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The New Town

Charles IV's fourteenth-century extension, the 1989 boulevard and the arcade with the hanging horse.

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Wenceslas Square
Photograph: SteinundBaum / CC BY-SA 4.0

Day 1

Starts from Můstek (Wenceslas Square) · 5h 30m at the sights, 41m travelling · 3.3 km

Areas: Nové Město

  1. Wenceslas Square — Not a square but a boulevard, and the stage for 1968 and 1989 (30m)
  2. Lucerna Palace — An arcade of 1920s glass and marble, with a horse hanging upside down (40m)
  3. National Museum — The neo-Renaissance pile at the top of Wenceslas Square (2h)
  4. New Town Hall — Where the first defenestration of Prague happened in 1419 (40m)
  5. Charles Square — The largest square in the city, laid out by Charles IV and now a park (30m)
  6. Emmaus Monastery — A Gothic abbey given two concrete spires after the 1945 bombing (45m)
  7. Dancing House — Gehry and Milunic's curved pair on the embankment (25m)