Just south of Charles Square is Charles University鈥檚 botanical garden. Founded in 1775 and moved from Sm铆chov to its present site in 1898, it鈥檚 the country鈥檚 oldest botanical garden. The steep, hillside garden concentrates on Central European flora and is especially pretty in spring.
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Built over a time span of almost 600 years, St Vitus is one of the most richly endowed cathedrals in central Europe. It is pivotal to the religious and鈥
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Strolling across Charles Bridge is everybody鈥檚 favourite Prague activity. However, by 9am it鈥檚 a 500m-long fairground, with an army of tourists squeezing鈥
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Prague鈥檚 most popular attraction. Looming above the Vltava's left bank, its serried ranks of spires, towers and palaces dominate the city centre like a鈥
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This museum consists of six Jewish monuments clustered together in Josefov: the Maisel Synagogue; the Pinkas Synagogue; the Spanish Synagogue; the Klaus鈥
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Strahov Library is the largest monastic library in the country, with two magnificent baroque halls dating from the 17th and 18th centuries. You can peek鈥
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Prague鈥檚 most exuberantly art-nouveau building is a labour of love, with every detail of its design and decoration carefully considered, and every鈥
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While this monument's massive functionalist structure has all the elegance of a nuclear power station, the interior is a spectacular extravaganza of鈥
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More a broad boulevard than a typical European city square, Wenceslas Square has witnessed a great deal of Czech history 鈥 a giant Mass was held here鈥
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The baroque palace at the southern end of Charles Square is known as Faust House because, according to the popular German legend, this was where鈥
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The most striking building in the drab neighbourhood south of Je膷n谩 is the energetically baroque Vila Amerika, a 1720s, French-style summer house designed鈥
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Presiding over Chalres Square is this 1660s baroque tour de force, designed for the Jesuits by Carlo Lurago.
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With an area of more than seven hectares, Charles Square is Prague鈥檚 biggest 鈥 it鈥檚 more like a small park, really, and was originally the city's cattle鈥
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Stanislav Sucharda鈥檚 extraordinary art nouveau Franti拧ek Palack媒 Memorial dominates Palack茅ho n谩m臎st铆. It shows a swarm of haunted bronze figures 鈥
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This is where the eponymous antihero was arrested at the beginning of Jaroslav Ha拧ek鈥檚 comic novel of WWI, The Good Soldier 艩vejk (which Ha拧ek cranked out鈥
7. National Memorial to the Heroes of the Heydrich Terror
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The Church of Sts Cyril & Methodius houses a moving memorial to the seven Czech paratroopers who were involved in the assassination of Reichsprotektor鈥
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This rotunda is one of the few surviving examples of circular Romanesque churches in the city. It dates from the 12th century and was originally the鈥