Colloredo-Mansfeld Palace

Between 1736 and 1737 Giovanni Battista Alliprandi’s renaissance palace was rebuilt in the high baroque style for Prince Paul Henry …

Datum publikace:
4. 1. 2015
Autor článku:
Alex Went

Chodov Fortress

Deep in the southern suburbs of Prague – an area now dominated by highways and housing estates – this thirteenth-century …

Datum publikace:
21. 12. 2014
Autor článku:
Alex Went

Orloj: Astronomical Clock

The exact authorship of the mediaeval clock (‘orloj’) in Prague’s Old Town Square is confused, but it seems to have …

Datum publikace:
7. 12. 2014
Autor článku:
Alex Went

Vila Jitřenka

This villa by the banks of the Botič – currently home to the Prague Gentlemen’s Fly Fishing Club – dates …

Datum publikace:
26. 10. 2014
Autor článku:
Alex Went

St Lawrence (Svatý Vavřinec)

Between the left bank of the river Vltava and Petřín Hill stand two churches dedicated to St Lawrence (Svatý Vavřinec). …

Datum publikace:
5. 10. 2014
Autor článku:
Alex Went

Vinohradská tržnice

The distinctive russet-coloured Vinohradská tržnice (Vinohrady market hall) was constructed on the site of a former machine factory in 1902, …

Datum publikace:
21. 9. 2014
Autor článku:
Alex Went

Bank of the Legions

The Bank of the Legions (Legionářská banka, or Legiobanka) was founded in 1919 in the Siberian city of Irkutsk as …

Datum publikace:
17. 8. 2014
Autor článku:
Alex Went

Clam-Gallas Palace

Descended from a distinguished Austrian family, Count Johann Wenzel (Jan Václav) von Gallas managed an extensive diplomatic portfolio. As well …

Datum publikace:
20. 7. 2014
Autor článku:
Alex Went

State Opera

In the early nineteenth century Prague was home to a substantial number of German speakers, especially among the nobility and …

Datum publikace:
13. 7. 2014
Autor článku:
Alex Went

Statue of Nicholas Winton

Nicholas Winton’s humanitarian work in saving hundreds of Jewish children from the grim certainty of the Holocaust came to light …

Datum publikace:
6. 7. 2014
Autor článku:
Alex Went