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Dean Church of the Lords Transfiguration on Mt Tábor
There has been a church here, on the squares northern side, for several centuries. This church dates from the middle of the 15th century and replaced a wooden structure. The basic style is Gothic, though reconstructions over the years have added Renaissance and baroque elements. Th
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Franz Kafka Monument
Commissioned by Pragues Franz Kafka Society in 2003, Jaroslav Rónas unusual sculpture of a mini-Kafka riding on the shoulders a giant empty suit was based on the writers story Description of a Struggle, in which the author explores a fantasy landscape from the shoulders of an acqua
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Diocese Museum
The Diocese Museum, in the former Franciscan monastery (klášter Františkánů), exhibits a fine collection of church statues. The real reason to visit is to see the little St Barbara Chapel (kaple sv Barbory) on the cloisters eastern side; structurally unaltered since the 13th centur
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Miniature Museum
Siberian technician Anatoly Konyenko used to manufacture tools for microsurgery, but these days he prefers to spend 7½ years crafting a pair of golden horseshoes for a flea. See those, as well as the Lords Prayer inscribed on a single human hair, a grasshoper clutching a violin, an
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Prague Castle Picture Gallery
The same Swedish army that looted the famous bronzes in the Wallenstein Garden in 1648 also nicked Rudolf II’s art treasures. This exhibition of 16th- to 18th-century European art, housed in the former castle stables, is based on the Habsburg collection that was begun in 1650 to re
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Hotel Crowne Plaza
For architecture buffs, the impressive silhouette of this huge Stalin-era building in Dejvice will be familiar to anyone who has visited Moscow. Originally called the Hotel International, it was built in the 1950s to a design inspired by a tower of Moscow University, right down to
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Troja Chateau
Troja Chateau is a 17th-century baroque palace built for the Šternberk family and filled with sculptures and frescoes. It houses collections of the Prague City Gallery. There’s free admission to the palace grounds, where you can wander in the beautiful French gardens, watched over
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Lapidárium
An outlying branch of the National Museum and an often-overlooked gem, the Lapidárium is a repository for some 400 sculptures from the 11th to the 19th centuries. The exhibits include Bohemia’s oldest surviving stone sculpture, parts of the Renaissance Krocín Fountain that once sto
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Křižík’s Fountain
Each evening from spring to autumn the musical Křižík’s Fountain performs its computer-controlled light-and-water dance. Performances range from classical music such as Dvořák’s New World Symphony to rousing works performed by Andrea Bocelli, Queen or the Scorpions. Check the websi
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Musaion
This renovated summer palace houses the National Museum’s ethnographic collection, with exhibits covering traditional Czech folk culture and art, including music, costume, farming methods and handicrafts. There are regular folk concerts and workshops demonstrating traditional craft
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Colloredo
Recently taken over by the City of Prague Gallery, the shabby halls of this decaying 18th-century aristocratic palace are being restored as an information centre and exhibition space. Meanwhile you can wander its baroque corridors and visit the grand ballroom – which appeared in Mi
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U Kalicha
This is where the eponymous antihero was arrested at the beginning of Jaroslav Hašek’s comic novel of WWI, The Good Soldier Švejk (which Hašek cranked out in instalments from his own local pub). The pub is milking the connection for all it’s worth – it’s an essential port of call f
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Capuchin Monastery
One of the citys leading attractions is this ghoulish cellar crypt that holds the mummified remains of several city noblemen from the 18th century. Apparently the dry, well-ventilated crypt has the natural ability to turn dead bodies into mummies. Up to 150 cadavers were deposited
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DOX Centre for Contemporary Art
This noncommercial art gallery and exhibition space forms the nucleus of Holešovice’s expanding reputation as one of the city’s more hip districts. The exhibitions highlight a wide range of media, including video, sculpture, photography and painting. You’ll find a cafe and an excel
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Hotel Jalta Nuclear Bunker
Hidden beneath the 1950s Hotel Jalta on Wenceslas Square lies a communist-era nuclear shelter that was opened to the public in 2013. The tour (in Czech, with an English text), led by a guide in period security police uniform, takes in a series of secret chambers; the highlight is t
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Karlín Studios
Housed in a converted factory building, this complex of artists’ studios includes a public art gallery that showcases the best of Czech contemporary art, plus two small commercial galleries. This is the place to come and see what’s happening at the cutting edge of art in the city.
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MeetFactory
David Černý’s ‘Meet Factory’ is a remarkable project that unites artists from around the world to live and create in an abandoned factory south of Smíchovské nádraží. The space is used for exhibitions, happenings, film screenings, theatrical performances and concerts. The location
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Nový Svět Quarter
In the 16th century, houses were built for castle staff in an enclave of curving cobblestone streets down the slope north of the Loreta. Today, these diminutive cottages have been restored and painted in pastel shades, making the New World quarter a perfect alternative to the castl
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Pinkas Synagogue
The handsome Pinkas Synagogue was built in 1535 and used for worship until 1941. After WWII it was converted into a memorial, with wall after wall inscribed with the names, birth dates, and dates of disappearance of the 77,297 Czech victims of the Nazis. It also has a collection of
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Dvořák Museum
The most striking building in the drab neighbourhood south of Ječná is the energetically baroque Vila Amerika, a 1720s, French-style summer house designed by (you guessed it) Kilian Dientzenhofer. It’s one of the city’s finest baroque buildings and now houses a museum dedicated to
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