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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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