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Prague in Six Dates That Shook Europe

This walk crosses the Old Town into the New Town following the moments when Prague decided its own fate: a builder king, a public execution, a Mozart premiere, a declaration of independence and a revolution without a shot fired.

  • 6 stops
  • 2.5 km
  • 2 h
  • Free
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Gothic Old Town Bridge Tower with its sculpted facade

The route

Stop by stop

  1. 1 Old Town Bridge TowerThe Gothic gateway Charles IV raised as a triumphal arch, where the heads of executed rebels hung for ten years.
  2. 2 The ClementinumThe Jesuits' fortress of learning, launchpad of Bohemia's re-Catholicisation, where the weather has been recorded since 1775.
  3. 3 Old Town SquareThe stage where Prague has executed, celebrated and proclaimed for eight centuries; twenty-seven crosses in the ground remember it.
  4. 4 Estates TheatreThe only surviving theatre where Mozart conducted the premiere of one of his operas: Don Giovanni, in 1787.
  5. 5 Municipal House and Powder TowerA Gothic tower that once stored gunpowder and, next door, the Art Nouveau palace where Czechoslovak independence was proclaimed.
  6. 6 Wenceslas SquareA former horse market that became the great stage of 20th-century Czech history, from 1918 to 1989.

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What you’ll discover

Prague in Six Dates That Shook Europe

Six centuries in two kilometres

From the Gothic tower of 1357 to the protests of 1989, on pedestrian streets and in chronological order.

Places where history happened

Not just pretty buildings: people were executed, operas premiered, nations proclaimed and regimes toppled right here.

Traces still in plain sight

Crosses in the paving, inscriptions and statues that tell the story once you know where to look.

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