as the Topič Salon or the U Topičů House, is a gallery and former publishing house in Prague 1, in the Old Town district of Národní třída, connected to house No. 339/11. To this day, it draws on its rich history and is considered the longest-running private gallery in Prague.
64. Prague Public Transport Museum
The Museum of Public Transport in Prague was opened in May 1993 by the Prague Public Transport Company in the Střešovice depot in connection with the termination of its regular operation in 1992. Vehicles from the museum's collections are protected as technical monuments, and the depot itself was declared a technical monument at the end of 1991.
Wikipedia: Muzeum městské hromadné dopravy v Praze (CS), Website
65. National Museum of Agriculture
The National Museum of Agriculture in Prague, Letná, is located in Kostelní Street in the Prague 7 district. The functionalist building in the immediate vicinity of the National Technical Museum is also the main exhibition building and the administrative headquarters of the institution, which has a number of other workplaces where individual sub-collections and scientific curatorial workplaces are located.
66. Saint Nicholas
The Church of Saint Nicholas is a Baroque church in the Lesser Town of Prague. It was built between 1704 and 1755 on the site where formerly a Gothic church from the 13th century stood, which was also dedicated to Saint Nicholas. It has been described as the greatest example of Prague Baroque.
Wikipedia: St. Nicholas Church (Malá Strana) (EN), Heritage Website
67. svatý Norbert
The Church of St. Norbert in Prague-Střešovice is a Roman Catholic parish church in Střešovice, Prague 6. The Neo-Romanesque church stands on the hill of the Prague Plateau at an altitude of about 340 m. Its tower is the dominant feature and at the same time the highest point of this district. The church is protected as a cultural monument.
68. Saint Bartholomew
The Church of St. Bartholomew in Prague is a high Baroque church in the Old Town of Prague 1. The church consecrated to the Apostle st. Bartholomew is located near the defunct medieval city walls in today's Bartolomějská Street. The church was built between 1726 and 1731 according to the design of architect Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer.
69. svatý Václav
The Church of St. Wenceslas in Prosek is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Prosek district of Prague. This Romanesque building is its oldest architectural monument. It was built on the border of the plateau and the slope of the Rokytka valley, probably before the establishment of today's settlement, and during its existence it underwent a number of reconstructions.
70. svatý Jan Nepomucký na Skalce
The Church of St. John of Nepomuk at Skalka is a Roman Catholic church in Prague, New Town, Vyšehradská Street. The church was built in the 30s of the 18th century by the Prague architect Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer and is an important monument of the Czech dynamic Baroque. Since May 3, 1958, the church has been a registered cultural monument under number 40104/1-1224.
71. Saint Wenceslas
The Church of St. Wenceslas in Smíchov is a Roman Catholic parish church on 14th October Square in Smíchov, Prague. The Neo-Renaissance three-nave basilica with two fifty-meter towers is consecrated to the Czech patron saint St. Wenceslas. It was built between 1881 and 1885 according to the plans of architect Antonín Viktor Barvitius. Ludvík Šimek and Stanislav Sucharda participated in the sculptural decoration, the paintings, mosaics and stained glass windows were designed by František Sequens, Josef Matyáš Trenkwald, Maxmilián Pirner and Zikmund Rudl. The exterior of the building is one of the most important examples of Czech Neo-Renaissance architecture, the interior is conceived in the style of an early Christian Roman basilica.
72. svatý Jan Křtitel Na prádle
The Church of John the Baptist Na Prádle is a Romanesque-Gothic church first mentioned in 1142 in the southern part of the Lesser Town in Prague 1, in the lap of Říční and Všehrdova Streets, near the Devil's Stream and Kampa Island. The church is protected as a cultural monument of the Czech Republic. The name reminds us that the church served as a laundry after its abolition. Today it serves as a parish church of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church.
Wikipedia: Kostel Jana Křtitele Na Prádle (CS), Heritage Website
73. Malý Fürstenberský palác
The Small Fürstenberg Palace is a small building in the late Baroque style at 12 Valdštejnská Street in Prague's Lesser Town. The palace was created by merging older buildings under the Kolowrat Garden and is connected to the rear wing of the Kolowrat Palace. Both palaces are part of the seat of the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic, which is a national cultural monument. The palace itself has been a protected monument since 1964.
74. Jan Bouchal
Bike to Heaven is a monument dedicated to the promoter of urban cycling, Jan Bouchal, who died in a collision with a car that police investigated he caused, and all other cyclists who died in traffic accidents in Prague. It consists of a fourteen-meter-high street lamp on which a bicycle pointing to the sky is suspended vertically at a height. The whole monument is "silver-plated" with palladium leaf and the wheel and the top of the lamp can rotate in the wind. The memorial is located at the busy Prague intersection of Dukelských hrdinů Street and Kapitána Jaroše Embankment, in the place where Jan Bouchal was fatally injured in a traffic accident in 2006 during a collision with a car. The author of the monument is the sculptor Krištof Kintera, the monument was unveiled on September 9, 2013, after seven years of preparations. It was initiated by the Auto*Mat association and financed from a public collection announced by this association.
75. Petřín
Petřín is a hill in the centre of Prague, Czech Republic. It rises 327 m above sea level and some 130 m above the left bank of the Vltava River. The hill, almost entirely covered with parks, is a favorite recreational area for the inhabitants of Prague. The hill is featured prominently in Franz Kafka's early short story "Description of a Struggle" and briefly in Milan Kundera's novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
76. svatý Václav
The Church of St. Wenceslas is located in the middle of the Bohnice psychiatric hospital opposite the main entrance. It is an important work of the architect and designer Václav Roštlapil, who is also the author of the Straka Academy – the seat of the government of the Czech Republic. The church is built in the Art Nouveau style and the construction work was carried out by the company of the prominent First Republic businessman and politician Otakar Nekvasil. Despite the historical circumstances, the church currently serves its original purpose.
77. Maisel Synagogue
The Maisel Synagogue is a Jewish congregation and synagogue, located in the former Jewish quarter of Prague, in the Czech Republic. The synagogue was built at the end of the 16th century in the Gothic Revival style. Since then its appearance has changed several times. The synagogue belongs to the Jewish Community of Prague and is administered by the Jewish Museum in Prague as a part of its exhibitions.
78. svatý Antonín Paduánský
The Church of St. Anthony of Padua in Holešovice is a Roman Catholic parish church built between 1908 and 1911 in the pseudo-Gothic style according to a project by architect František Mikš. It is located on Strossmayer Square in Prague 7-Holešovice on the territory of the former village of Bubny. Since 2015, it has been protected as an immovable cultural monument.
79. Smíchovská synagoga
The Smíchov Synagogue is a former Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at Stroupežnického 32, Smíchov, in Prague, in the Czech Republic. Completed in 1863, the former synagogue was remodelled in 1931 in the Functionalist style. After the World War II, the building was used for secular purposes because the Smíchov Jewish community ceased to exist in the Shoah. Since 1998, the building has been used as an archive of the Jewish Museum in Prague.
80. National Technical Museum
The National Technical Museum (NTM) in Prague is the largest institution dedicated to preserving information and artifacts related to the history of technology in the Czech Republic. The museum has large exhibits representing approximately 15% of its total collection. The museum also manages substantial archives consisting of approximately 3,500 linear shelf meters of archival material and about 250,000 books. The museum was founded in 1908 and has been in its current location since 1941.
81. svatý Haštal
St. Castulus church is a Gothic church with Romanesque and Baroque elements. It is located on the Castulus square, in Old town near Convent of Saint Agnes. It is the only church in the Czech Republic consecrated to Saint Castulus.
Wikipedia: Saint Castulus Church, Prague (EN), Heritage Website
82. Šítkovská vodárenská věž
The Šítkovská Water Tower, also known as the Upper New Town Water Tower, is a water tower from the end of the 15th century on the right bank of the Vltava River in Prague's New Town, in the immediate vicinity of today's building of the Mánes Association of Fine Artists, not far from Jirásek Square in the area of the former Šítkovské mills.
83. Panna Marie Matka ustavičné pomoci
Church of Our Lady Mother of Perpetual Help and St. Kajetána, also called U Kajetánů, is a Roman Catholic monastery church in Nerudova Street in Prague 1 in the Lesser Town. It was built together with the monastery of the Theatines. Together with the monastery, the church has been protected as a national cultural monument since 1964.
Wikipedia: Kostel Panny Marie Matky ustavičné pomoci (Praha) (CS), Website, Heritage Website
84. Old Castle Stairs
The Old Castle Stairs are a public road, intended only for pedestrians, which connects the Lesser Town district with the eastern part of Prague Castle in the Prague 1 district, with the border between Hradčany and Malá Strana actually running at their upper end on the edge of the observation deck at the eastern gate of Prague Castle.
85. Betlémská kaple
The Bethlehem Chapel in Žižkov is a Cubist building serving as a parish church of the Žižkov congregation of the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren. It is located in Prokopova Street inside a block of apartment buildings.
86. Semafor
Semafor is a theatre in Prague, Czech Republic, established by Jiří Suchý and Ferdinand Havlík in 1959. Suchý has performed there for many decades and is the current owner. The theatre was a starting point for many famous Czech musicians, including Karel Gott and Hana Hegerová.
87. Stětí svatého Jana Křtitele
The Church of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist in Dolní Chabry is a Romanesque branch church standing on a small hill of Bílenecké Square in Prague-Dolní Chabry. It is a Romanesque rectangular church with an apse and Romanesque paintings. Below the church, the foundations of three older sanctuaries have been preserved, of which the rotunda had a floor covered with relief-decorated tiles.
Wikipedia: Kostel Stětí svatého Jana Křtitele (Dolní Chabry) (CS)
88. Děvín
Děvín is a prominent hill in Prague above the left bank of the Vltava River, on the border of Hlubočepy and Radlice. The area is part of the Prokopské and Dalejské Valley Nature Parks, the peak falls within the Prokop Valley National Nature Reserve. On the northern side of the hill there is a natural monument Ctirad, from the south, east and north the hill is bordered by the curve of the railway line Prague Semmering.
89. Nanebevzetí Panny Marie
The Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary is a Roman Catholic church built on a small hill in Prague 4-Modřany. The church is surrounded by the Modřany cemetery and in its immediate vicinity there is also a rectory building.
Wikipedia: Kostel Nanebevzetí Panny Marie (Modřany) (CS), Website
90. Saint Apollinaire
The Church of St Apollinaire is located in New Town in Prague in the street Apolinarska on the hill called Vetrov. This Gothic church was built approximately between years 1360–1390. The church was established by Charles IV in 1362. Nowadays Roman Catholic Church is located here but it was administrated also by the Chemin Neuf community. The church is protected as a cultural heritage since 1958.
91. Letná Park
Letná Park is a large park on Letná hill, built on a plateau above steep embankments along the Vltava River in Prague, Czech Republic. Letná's elevation and location afford commanding views of the Prague Old Town.
92. svatá Anna
St. Anne's Church in Prague 3-Žižkov is a Roman Catholic branch church from 1911. It was built in the style of the so-called Beuron Art Nouveau according to the project of architect Eduard Sochor. Church of st. St. Anne's Church is a branch church of the Žižkov parish at the Church of St. Procopius.
93. Českobratrská modlitebna
The Evangelical Church at the Parish Congregation of the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren is a sacral building built between 1930 and 1931 in Prague's Smíchov, in Na Doubkových Street. The author of its ideological design was Filip Křížek, whose son Jaroslav designed the building. However, the congregation did not have enough funds for the construction of the church, so it decided to issue lottery tickets, the proceeds of which helped to cover part of the costs. Nevertheless, the congregation went into debt and paid off the installments until the Second World War. The ceremonial opening of the new church took place on September 28, 1931 and the first sermon was delivered by university professor František Bednář. At the beginning of the 21st century, the members of the congregation considered a major reconstruction of the interior of the house. Although the representatives of the choir initially chose the design by architect Hana Seho, it did not gain the support of the other members of the choir and was therefore abandoned. Another tender resulted in a proposal from the MCA studio, which is finally implemented.
94. Občanská plovárna
Today, the Civic Swimming Pool is only a listed building between the Vltava's Kosárkovo Embankment and the "inland" section of Edvard Beneš Embankment Street in Prague, between the Straka Academy in the Lesser Town and Čech Bridge. The Civic Swimming Pool and the nearby Chapel of St. Mary Magdalene are more or less the only buildings that stand in a small strip of Holešovice belonging to the Prague 1 district, their address is often given as the Lesser Town. The original swimming pool, called the Military Swimming Pool after the foundation of the Civic Swimming Pool, was already in the territory of the Lesser Town, on the site of today's Straka Academy.
95. Saint Stephen
The St. Stephen's Church is located in Štěpánská street in Prague 2, New Town. It is a church from the second half of the 14th century, which was built near the Romanesque St. Stephen rotunda. The church was dedicated to St. Stephen, traditionally regarded as the first martyr of Christianity, who was, according to the Acts of the Apostles, a deacon in the early church at Jerusalem who aroused the enmity of members of various synagogues by his teachings. And then rotunda was dedicated to St. Longin.
96. Nejsvětější Trojice
The Church of the Holy Trinity in Spalena Street in Prague's New Town is a Baroque three-nave building with a tower from 1713 built according to the project of Octavio Broggio as part of the later abolished monastery of the Trinitarian Order, or the Order of the Holy Trinity for the Redemption of Captives, a Catholic order whose mission at that time was primarily to ransom Christians from Turkish captivity. The church is protected as a cultural monument and is located in the immediate vicinity of the Faculty of Education of Charles University. At the end of 2005, the local Roman Catholic parish was abolished and the church was given to the use of Slovak Greek Catholics.
Wikipedia: Kostel Nejsvětější Trojice (Praha, Spálená ulice) (CS), Diocese, Heritage Website
97. Panna Maria pod Řetězem
The Church of Our Lady under the Chain is a Roman Catholic monastery church attached to the Commandery of the Order of St. John. It is the torso of an unfinished larger medieval Maltese temple, begun in the Romanesque style. The present church is only the chancel of the intended temple. Together with the neighbouring buildings of the Lesser Town Maltese Commandery, it is protected as a cultural monument. It is located in Lázeňská Street in Prague 1 in the Lesser Town.
Wikipedia: Kostel Panny Marie pod řetězem (CS), Heritage Website
98. Woodrow Wilson
The Woodrow Wilson Monument, created by Czech-American sculptor Albin Polasek, is installed outside Praha hlavní nádraží in Prague, Czech Republic. It was unveiled in October 2011, and honors the 28th president of the United States, Woodrow Wilson.
99. svatý Vojtěch
The Church of St. Adalbert in Prague 8-Libeň is a wooden Art Nouveau sacral building from 1904 to 1905 by architect Emil Králíček, who worked in the design office of builder Matěj Blecha. It currently serves the Roman Catholic Church and is a parish church. The church is located in the immediate vicinity of the Libeň Sokol Hall in U Meteoru Street.
100. Czech Museum of Music
The Czech Museum of Music is a specialized part of the National Museum in Prague, focusing on materials with musical and instrumental themes. It is located in the rebuilt former Church of St. Mary Magdalene at Karmelitská 388/2 and 4, Újezd 388/50, Hellichova 388/10, Malá Strana, Prague 1.
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