Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #8 in Prague, Czechia

Church of Saints Cyril and Methodius is a Roman Catholic church in the Karlín district of Prague, Czech Republic. It belongs to the largest religious buildings in the Czech Republic. It was constructed in the mid-19th century and it remains one of the most important architectural landmarks from the period of historicism in the country.

Wikipedia: Church of Saints Cyril and Methodius (Karlín) (EN)

The Karlín Synagogue is a former Jewish prayer room in Prague 8-Karlín. It was built in the Neo-Romanesque style in 1861. It is located in Vítkova Street.

Wikipedia: Karlínská synagoga (CS)

The Musical Theatre Karlín is a theatre in the Karlín district of Prague devoted largely to the performance of operettas and musical theatre. Built in 1881, it is now the second largest theatre in Prague after the Prague State Opera.

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The Prague City Museum is a museum serving the capital region of Prague. Its responsibilities include the management and presentation of collections documenting Prague’s past, as well as research into the history of the Czech capital and its presentation to the general public. The main museum building is located in Prague at Florenc (Prague 8, Nové Město, Na Poříčí 1554/52.

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The Army Museum Žižkov is part of the Military History Institute in Prague. It is located in Prague's Žižkov district in the historic buildings of the Liberation Memorial.

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The Ponec Theatre in Žižkov in the Prague 3 district is a stage for modern dance and movement theatre. It is operated by the Tanec Praha civic association.

Wikipedia: Divadlo Ponec (CS), Website

Brotherhood is a sculpture by the Czech artist Karel Pokorný (1891-1962), which became the basis for monuments of the Prague Offensive during World War II. There are such monuments in Prague, Česká Třebová, Saint Petersburg and the Crimea. The sculpture depicts the meeting of a Soviet Red Army soldier and a Czech militiaman in May 1945. Art critics evaluate Brotherhood as one of the best works of socialist realism. This sculpture gained popularity and became a symbol of friendship between the peoples of Russia and Czechoslovakia. Its image was used on stamps, coins, banknotes, etc.

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The Jubilee Synagogue, also known as the Jerusalem Synagogue, is an Orthodox Jewish synagogue, located on Jerusalem Street in the Nové Město district of Prague, in the Czech Republic. It is the largest synagogue in Prague.

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Edison's transformer station in Prague's New Town is located in Jeruzalémská Street near the Church of St. Henry and Kunhuta. It is part of the Prague Heritage Reserve.

Wikipedia: Edisonova transformační stanice (CS)

The Kounice or Kaunický Palace in Panská Street No. 890/7 in the New Town of Prague was built in the Baroque style. It is together with the adjoining garden and the so-called Wittman House is protected as a cultural monument.

Wikipedia: Kounický palác (Nové Město) (CS)

The Powder Tower or Powder Gate is a Gothic tower in Prague, Czech Republic. It is one of the original city gates. It separates the Old Town from the New Town.

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The Museum of Communism, located at V Celnici 4 in Prague, Czech Republic, is a museum dedicated to presenting an account of the post–World War II communist regime in Czechoslovakia, with a focus on Prague.

Wikipedia: Museum of Communism, Czech Republic (EN), Website

The Church of St. Joseph on Republic Square in Prague's New Town is a late Renaissance Capuchin church with an adjacent monastery - the Religious House of St. Joseph. The monastery area and the church are protected as a cultural monument.

Wikipedia: Kostel svatého Josefa (Nové Město) (CS)

Hotel Paris Prague is a 5-star luxury hotel in Prague, Czech Republic. It is located in the centre of Prague in Old Town. It was built in 1904 according to plans of Jan Vejrych. Its architectural style is a mixture of Art Nouveau and Gothic Revival. It featured as a location in Bohumil Hrabal's book I Served the King of England. In 1984 it was declared as a historical monument.

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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.

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The Ungelt Theatre is a private theatre in Prague's Old Town in Týn with an auditorium for less than a hundred spectators.

Wikipedia: Divadlo Ungelt (CS), Website

The House at the Stone Lamb in Prague is a historic building on Old Town Square No. 551/17 in the Prague 1-Old Town district. It has been a cultural monument since 1964.

Wikipedia: Dům U Kamenného beránka (CS), Heritage Website

The House at the White Unicorn, also called the Trčkovský House, is originally a Renaissance burgher house in Prague 1 in the Old Town on Old Town Square 15, modified in 1770 in the late Baroque style. The three-storey house No. 603/I with an arcade has been protected as a cultural monument since 1964.

Wikipedia: Dům U Bílého jednorožce (CS), Heritage Website

The Týn school was a parish secondary school at the Týn Church and a residential house. Two of its buildings, joined into one, No. 604/I, have been preserved at 14 Old Town Square, on the corner of 2 Týnská Street, in front of the Church of Our Lady before Týn.

Wikipedia: Týnská škola (CS), Heritage Website

The Prague meridian passes through the Old Town Square in Prague. Historically, it was defined by the shadow of the Marian Column at high noon.

Wikipedia: Pražský poledník (CS)

The National Gallery in Prague, since 2018 presented under the name National Gallery Prague and abbreviated NGP, is a state organization managing the largest collection of fine arts in the Czech Republic. The gallery was created from a privately initiated picture gallery, which from the end of the 18th century publicly exhibited originally borrowed paintings, and acquired its current character in the first half of the 20th century. It exhibits art from its collections in permanent exhibitions and organized exhibitions in several buildings in Prague and beyond, all of which are important cultural monuments.

Wikipedia: Národní galerie v Praze (CS), Website

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.

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The Old Town Hall in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic, is one of the city's most visited monuments. It is located in Old Town Square.

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Church of Saint Michael the Archangel is a church situated in Prague, Czech Republic. It was built in Romanesque and Gothic style and later rebuilt in Baroque style. The priest and church reformer Jan Hus celebrated masses in the church. The church and adjacent monastery were disestablished during the reforms of the Emperor Joseph II in the 18th century. Later, the buildings served as a warehouse. In the crypt, there are buried rectors of the Prague's University.

Wikipedia: Church of Saint Michael the Archangel in Prague (EN), Heritage Website

The bridge can be: bridge (building) - small bridge Ship bridge - sign of command station on boat ski jump - sports equipment or construction for ski jumps Skokan bridge (aviation) - superstructure on an aircraft carrier for take -off with the help of the STOBAR method dental bridge - type of dental prosthesis Measuring bridge - electrical circuit used to accurately measure quantities: Wheatstone bridge - to measure electric resistance De Saauty bridge - to measure electric capacity Thomson bridge - for measuring very small electrical resistors donkey bridge - verbal or rhetorical turnover more or less appropriately connecting two different topics Redirection bridge - electrical circuit used to rectify the AC current to DC current - bridge rectifier name bridge - street in the center of Prague, connected to the lower part of Wenceslas Square Bridge - the area of ​​the junction of the street Na Můstek, Wenceslas Square and Na Příkopě Street Bridge - Prague metro station Bridge (Šumava) - Šumavská hora, the highest peak of the armor back N-D-S 72 Bridge-Infantry Srub

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A statue of Josef Jungmann is installed in Prague, Czech Republic.

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The Church of Our Lady of the Snows is a Catholic church established in 1347 near Jungmann Square in Prague, Czech Republic. It is operated by the Franciscans and was the site of the murders of the Martyrs of Prague in 1611.

Wikipedia: Church of Our Lady of the Snows (Prague) (EN), Heritage Website

The MacNeven, also known as the MacNeven Palace, or MacNevenovský Palace, also known as the Palacký House, is a historic building at 719/II Palackého Street in Prague's New Town, Prague 1, which connects Vodičkova and Jungmannova Streets, near Wenceslas Square. The building is protected as a cultural monument.

Wikipedia: MacNevenův palác (CS)

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.

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The Náprstek Museum is a museum of Asian, African and Native American art located in Bethlehem Square in Prague, Czech Republic. It is one of several permanent exhibitions of the National Museum. The museum is situated in the former brewing and wine-making compound of U Halanku in the Prague Old Town.

Wikipedia: Náprstek Museum (EN), Website

The Theatre on the Balustrade is situated in Prague, Czech Republic.

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Rotunda of the Finding of the Holy Cross is a Romanesque rotunda in Prague 1, Old Town quarter, on the crossing of Konviktská and Karolíny Světlé street. Its founding is considered after 1125.

Wikipedia: Rotunda of the Finding of the Holy Cross (EN), Heritage Website

The Schirding Palace or Kaňka's House is a Classicist building on the corner of Národní třída No. 16 and Mikulandská Street, in the New Town, No. 118/II, Prague 1. It is protected as an immovable cultural monument.

Wikipedia: Schirdingovský palác (CS)

St. Michael's Church in Jircháře, Prague - New Town near the National Theatre, specifically the New Town street, which is called v Jirchářích. It is the seat of Czech, Slovak and English congregation of the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in the Czech Republic. Its architectural style is not uniform due to alterations in different periods and styles. It is protected as a cultural monument of the Czech Republic.

Wikipedia: St. Michael's Church in Jircháře, Prague (EN), Heritage Website

The Dietrichstein Palace, also called the Walter Palace, is a Neo-Baroque palace that houses the Apostolic Nunciature of the Holy See. It is located in Voršilská Street No. 140/12 in New Town in Prague 1. It is protected as a cultural monument.

Wikipedia: Dietrichsteinský palác (Nové Město) (CS)

The Topič House, also known as the Topič Salon or the U Topičů House, is a building of a gallery and former publishing house in Prague 1, in the Old Town district of Národní třída, connected with house No. 339/11. To this day, it draws on its rich history and is referred to as the longest operating private gallery in Prague.

Wikipedia: Topičův salon (CS), Heritage Website

The Convent of the Ursuline Sisters in Prague is a Baroque complex of convent buildings with two courtyards, a garden and a school for the Ursuline Sisters No. 139/II. It is located at the Church of St. Ursula on Národní třída 8, in Voršilská Street 3, 5 and in Ostrovní Street 11 in Prague's New Town. It has two entrances, the main entrance to the monastery is from across the courtyard from Ostrovní Street, the former fortna and the side (service) entrance is from Národní třída through the gatehouse of the Institute of Endocrinology.

Wikipedia: Klášter voršilek (Praha) (CS), Website, Heritage Website

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 sometimes also referred to as brutalist. In 2021, the New Stage building was declared a cultural monument.

Wikipedia: Nová scéna (Praha) (CS)

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.

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Žofín Palace is a Neo-Renaissance building in Prague, in the Czech Republic. It is a cultural centre, a venue for concerts, balls, conferences and exhibitions.

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The National Theatre is a historic opera house in Prague, Czech Republic. It is known as the alma mater of Czech opera, and as the national monument of Czech history and art.

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Museum Kampa is a modern art gallery in Prague, Czech Republic, showing Central European, and in particular Czech work. The pieces are from the private collection of Meda Mládek, wife of Jan V. Mládek. The museum opened in 2003 and is housed in the Sova's Mills on the eastern bank of the Kampa Island on the River Vltava.

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The Kampa Theatre, formerly the Small Nostic Theatre, is a small theatre in Prague 1 in the Lesser Town. The theatre was founded in 2010. It is located in the area of the Michna of Vacínov Palace in Nosticova Street No. 634/2a. The director of the Kampa Theatre has been Iveta Dušková since 2014.

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Nostic Garden is a small garden near Maltézské náměstí, in the vicinity of Kampa in Prague 1. Together with the Nostic Palace, it is protected as a cultural monument of the Czech Republic.

Wikipedia: Nosticova zahrada (CS)

The Zlomkovský Mill (Maltese, Wendlingerovský) is a former water mill in Prague's Lesser Town, which stands on the left bank of the Devil's Stream. It is protected as an immovable cultural monument of the Czech Republic.

Wikipedia: Zlomkovský mlýn (CS)

The Chotek Palace, Chotek Palace or the burgher house At the Golden Pelican in Prague is an Empire palace located at Hellichova 458/1 in the Lesser Town in the Prague 1 district, in the immediate vicinity of the Jan Neruda Grammar School. It is protected as a cultural monument.

Wikipedia: Chotkův palác (CS)

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, in the Lesser Town, Prague 1.

Wikipedia: České muzeum hudby (CS), Website

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 wedge of Říční and Všehrdova Streets, near Čertovka 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 the parish church of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church.

Wikipedia: Kostel Jana Křtitele Na Prádle (CS), Heritage Website

The Memorial to the victims of Communism is a series of statues in Prague commemorating the victims of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia between 1948 and 1989. It is located at the base of Petřín hill, Újezd street in the Malá Strana or the Lesser Town area.

Wikipedia: Memorial to the Victims of Communism (EN)

The Church of St. Michael the Archangel, also 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 Kinský Garden in Smíchov in Prague 5. On October 28, 2020, the church burned down.

Wikipedia: Chrám svatého archanděla Michaela (Petřín) (CS)