Founded by Emperor Charles IV on 7 April 1348, it is the oldest university north of the Alps and still serving its original purpose. Unfortunatelly only little was preserved of the original building (a beautiful bay window, for example), but the courtyard was rebuilt in Gothic style after 1948. Thousands of German students left the university in 1420 when the reform preacher Jan Hus became a rector. 

Today the Charles University has facilities all over Prague and the Carolinum houses only some medical faculty offices, the University Club and occasional academic ceremonies (ceremonies take place here in the Aula Magna). The gothic bow-window is often used as the University symbol. There is a gallery on the ground-floor.

Address: Zelezna 9, Prague 1, 110 00 Phone: +420 2 2449 1111
Close to station Mustek (Lines A, B) Old Town