Prague Guide

At Mount Charles, the highest point of the New Town of Prague, Charles IV built a church in honour of St Charlemagne and a monastery for the canons regular of St Augustine. The octagonal church is an unusual layout, and was built along the lines of the funeral chapel of Charlemagne in Aachen.

This is a nice small Baroque church, designed by Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer, and built during 1730-1739. Its twin square towers are set at a sharp angle to the church's narrow facade. A double staircase leads up to the west front, and the interior is based on an octagonal floorplan.

This unique church is popular with tourists, not just because of its architectonic curiosities, but mainly because it is where the public maternity clinic was opened in 1789. The church is also located close to the University campus at Albertov of Prague.

In Prague there is a whole range of sacral monuments of various architectural styles and religions. Probably the most visited is the Cathedral of St. Vitus, while the most famous site for pilgrimage in Prague is definitely the Church of Our Lady Victorious.

The monastery Na Slovanech with its church was founded by Charles IV in 1347. The ruler invited there Slavic Benedictine monks from Dalmatia and Croatia. The area was thus destined to become the only Slavonic monastery of the entire empire.

Built in 1932 by Slovenian architect Josip Plecnik, this very unusual building looks like a train station, or a stone freighter with a glass clocktower for a wheelhouse.

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The original sculptures of 1672 still decorate the facade of this Baroque church. Statues featuring St John Nepomuk (1747) are in front.

Completed in 1401 with its multi-spired steeple, St Stephen's was re-Gothicised in the 1870s by Josef Mocker.

St Catherine's stands in the garden of a former convent (1354). In the 1500s it was rebuilt as an Augustinián monastery.

With its wealth of gilding and flamboyant stucco decoration, St Ignatius, which was built between 1685 and 1687, is typical of the Baroque churches created by Jesuits.

The Baroque church by the Old Town Bridge Tower is the St. Francis Seraphicus Church. It belongs to the Order of the Knights of the Cross with a Red Star - the only order of the knights founded in Bohemia.

Built between 1888 and 1893, its two massive twin towers dominate the architecture.  While the exterior of this Gothic style church is beautiful, the inside can literally take your breath away.

On top of the Petrin hill next to the view-tower stands the beautiful baroque church of St Lawrence. According to legend, the church was built in the 10th century on the site of a pagan shrine.

This church, the oldest in the Little Quarter, was founded in the 1100s. Its name refers to the chain used in the Middle Ages to close the monastery gatehouse.

Bohemia's first Capuchin monastery built here in 1600. Next to it is the Church of Our Lady Queen of Angels, a single-naved building with plain furnishings, typical of the ascetic Capuchin order.

Church of St Castullus is one of the finest Gothic buildings in Prague. The church was built in the late 1300s as a small Romanic church.

The Bohemia Brethren built this church with high Late Gothic windows in 1615-20, and in the middle of 18th century it was redecorated in late Baroque style together with the buildings of the convent and hospital to which the Church originally belonged.

This Baroque church was built in the mid-14th century for Benedictine’s convent. Later this church was destroyed in Husite Wars and not long after damaged by fire in the 1689.

Founded in 1347 by Charles IV, Church Our Lady of the Snows was supposed to be the second largest religious monument, right after the St Vitus Cathedral but because of Hussite war it was never completed on that scale.