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New Town City Hall - Prague - Czech
A gothic complex of buildings from the late 14th and early 15th centuries, rebuilt in the renaissance style in the 16th century. It contains a tower with Our Lady Chapel, two gothic halls with ribbed vaults and a renaissance hall. During 1377 - 1784 the seat of the New Town authorities. On 30th July, 1419, the scene of the defenestration of the Catholic aldermen by Prague Hussites which mardked the beginning of the Hussite revolution.
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Old Jewish Cemetary - Prague - Czech
The Old Jewish Cemetery was established in the first half of the 15th century. Along with the Old-New Synagogue it is one of the most important surviving monuments in Prague?s Jewish Town. The oldest tombstone, that marks the grave of the poet and scholar Avigdor Karo, dates from the year 1439. The cemetery was in use for burying till 1787. Today it contains almost 12,000 tombstones, though the number of persons buried there is much grater. The cemetery was enlarged a number of times in the past. In spite of this the area did not suffice and eart was brought in to add further layers. It is assumed that the cemetery contains several burial layers superimposed on eon top of the other. The picturesque goups of tombstones from various period result from the fact that older stones were lifted up from the lower layers.
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Old Town Square - Prague - Czech
The Spanish Synagogue was built in 1868 on the site of the oldest Prague Jewish house of prayer (""the Old School"") in a Moorish style to a design by Vojtech Ignßtz Ullmann. The synagogue has a square ground-plan with a copula above the central area. The gallery is buil on an iron structure. The stucco arabesque and stylised oriental motifs of the interior are also applied on the walls and in the adornment of the doors, balustrades and gallery. The coloured window panes and interior decoration were designed by architects A. Baum and B. Munzberg and completed in 1893. FrantiÜek èkroup, the composer of the Czech national anthem, was the organist here in the years 1836 - 45. The most significant square of historical Prague. It originated in the 12th century and since then witnessed many events. Beside the Old Town Hall and the Church of Our Lady before Tyn the square has several other dominants, the baroque St. Nicholas church (K. I. Dienzenhofer, 1732 - 1735), the rococo Kinsky palace housing the National Gallery graphic collection, the Stone Bell house - a gothic city palace from the 14th century - now the Municipal Gallery concert and exhibition rooms, and the Memorial to Master Jan Hus sculptured by Ladislav Saloun (1915). The very place where the 27 Czech gentlemen were executed on 21 June, 1621, is marked in the square pavement. The Prague merdidian can be seen not far from there.
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Royal Garden - Prague - Czech
The garden was set up in 1534 and embellished during the time of Rudolf II. The Ball Hall was used as barracks at one time, nowadays it is is an exhibition and concert hall. Accesible to the public only in summer, as well as the other gardens: Rajska, Hartigovska, Na Valech and Na Baste.
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