Prague

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Saint Nicholas (Little Quarter) (View of Prague from Tower)

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Old Town Square Photoset #1 (description)

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The Old Town Square had many interesting buildings. A few are mentioned here (source: Eyewitness Travel Guides PRAGUE)

  • The Astronomical Clock

    • The Town Hall aquired its first clock at the beginning of the 15th century. In 1490, when it was rebuilt by a master clockmaker called Hanus, the councillors are said to have be so anxious to prevent him from recreating his masterpiece elsewhere, that they blinded the poor man. Though it has been repaired many times since, the mechanisim of the clock we see today was perfected by Jan Taborsky between 1552 and 1572. (More Info...)

  • Church of St. Nicholas

    • There has been a church here since the 12th century. It was the Old Town's parish church and meeting place until Tyn Church was completed in the 14th century. After the Battle of the White Mountain in 1620 the church became part of a Benedictine monastery. The present church by Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer was complete in 1735. (More Info...)

  • Churhc of Our Lady Before Tyn

    • Dominating the Old Town Square are the maginificant multiple steeples of this historic church. The present Gothic church was started in 1365 and soon became associated with the reform movement in Bohemia. From the early 15th century until 1620 Tyn was the main Hussite church in Prague. (More Info...)

  • Old Town Hall

    • One of the most striking buildings in Prague is the Old Town Hall, established in 1338 after King John of Luxemburg agreed to set up a town council. Over the centuries a number of old houses were knocked together as the Old Town Hall expanded, and it now consists of a row of colourful Gothic and Renaissance buildings, most of which have been carefully restored after heavy damage inflicted by the Nazis in the 1945 Prague Uprising.

  • Statue of Jan Hus

    • At one end of the Old Town Square stands the massive monument to the religious reformer and Czech hero, Jan Hus. Hus was burnt at the stake after being pronounced a heretic by the Council of Constance in 1415. (More Info...)