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The 14 Most Iconic Landmarks in Prague

14 landmarks with verified facts and stories

Charles Bridge
~5 min

Charles Bridge

Karluv most, 110 00 Prague 1

historyarchitecturebridge

Construction began at 5:31 AM on July 9, 1357 — and that exact time wasn't an accident.

Church of Our Lady before Tyn
~3 min

Church of Our Lady before Tyn

Staromestske nam., 110 00 Prague 1

architecturegothichistory

Those twin spires — 80 meters of blackened Gothic stone bristling with subsidiary pinnacles — dominate the Old Town Square skyline and have done so since the 14th century.

Dancing House
~3 min

Dancing House

Jiráskovo nám. 1981/6, 120 00 Prague 2

architecturecontemporary-artculture

The site where the Dancing House stands was empty for fifty years before anyone built on it.

Franz Kafka Museum
~4 min

Franz Kafka Museum

Cihelná 2b, 118 00 Prague 1

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Franz Kafka was born in Prague on July 3, 1883, lived almost his entire life within a single square kilometer of the Old Town, wrote some of the most unsettling fiction of the 20th century, and asked his friend Max Brod to burn every word of it after he died.

Jewish Quarter (Josefov)
~5 min

Jewish Quarter (Josefov)

Josefov, 110 00 Prague 1

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Prague's Jewish Quarter is the remains of a world that was deliberately erased — twice.

Lennon Wall
~3 min

Lennon Wall

Velkopřevorské nám., 100 00 Prague 1

counterculturestreet-arthistory

John Lennon never visited Prague.

National Theatre
~4 min

National Theatre

Narodni 2, 110 00 Prague 1

architectureculturemusic

The Czechs crowdfunded this building before crowdfunding was a word.

Old Town Square
~5 min

Old Town Square

Staromestske nam., 110 00 Prague 1

historyarchitectureculture

Every revolution, every invasion, every moment that mattered in Czech history — someone was standing in this square when it happened.

Petrin Hill & Tower
~4 min

Petrin Hill & Tower

Petřínské sady, 118 00 Prague 1

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In 1889, a group of Czech tourists visited the World Exhibition in Paris, saw the Eiffel Tower, and thought: we need one of those.

Prague Astronomical Clock
~4 min

Prague Astronomical Clock

Staromestske nam. 1, 110 00 Prague 1

historymedievalengineering

Every hour, a skeleton pulls a rope, twelve apostles parade past two tiny windows, a rooster crows, and hundreds of tourists crane their necks upward in unison.

Prague Castle
~6 min

Prague Castle

Hradcany, 119 08 Prague 1

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The Guinness Book of Records calls it the largest ancient castle in the world, and the numbers back that up: nearly 70,000 square meters, 570 meters long, and more than eleven centuries of continuous use as a seat of power.

St. Vitus Cathedral
~5 min

St. Vitus Cathedral

III. nadvori 48/2, 119 01 Prague 1

architecturegothichistory

They started building this cathedral in 1344 and didn't finish until 1929 — nearly six hundred years of construction, which has to be some kind of European record for a building that nobody could agree was done.

U Fleku Brewery
~3 min

U Fleku Brewery

Kremencova 11, 110 00 Prague 1

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Beer has been brewed on this exact spot since 1499, making U Fleku the only brewery in Central Europe where production has never stopped for more than five centuries.

Wenceslas Square
~4 min

Wenceslas Square

Vaclavske nam., 110 00 Prague 1

historypoliticsculture

It looks like a boulevard, not a square — 750 meters long and 60 meters wide, more Champs-Elysees than piazza.

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