Wenceslas Square in Prague Wenceslas Square is probably the largest and most important square in Prague. When you look from the top end of the square, it actually looks more like a wide boulevard. Prague and Wenceslas Square are rarely covered with a lot of snow, though it is not ...
Winter in Karlin Karlin is a district of Prague located to the east of the city centre. In less than 30 minutes walking you can get from Old Town Square to Florenc Station, which serves as a gateway to Karlin. From the administrative point of view Karlin is a part ...
Prague Castle Prague Castle and St. Vitus Cathedral are the dominant features of Prague’s skyline (there are no skyscrapers in Prague city centre). Prague Castle used to be the seat of Czech Kings and today it is the seat of the Czech President. St. Vitus Cathedral is the seat of ...
National Museum in Prague The main building of National Museum (Narodni Muzeum) is the dominant feature of the upper end of Wenceslas Square, one of Prague’s main squares. However, this picture was taken from Washingtonova Street, which goes from the top of Wenceslas Square to Prague Main Railway Station (Hlavni ...
National Museum in Prague The building of National Museum (Narodni Muzeum) is the dominant feature of Wenceslas Square in Prague city centre. National Museum is situated at Wenceslas Square’s upper end, behind the statue of St. Wenceslas. Since summer 2009 National Museum also owns the modern-style building next to its ...
Ujezd, Lesser Quarter, and Vitezna Street This picture was taken from Ujezd, the part of Lesser Quarter (Mala Strana) at the foot of Petrin Hill. Vitezna Street connects Ujezd with Legion Bridge (Most Legii) over the Vltava River and Strelecky Island. There is frequent tram traffic in Vitezna Street and ...
Novotneho Lavka in Prague Novotneho Lavka is a block of historical houses reaching into the Vltava River next to Charles Bridge (you can see a little part of Charles Bridge on the left side of the picture). The place was first mentioned in 1396, when there were several mills. Over ...
Memorial to the Victims of Communism in Prague This Memorial to Communism Victims (Pomnik obetem komunismu) is situated at the foot of Petrin Hill in Ujezd, which is an area in Prague Lesser Quarter (Mala Strana). The sculptures show human figures gradually disintegrating as a symbol of pressure of the ...