PRAGUE GUIDE

Wenceslas Square is undoubtedly one of the most well-known area of Prague, however it is somewhere that does not appeal to every tourist that visits this wonderful city. This is the same with every city in the world though, as there is always a place...

It should be the city centre and the main attraction of the capital. Instead, it is quite dilapidated and noisy, and after dusk it is better not to venture there at all. This is what Václavské Square is like. Every day hundreds of drug doses are sold there, and it has probably the most brothels of the whole of Prague! However after years the decision has been finally made to carry out a thorough reconstruction of the square.

Prague's part part-pedestrianised high street, lined with fashion outlets, restaurants and shopping arcades, slants down from Republic Square to the northern tip of Wenceslas Square.

From the golden age of hotels, it was built in a highly decorated Art Nouveau style between 1903 and 1906.

In 1348, Bohemian King Charles IV founded the New Town of Prague. The plan included several open areas for markets, of which the largest was the Koňský trh, or Horse Market. At the south-eastern end of the market was the Horse Gate, one of the gates in the walls of the New Town.

The south end of Na příkopě meets Wenceslas Square (Václvské náměstí) - the 750-metre long and 60-metre wide boulevard. It was first laid out over 600 years ago in the Charles IV period when it was used as a horse market.