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Along Charles Street we can get to the Old Town Sąuare, the centre of the Old Town. It is surroundedby bcautifully decorated houses with coloured faęades and gables of all styles. A monumental medieval tower-like building    Vocal

of the housc At the Stone Bell and the Rococo Kinsky Pałace which now houses a graphic collection are the most remarkable. The best known building in the square is the Old Town Hall, though. It was near the town hall that 27    the capi

reprcscntativcs of the anti-Habsburg uprising were executed after the lost Battle of the White Mountain. Tourists cometo    [autske:

sec a horologe with the statues of the Apostles on the tower. The visual dominant of the Sąuare is the Tyn church wherc    fortifia

Danish astronomcr 'łycho Brahc was buried in 1601. The centre of the Sąuare is beautified by the John Huss Monument.    [profisai

Not far from the Sąuare is the Bcthlehem Chapel, the most important centre of the Reformation movementwhere John    the cas

lluss prcached. The Old Town Sąuare was a part of the Royal Route which lead along Celetni and Karlova Street to    convent

Charles Bridgc and the Castle (the coronation ceremony began at Vysehrad).    .*■    [sa:‘kofe

Front the Old Town Sąuare two well-known streets lead: Paris Street, lined with fine houses builtin the late*    [septe],

10th century decorative style, takes us to the Jewish Town. The Jewish community originated in Prague as early as the lOth eentury. Now only a few synagogues (the Old-New Synagogue for example) and the cemetery have remained to the present    tavern,

The other Street, Ccletnń St. leads to the Powder Tower which forms a monumental entrance to the Old Town. Closeto it is the Municipal Housc, in the 14th and 15th centuries the Royal Court, at the tum of this century rebuilt in the late 19th    Excn

century decorative style. The best known of its 6 halls is the Smetana Hall in which concerts of the Prague Spring Musie FestW&l and balls are held. The Na prfkopS Street, now a pedestrian precinct, takes us to the bottom of Wenceslas Sąuit,    1. Tr

the heart of the New Town and present-day Prague. It is a 750 m long boulevard lined with banks, department Stores,    w a

boutiąues, shops, hotels, restaurants, cafes, theatres and cinemas. The uppper end of the sąuare is closed by the    ,

Neo-Renaissance building of the National Museum from the end of the 19th century which contains historical and nafanl    2. W

history collections. In the upper part of the sąuare stands the St. Wenceslas Memoriał, the bronze eąuestrian statuę of    yo

Prince Wenceslas by J. V. Myslbek, a favourite meeting place of tourists. From the bottom of the Sąuare we can goiloog Ni rod ni Street to the river Vltava. On its bank the most beautiful Neo-Renaissance building, the National Theatre, b    * \\

situated. Along the river we co me to YySehrad, once the seat of Czech Princes. Now only a few remains of the castle hw

been preserved on the rock. The oldest construction on Vy§ehrad and in the whole of Prague is the Rotunda of$t Mirto, built in the 1 Ith century. The VySehrad site also contains the Slavin Cemetery, the buriai place of famous personalińes of our cuhural and politica! life.

Apart from the sights mentioned above Prague boasts many morę important institutions, and chamung places, houses, and museums. Among them Charles University, the oldest university in Central and Eastem Europę, theHout of Artists (Rudolfinum), the second most outstanding Neo-Renaissance building in Prague which once hosted the Parliament, and St Agnes Convent which now houses exhibitions of the National Gallery, are woith seeing.

On the outskirts of Prague Troja, a newly reconstructed Baroąue chateau is worth visiting and in the environs.