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(Praque Castle view) panorama Pražského hradu
(The Church of Our Lady Before Tyn) Tynsky chram
This church, The Church of Our Lady Before Týn, persent one of the visual dominantsof the Old town Sguare. It's originaly Romanesque church mentioned for the first time in 1135 and belonged to the hospic of foreign merchants in the present Ungelt.An Early Gothic triple-naved church was built in he second half of the 13th century and the constuction of the Týn Church in itś present form started in the middle of the 14th century. Very famous is it's portal facing to Týnská Street as it is a richly sculptural decorated work (with a motiph of sufferig of Christ) of Petr Parléř.The Týn Chur went throught very intensive construction process by the reign of the king George of Poděbrady-he west gable was built, both steeples and so on..
After a fire which demage the church in 1679 the Gothic vault of the main nave was replaced woth an Early Baroque one, the original Gothic vaults of the side naves have been preserved.
In the latter half of the 14th century the Church of Our Lady Before Týn started to be an important center of a Husitte movement.- the reformer preachers as K.Waldhauser and Milíč of Kroměříž or later on Jan Rokycana delivered sermons here.
In the interior we can find an altar painting "Ascension of Our Lady and the holest trinity by K. Škréta (who is author of other paintings too.), sculpture decoration by J.J. Bendl, relief of The family of the Christ by F.M.Brokoff or Late Gothic baldachin by M.Rejsek of Prostějov. Behind the Gothic pulpit is the marble tombstone of the Danish astronomer Tycho de Brahe of 1601. Another tombstones inside belongs to Lucien of Mirandola and Renaissance one of Václav Bérka of Dubá.
(The Old Town Hall) Staromestska radnice
The Old town Hall used to be a center of administrationof the town ond was founded by a privilege grant by king John of Luxembourg on September 1338.Consequently the nearby-standings houses started to be bought up-the Early Gothic house of Wolfrin of Kámen, the Westen house, the House of Mikeš the Furrier,the house At the Cock and the last one-the House By Minute, which has an interesting sgraffito fasade. In the 16th century the whole town block was reconstructed in aLate Gothic style with the participation of architect Matěj rejsek from Prostějov. In the half of 16th century the new tract ot the town hall betwen the Mikeš's and Wolfrin's house was built and provide with a large renessaince window bearing the iscription "Praga caput regni".During the Prague uprising on May 8 1945 the Nazis burned and wholy destroyed the east wings of the Town Hall. Only a fragment of the mansory by the tower ahs been preserved,the remaining space have been left open and tha park was created there.. About 1490 Mater Hanuš of Růže perfected the horologe, due which the Tower became famous. The Holologe is completed with the plate with decoration of Alegiries of Month by J.Mánes. There are 12 figures of saint and apostels who can bee seen every hour in two windows above the Horologe similary as we can hear the crowing of the golden cock at the same time. The figures are the result of the sculpture work of V.Sucharda. On the outer side of the Tower Chapel the original Gothic statue of Our Lady from the 1380 has been preserved and under tham on the ground of the square we can notice 27 white crosses as the recomendation of the execution of leaders of the anti-Hapsburg uprising in 1621. In the Interiors of the Old Town Hall there are famous paintings by V.Brožík. The whole Old Tower is open to the public and privide beautiful view from its gallery. The adjoining ranges of the next standing houses serve as an exhibiton hall. The Old Town Hall is one of the dominants of the Old Town square and is very sought-after tourist atraction.
(Old Town Square) Staromestske namesti
The place where the presenr Old Town sguare is, form the significant centre of settlemnt of this are during the 10th cent. It was round the turn of 12th cent when the collonies joined together round the church of ST.NIcholas and in the near close of trade yard Týn and create one-administrated unit whit the Old Town square in its\'s centre. In the 14th cent the new Old Town hall was in the original house of Wolfrin of Stone was founded, and this fact meant the great uprising of the political importance if the Old Town. The square has been playing the great role in the historical course of history. It was the victim of the estate uprisind after Jan Želevský execution in 1422. It was also before the Old Town hall where the 27 lords and knight were executed after the Battle at White mountain in 1620 (this even is memorated by the 27 white crosses on the ground by the Town Hall). On the turn of the 19th cent the defenestrations for the voting right were situated here, and one of the most important manifestation for the indipendent socialistic republic in 1918 aws situated also here and the balcon of the Kinsky\'s palace was the place where the famous declamation of Clement Gottwald was talked. The Square has tree dominants- the Old Town hall, the CHuirch of ST. NIcholas and Tyn\'s chur as well. Among these we can matter of course find many other interesting monuments here. WE can start by the line of building adjoining the Old TOwn Hall-the House of Wolfrin by the Stone, The westen house, the House of MIkeš, the House by Cock standing in the corner, and HOuse At the minute with the rich decorated sgraffito fasade. All these houses belonged to the Town Hall.On the opposite side we acn find for example HOuse At the GOlden Angel with the statue of St.Florian standing in the corner of its fasade, The House At the Blue star-where the famous restaurant has been settled from its early beginning, The HOuse AT The Red Fox with wall painted interiors, The House At White POny-which has the Romanesguq basemment and belongd to the Lucian of Mirandola, who aws the HUssite bishop in opposite standing Tyn\'s church and is also buried there. In The White POny was also the first music school of Bedřich Smetana housed, what is commemorated by the plaque on the wall. In the entrance hallway of this house is the Gothic ribbed arch by M.Rejsek. The house At stone lamb has the distinct Rešnessaince portal and we acn see its house sign of a lamb above the entrance. The BUilding of Štorch\'s publishing house, built by Bedřich Ohmann, can impress us by its fasade decorated by the figural paintings depicting the Three Kings, made after the cartoons of M.Aleš. The last post on the east side of the square belongs to the HOuse At xhite POny again. The almost whole part of the square\'s side is occupied by the building of the Tyn\'s school. Above its arbour are the large gables, made of in a style of Venice Renessaince in the half of 16th cent. The school creat the lower part of the Tyn\'s church.
On the opposite side of the street-against the Tyn\'s school stands the House at the Stone Bell and next to it the Goldz-Kinsky\'s palace. On the north side of the sqaure we could see the building of the former convent of PAolins, the Barogue house built up by P.I.Bayer and J.D.Canevalle. On the top of the house is a gable decorated with the statues of Christ with angels and the founder of the Paolins Order- František de Paolo by M.V.Jáckel. Nex ti the convent of Paolins is a Art-Nouveau palace of Prague\'s city insurance office, built after a plan by O.Polívka. Its fasade is decorated by the statues of L.Šaloun, or B.Šnirch.In the gable of the hoosu is an alegoric mozaik.The rest of the square, of course apatr from the CHurch of St. NIcholas, is úresented by the new buildings, built up after the Prague\'s clearance. In the middle of the square is situated the monument of Master JAn Hus, the monumental Art-NOuveau group of statues from bronze and stones, made by the sculptor L.Šaloun in 1915 by the occasion of 500 years jubilee of the J.HUs\'s burning to death.
(Municipal Hause) Obecni dum
Municipal house is certainly interesting art-nouveau monument and plenty of tourists came to see it and admire it.. The site of this building has a rich history, in the middle ages it was occupied by a several Gothic houses spreading out near the Old town fortifications. It was the king Wenceslav IV. who bought these houses and built on their place a large court-and removed from the Pargue Castle in 1383. Since this act the place has been used as Royal Court-the seat of Czech rulers throught the whole following century(till the year 1484). After this time the Royal Court was desert for almost two centuries. It was in 1631 when the archiepiscopal seminar was found here, but the palace was wholy destroyed by a big fire which occurred the town at the end of 17th cent.-in 1689. In 1689 the Court was reconstructed and completed with the biulding of the Church of St. Adalbert after a plan by J.B.Mathey. In 1777 the seminary was moved into the Clementinum and the complex then served as a school for cadets. At the beginning of 20th century this military complex was demolished and on it's site in 1906-1912 after a plans of A. Balsanek and O. Polivka the Municipal House was built-in a way a we can see it today. The decoration of Municipal House is a result of a works of artists of famous names-we can mention for example paintings by A. Mucha,M.Svabinsky, M.Ales, J. Preisler, F.Zenisek, mosiac and wall paintings by K.Spilar, statues by L.Saloun or J. Maratka, ornamental decoration by K. Novak and many others....
The interior of the building contains six halls(The Mayor's hall, The Rieger's Hall...), restaurant rooms and offices. In it's center is situated very famous Smetanas hall, in which concerts(e.g.of the Prague Spring Music festival)gatherings or balls take place.
With the Municipal House is also connected an important part of Czech history-it was on January 1918 when the Czech members of parlament proclame the independent state for the first time and the first laws of the new republic were issued here.
Nowadays the Municipal House serves cultural and social purposes and provide catering services.
(Wenceslas square) Václavské náměstí
One of the Prague's biggest and more important sguares is situated in the cultural centre of the city and called Wenceslas sguare, and is 750m length and 60m width. It was founded by Charles IV. in 1348 in connection with the buildind of the New town. Horse market were held here and thats also the reason why the sguare was originaly named The Horse market. It has borne the name of Wenceslas Sguare since 1848. Between the years 1786-1789 there was so-called Hut, a wooden theatre building where the first czech plays were performed. From 1680 a stone statue of St. Wenceslas by J.J.Bendl stood in the centre of teh sguare, but later on it was transferred to Vyšehrad in 1680. situated in the upper part of the sguare, on the site of the present building of the National Museum, was the so-called Horse Gate, formong a part of fortification of the New Town-the gate was demolished in 1875. From the mid-19th cent. the sguare was transforn into a boulevard. Its present park-like apperance dates from the 1980s. The square has been however the scene of many important historical events. in 1848 a national mass was held here which was the beginning of th revolutionary disturbances. on 25 february 1948 Wenceslas Square was setting of a popular manifestation in support of the policy of the Communist party..Going along the sides of square we can meet a planty of Hotels-Jalta, Avion, Moráň, Zlatá Husa, Evropa, ALcrone and other,various cinemas-Broadway,Blaník or Světozor, theatres-ABC ,or such a palace sering for cultural purposes as for example palace Lucerna is. Today is the Wenceslas square favourite place for shopping and various cultural meetings.
(Church of saint Nikolas ) kostel sv. Mikuláše
Situated on the left bank of the river Vltava we can find the Baroque church of St.Nicholas, the church which is considered to be one of the most valuable Baroque structures north of the alps. The site of the present Church was occupied by an original Gothic triple-naved church consecrated to St. Nocholas as well and dating from about 1283. This Gothic Church was completed with a graveyard and a rectory with a school and it was also the place of preachers activity of JAn Milíč of Kroměŕíž, the Hus 's predecessor who was called "the father of the reformation".
Very soon after the BAttle of the Whitte Mountain, in 1625. the emperor Ferdinand II.handed the Church over the Jezuit order, which built its college in the neighbourhood in the following time and the building the new Church was connected with. It was until the years 1704-1711 when Ch. Diezenhofer built a hall-type Church and the work was continued by his son K.I.Diezenhofer. It was in 1755 when the Church was finally completed by A.Lurago with the erection of the belfry tower.(The two Church towers are 79m hight)
The interior of the Church is a bright example of the Hight Baroque style, just the painting of St.Anna situated in the side Chapel have been úpreserved of the original Church. The ceiling fresco above the main nave depicts Celebration of the St. Nicholas and is work of J.L.Kracker, and thanks to its size-about 1500sq. metres is one of the biggest paintings in the Europe. Below the dome with fresco of the Celebration of the Whole Trinity are four hudge statues by F.I.Platzer, representing Church teachers. Inside the Church we can also find the wooden Gothic statue of Our Lady of Foyen, the oldest relic of the Church, brought here by the Jezuits in the middle of the 17th cent. from the well known Marian place of pilgrimage in Belgium.
Worthy of attention in the first side CHapel on the left is a painting of Holy Rood by K. Škréta.The fresco decoration of the Church of St.Nicholas was restored in 1955 and the whole Church underwent costly repair. Nowadays the Church served as a concert hall and is open to the public.
(The Golden Lane) Zlatá ulička
This fable street is situated in to the areal of Prague Castle and is made up of a line of a tiny houses with coloured houses, which are built into the arches of the Castle wall between the New White Tower and the Tower called Daliborka. The Golden Lane dates into the 2nd half of the 16th century , when castle marksmen and gold-beaters settled here. Originally the Golden Lane was called Goldsmitht Lane after the latter. There are plenty of legents connected with the Golden Lane-the famous one explane the name of the Street by the alchemists employed at the court of Rudolph II., but frankly tehy have never lived there. In the 18th cent. And the 19th cent. The tiny housese were inhabited by the poor. The sorrounding of the Golden Lane has been ispiration for many writers and creative artists. In 1917 the writter Franz Kafka lived here-in the house no.22., the turn of the 1920s and 1930s the poet J. Seifert(bearer of the Nobel prize for literature), lived in the house between the Golden Lane and the Daliborka tower and it was exactly here that J.Seifert wrote his collection of poems „Eight Days“ and „Arrayed in Light“. In the middle of the 20th century the tiny houses of the Lane were repaired after the plans of P. Janák as a remarkable testimony of the life at Prague Castle. Their bright colouring was designed by J. Trnka . Today some of the houses served as bookshops, souvenirs or fashion jewellery. Also situated here is a cafe and snack bar.
(The Basilika of St. George) bazilika sv. JIří
The Basilika of St. Georga, the church situated on the George sguare just behind the Cathedral of St. Vitus, is one of the best-preserved relic of Romanesque architecture in Bohemia. It was founded about 920 and later on-at the end of the 10th cent an adjoining convent was founding in the framework of the church and the church itself was converted in to the triple-basilica. In 1142 the basilica had to be reconstructed after a big fire and at the beginning of the 13th century the lower part of the Chapel of St. Ludmila was built-on to the south tower. At the end of the 17th cent. the basilica got a new Early Baroque fasade, next to which the separate Chapel of St. John of Nepomuk was built. By the archeologicla researches in the middle of the 20th cent. the old mansory of the church from the early 10th cent. and the burials of the first Czech princes of Premyslid dynasty were discovered. The basilica now serves as a concert hall.
The fasade of the church is decorated with a relief of the st. George and with statues of the Prince Vratislav(the founder of the Church) and Princess Mlada. The above portal of the Chapel of St. John of Nepomuk are two statues of amgels by F.M.Brokoff. From the Jiřská Street, where the older original entrance was, is a columned portal from the 16th cent(B.Ried's workshop) and above it there's a copy of Late Gothic relief of ST. George battling with a dragon.(the original portal is housed i the convent). In the interior-in the main nave of the basilica there are the original arcades from the 10th century. In the fron patr of the main nave there are tombs of Premyslid princes-Vratislav I. and Boleslav I. Below the staircase with two branches there's a Crypte wit baroque door grille from the mid-18th cent., the crypt with columns dates from the mid-12th cent. On the vaults of the choir and the apse therer are remainders of the Romanesque and late Renaissance wallpaintings.
In the south side nave are the tombstones of the abesses of the 16th-18th cent.
The Chapel of St. Ludmila was founded in the first half of the 13th cent. and modified in the 14th cent for the body of the saint.The tomb of the St. Ludmila is situated in to the centre of the Chapel is made from the hewn limestones and bears the figures of reclining saints. This tombstone is a work of Parler's workshop. On the arch of triumph there are Late Gothic figures of Saints and on the west wall there are paintings portraiting scenes from the life of St. Ludmila and dating from the end of the 19th cent.
The Chapel of St. John of Nepomuk was built at the beginnigof the 18th cent. and is decorated with a fresco by V.V.Reiner, other wall paintings and statues of St. Adalbert and Norbert.
(The Cathedral of St.Vitus) Katedála sv. Víta
The Cathedral of St. Vitus is the dominante of the Prague Castle and it's construction have taken almost seven centuries. Originaly it was a Romanesque Rotunda of St. Vitus, founded by prince Wenceslas about the year 926 as the court church of the royal Premyslid dynasty and as the cathedral church of prague bishops too. At the end of the 11th cent it was replaced with a triple naved basilica but the remainders of the Romanesque mansory of the rotunda and basilica are situated in the underground part of the present Cathedral and can be reached by means of the staircase from the Chapel of Holy Rood. The Gothic Cathedral was founded by Charles IV. in the connection of raising up of the Prague bishopic in to the archbishopic in 1344. The Cathedral building was designed by the French architect Mathias of Arras and after him the building works were continued by Peter PArler of Gmund in Swabia. The east part of the Cathedral was consecrated in 1385 and in 1392 the foundation stone was laid for the construction of the triple nave, which did not come about, however.
The coming Hussite Revolution brought a halt to the building of the Cathedral and the finished part was closed by means of temporary wall.
The construction of the whole Cathedral was completed as late as the period Romantism in the Late 19th cent among others by J. Kranner, J. Mocker and K. Hilbert. The completed Cathedral is 124m long, the width of the transverse nave is 60m and the height of the vault of the main nave is 34m.
In the exterior of the Cathedral-on the fasade there are statues of Charles IV. and 14 Saints ad busts of the men who are responsible for its completion. On the central doors there are csulptured scenes from the history of the construction of the Cathedral. On the south side of the building there's the so-called "Golden Portal"
, built by P. Parléř,a nd its fron wall is richly decorated with a big mozaic by North Italian artists with the motiph of the Last judgement with the figures ot the Czech patron saints, CHarlis IV. and his wife Eliška. The figural parts of the mozaic are coloured stones and teh background of the picture is of gilded glass cubes. Next to the east there is a covered passage connecting the Cathedral with the older part of thr Prague CAstel. Behind it stands a memorial of St. John Nepomuk by F. I. Platzer. By the eaves of the roofs of the CAthedral there are decorative sculptures in the form of gargoyles.
When we enter the Cathedral we can see a plenty of tracery lattice windows by L.Kysela, M.Švabinský, M.Svolinský,F. Sequenc, S. Libenský and others. In the middle of the height of the Cathedral-above the pillared arcades there is a triphorium running round the whole Cathedral, in the inner parapet containing a gallery of portraits of members of the royal family and persons connected woth the construction of the Cathedral. The busts are works of Parléřs workshop. In front of the hight Neo-Gothic altar there's the Royal Tomb of white marble surrounded by a Renaissance grille. Below the Tombstone there'sthe Royal Crypt, axcessible from the Chapel of the Holy Rood. It contains the sarcophagi of Charles IV. and his consorts, Wenceslav IV., Ladislav Pohrobek, George of Poděbrady, Rudolph II. and the members of Premyslid dynasty.
In the south part of the transverse nave we can find the Chapel of St. Wencesles, built above tthe saint's tomb by P. Parléř. On its waals there are works of members of Master Theodoric's circle and are combined with areas set with semi-precious stones in gilded hall-marking. The upper part of the walls are covered with the paintings of the scenes from the live of St. Wenceskas by the Master of Litoměřice Altar of the early 16th cent. In the Center stands a statue of St. Wenceslas and his tombstone is situated in the Chapel as well. The Chapel also afford the acces to the staircase leading to the coronation chamber , where the Czech coronation jewels are housed.
On the parephet of the Cathedral-between the pillars-there is a large relief depicted the devastation of the Cathedral in 1619.Below the floor of the parapet are tombstones of 14 Prague bishops of the 11th-14th cent. and in the south part of the parapet we can see a silver tombstone of St. John of Nepomuk designed by J.E. Fisher of Erlach and surrounded by balustrade of red marble bearing statues of justice, Strength, Wisdom and reticence and roofed by the baldachin with the figures of angels. Against the tombstone with parapet there's the so-named Royal Oratory.
On the sides of the whole Cathedral there are a lot of chapels-we can name for example: The Chapel of St. Ludmila, The Chapel of Gods tomb and others....
In the main Tower of the Cathedral of St. Vitus there's also the bigges Bohemian bell called Sigismund.
The Cathedral is open to the public and is a popular target of the tourists.
(The Charles Bridge) Karluv Most
The Charles bridge is a national cultural monument connecting two banks of River Vltvava and two of Prague historical cities as well-the Old town with the New Town. Its ancessor was a wooden bridge from the beginning of 12th century. in 1157 the original woden bridge was destroyed by a floods and replaced with a new stone bridge called Judith's bridge as the name of wife of the Czech king Vratislav was. The bridge was built almost on the site of the present Charles Bridge, just a little bit more to the north. The Judith's Bridge had twenty-one arches and was demolished in 1342 by floods too. The lower Lesser Town bridge tower has been preserved of it similary as the tower with gateway , now incorporated in the building of the Monastery of the Nights of the Cross.
The new bridge-originally called Stone or Prague Bridge was built to the order of Charles IV. and Charles Bridge has been call since 1870. The constuction of the bridge started in 1357 under the supervision of P. Parléř, who was also the architect of Old Town Bridge Tower. Its easter fasade is decorated by a rich sculptoral work, the westen fasade was demaged by shooting during the battles agains Swedes in 1648. On the fasade of the Tower we can see a sculptures uf Karel IV. and St. Vitus-the patron of the bridge and a plenty of emblems of the countries which belonged to the Czech Kingdom. It was after an Anti-Hapsburg uprising in 1621 when the twelve heads of twenty-seven executed representatives of uprising were hanged on the tower for about 10 years.
On the second bank of the rivers is the Tower of Judith Bridge(Lesser Town bridge tower) which is originaly Romanesgue prismatic tower built as a prt of fortification in the 12th century. It\'s present outer appearance is a result of a Renaissance reconstruction from 16th century. Just next to stands the Higher Lesser Town bridge, which was built in late Gothic style and nowadays is in the sommer season open to the public.
The Charles Bridge is 520 m long and 10 m wide and it rests on 16 arches. Its decorated with thirty sculptures and groups of statue. The sculptures are mainly of Barogue origin from the years 1683-1714 but lot of them were supplemented by some neo-Gothic and neo-Classical in the 19th century. Some of them have been replaced with copies and originals have been saved in the depositary in the Lapidarium of the National Museum.
The Bribge is popular tourist atraction and in the big part of the year is posible to see there a variety af artists and streetshopers.
(Statues on The Charles Bridge) sochy na moste
Going along the Charles Bridge we can see a range of thirty sculptures and agroups of patron saints. The oldest one is a Cruciphix from 1654 designed by H.Hillger, the other ones has been placed from that time and almost all of them are Baroque. Because of the climate, floods and air polution a lot of these statues were demaged they started beeing replaced by the copies and originals are till today saved in Lapidarium.
Staues:
--left side--
**St.Ives-
M.B.Braun, 1908,
Built by the Charles University
**St.Barbara, Margareth and Elisabeth-
1707, F.M.Brokoff,
**Pieta-
1859,E.Max,
Built by Prague\'s parish
**St.JOseph-
1854, J.Max
**St.Francis Xavier-
1711, F.M.Brokoff, copy,
The original sculpture ordered by the Charles University was destroyed by the floods in 1890, the original is saved in Lapidarium of National Muzeum, it\'s copy was designed by Č.Vosmík.
**St.Christopher-
1857, E.Max,
The sculpture was erected on the site of military office.
**St. Francis Borgia-
1710, F.M.Brokoff
**St.Ludmila-
1730, M.B.Braun,
The sculpture oroginally stood on the rampart of the Prague Castle.
**St.Francis of Assisi-
1855, E.Max,
This statue was placed on the Bridge as a monument to commemorate the surviving of emperor Franz Joseph I the assassination on his person.
**St.VInceent Ferrarius and St. Procopius-
1712, F.M.Brokoff,
Under these group of sculptures is a Statue of Bruncvik on the pillar of the Bridge, designed by L.Šimek and replaceing the older one from the 16th cent.
**St.Nicholas of Tolentino-
1708, J.B.Kohl,
The statue ordered by the Augustinian Convent by teh CHorch of St. Thomas. Behind it there is a staircase leading to the Campa Island, designed in Neo-Gothic style after plan by J. Kranner.
**St.Luidgarde-
1710, M.B.Braun,
The most valuable sculpture of the Bridge, inspired by the Vision of St. Luidgarda by N.Bernini.
**St.Adalbert-
1709, J.M.Brokoff, copy,
It\'s wooden pattern kept in a NAtional Gallery.
**St. Jean de Matha, Felix de Valois and Ivo-
1714, F.M.Brokoff,
The sculpture is famous due the figure of a Turk guarding imprisoned Christians
**St.Wenceslas-
1858, J.K.Bóhm,
Given by the Klar\'s institute of blinds.
--- Right side:---
**The MAdona and St.Bernard-
1709,M.V.Jáckel,
**The Madonna, St.Domenic and Thomas Aquinus-
1708, M.V.Jáckel, copy,the statue ordered by Dominicans.
**The Calvary-
theb gilged corpus was cast in 1629 by Hans Hilger and the stone statue are yb E.Max of 1861. The cross stood here in the 14th cent. Round the Calvary is a golden sign celebrating God as a penalty of a Jude who laughted to the Cross.
**St.Anne-
1707, M.V.Jáckel,
**St.Cyril and Method-
1938, K.Dvořák, this group of statues depicting St.Ignatius by F.M.Brokoff demaged by flood waters in 1890(now housed in a Lapidarium of Czech Museum)
**St. John the Baptist-
1857, J.Max.
**St.Norbert, Wemceslaa and Sigismund-
1853, J.Max
**St.John of Nepomuk-
1683, the second oldest statue of the Bridge, cast by J.W.Heroldt in Nuremberg after a design by M.Rauchmúller and a model by J.Brokoff.
**St. Anthony of Padua-
1707, J.O.Mayer.
**St.Juda Thaddeus-
1708, J.O.Mayer
**St.Augustine-
1708,J.B.Kohl, cast by the Augustinians by the Church of St. Thomas,
**St. Theatin-
1709, F.M.Brokoff. behind the statue there's a wiev on the Prague's Venice on the Campa Island.
**St.Philip Benitus-
1714, M.B.Mandl, a marble statue,
**St.Vitus-
1714, F.M.Brokoff,
**St.Savior and St.Cosmas-
1709, J.O.Mayer, the monument cast by the Charles University.
(The Jubilee Synagogue) Jeruzalemska synagoga
This very untypical building can impress us from the first view thanks to its fasade.. the synagogue was built in pseudo-moorish style in 1906 by A. Richter and it's design mention us to the Arabian decorative colourfull style and Islam very strongly.
(Hill Petrin) Petrin
Petřín is the name of the hill covering the valley of the Lesser Town. On it\'s south slopes have been the grape vines from the 12th till the 18th cent.planted while its north slopes have been covered by the forests. It was also place where the borrow areas for getting the arenaceous marl as the important building material were. From the Strahov monastery to the place called /Újezd gouse famous so-called Hungry wall, built up by CHarles IV in 1360 as a part of Prague\'s fortification. The park design of the hill aws carried uot by the J.Braul. On the site of the park there were The chaples of the Rood way built up yb J.Kranner in 40\'s of the 19th cent. In the space of the park the dominante of the hill- the Petrin vantage was 1891 erected. The tower is 60m hight and was create by the occasion of the LAnd jebilee exhibition as a small copy of Eiffel Tower. Tho top of the hill with the vantage is easy accesible by the cableway. Near the vantage stands the church of St. VAvřinec with the Labyrinth.the pavilon built as small reconstruction of the original Vysehrad\'s entrance gate called Špička. In the Labyrinth is very popular Mirror gallery leading to the room, where the illusive painting The fighting of the Pragues with Sweden on the CHArles Bridge by Aa.Liebscher is. The whole hill of Petřín is formed by the serie of gardens in English park style and is very popular place of rest and strolls.
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