The Riding School is located in the garden of the early Baroque palace concructed for Albrecht of Waldstein by Italian architects Andrea Spezza and Nicolo Sebregondi. During 2000, the Riding hall underwent extensive reconstruction and now is reopened.
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Today it is the oldest unharmed Jewish cemetery as it survived the Nazi occupation unscathed. The cemetery was founded in the first half of the 15th century. The oldest tombstone, bearing the date of April 25th 1439, is that of Avigdor Kara, a scholar and poet who survived the pogrom of 1389 and wrote an elegy in memory of its victims.
The charm...
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The Petřín park is one of the largest parks in Prague. It was founded in an area that used to be a wood reaching as far as the Bílá Hora. Vineyards were planted here as early as the 12th century.The park was created by the joining up of the Na Nebozízku, Seminářská and Kinská gardens. The gardens...
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Baroque in Bohemia - Permanent Exhibition of the Collection of Old Masters of the National Gallery in Prague
On the three floors of the reconstructed building of the palace, the new permanent exhibition presents about 160 sculptural exhibits and 280 pieces of late Renaissance and Baroque painting, created in the territory of the lands of the Crown...
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The tradition of writing on the walls in the Lesser Town probably first originated on the garden wall of the house belonging to the actor Jan Werich who lived at Kampa and people wrote various messages on the wall of his garden, but also examples of their own works. The flaking walls at Kampa have also become a place for art happenings of several...
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In the densely built-up area of the Old Town, at the corner of Konviktská and Karoliny Světlé streets, there is probably the oldest Prague Romanesque rotunda – Rotunda of Finding of the Holy Cross – Church of the Holy Cross.
In the 17th century, the rotunda belonged to the Dominican order of St. Giles. The chapel was...
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The Petřín funicular was put into operation on July 25th 1891 on the occasion of the Jubilee Exhibition.
It measured 396,5 metres, was operated by hydraulic drive and used to be the longest funicular in Austro-Hungary.
The funicular was modernised in 1932. It was extended to 510 metres and the hydraulic drive was exchanged for electric...
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Everyone passing through the Jiřího z Poděbrad Square will surely notice the modern, unusual church right in the centre of the square. I myself had always just turned my eyes towards this curious, bold building, until one day I entered it to take a better look at the Church of the Sacred Heart. I was enchanted. While on the outside, the...
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