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Strahov Library
It isn't often the splendour and perfection of architecture has the opportunity to house a collection of books as rare as they are valuable. But such is the case in the Library of the magnificent ...more »
- Location: Strahov
- Type: Churches and Cathedrals
- Tel: +420 233 107 711
Prague Castle
Prague Castle belongs among the most significant of Czech monuments and is one of the most important cultural landmarks in the Czech Republic. ...more »
- Location: Hradcany
- Type: Castle
- Tel: +420 224 373 368
Old Town Hall
Old Town City Hall is listed in the Czech national culture heritage and as a part of Stare Mesto (Old Town) in the UNESCO list. Since its foundation in the year 1338 it became the centre of authority ...more »
- Location: Old Town
- Type: Towers
Petrin Observation Tower
In 1889 Petrin Hill was indeed just an insignificant hill close to Prague Castle but that all changed after a party of 363 Czech tourists visited Paris that same year. They brought back with them the ...more »
- Location: Petrin
- Type: Towers
Jewish museum Prague
It is more than one hundred years now that the Jewish leadership in Prague saw the urgent need to do something drastic to keep their culture and history alive in the Czechoslovakian capital. ...more »
- Location: Josefov
- Type: Museums
- Tel: +420 221 711 511
Pinkas Synagogue
The Pinkas Synagogue dates all the way back to the 1530s when Aharon Meshulem Horowitz had it commissioned as a private place of prayer for himself and his own extended family. ...more »
- Location: Josefov
- Type: Synagogues
- Tel: +420 221 711 511
Ceremonial Hall
The Ceremonial Hall which makes up a part of Prague's Jewish Museum complex today displays artifacts of Jewish medicine along with ancient death and burial practices. This is highly appropriate ...more »
- Location: Josefov
- Type: Synagogues
- Tel: +420 221 711 511
Klausen Synagogue
The Klausen Synagogue is located by the entrance to the Old Jewish Cemetery and like many of the invaluable buildings of Jewish Prague owes its existence to the great Jewish philanthrope Mordechai ...more »
- Location: Josefov
- Type: Synagogues
Old Jewish Cemetery Prague
The old Jewish Cemetery in Prague is particularly memorable and evocative to all who visit it. Somehow it seems to remind us in the most elegiac and emotional way possible of all the people who must ...more »
- Location: Josefov
- Type: Museums
Maisel Synagogue
One of the standout buildings of beautiful Josefov set back a few feet from the street and with a tiny courtyard in the front of it is the Maisel Synagogue. Today it has a a pseudo-Gothic look the ...more »
- Location: Josefov
- Type: Synagogues
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