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The snow-white “water palace” decorating the riverbank in Podolí belongs to the most interesting works by architect and later also rector of Czech Technical University, Antonín Engel. The new modern Podolí waterworks, built in 1927 to 1929, belonged to our biggest reinforced concrete buildings, and we think that we should mention it on our website because we consider it the most beautiful industrial building in Prague.
The building represents monumental neoclassic architecture composed into compact blocks, and its origin constituted the beginning of modern water purification in the capital city.
Today, however, the Podolí waterworks, with its production of 12 % of drinking water for Prague, is the smallest waterworks, and it serves rather as a backup source in case of a breakdown of the waterworks in Kárané or at Želivka.
After the first restoration of the building, a new Museum of Prague Water Industry was established here in 1952 which you can still visit in the old filtration section of the waterworks.
You can visit the museum only by appointment at phone no. 272 172 345. Admission free.
The building represents monumental neoclassic architecture composed into compact blocks, and its origin constituted the beginning of modern water purification in the capital city.
Today, however, the Podolí waterworks, with its production of 12 % of drinking water for Prague, is the smallest waterworks, and it serves rather as a backup source in case of a breakdown of the waterworks in Kárané or at Želivka.
After the first restoration of the building, a new Museum of Prague Water Industry was established here in 1952 which you can still visit in the old filtration section of the waterworks.
You can visit the museum only by appointment at phone no. 272 172 345. Admission free.
May
23
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Temperature: 23.9°C
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Temperature: 23.9°C
Conditions: Clear
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Wind Direction: NNE
