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Old Town Square
Eliška Vavřinová1.6.2014
C3B
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Content
1. Main information2. Historical events3. Old Town Hall4. Prague Astronomical clock5. Church of St. Nicholas6. Tyn Church7. Jan Hus monument8. Famous houses 9. Sources
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Old Town Square
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Main information• located between Wenceslas Square and the Charles
Bridge• center of the Old Town• the historic core • Royal road passes through here• National Historic Landmark
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Historical events
• wide marketplace• Jan Želivský – executed - Hussite movement• 1621 – 27 men - leader of the Czech uprising • 1902 – manifestation - general suffrage
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Old Town Hall
• Prague uprising• astronomical clock • gothic style • circular windows • pointed arches
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Prague astronomical clock
• the third-oldest astronomical clock in the world
• medieval astronomical clock (1410)
• the oldest one still working
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Church of St. Nicholas
• baroque style• Kilián Dientzenhofer• Czechoslovak Hussite Church• frescos, organ
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Tyn Church
• 14th century – 16th century• Prague's most
important churches • architecture and
interiors
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Jan Hus monument
• secession bronze monument
• Ladislav Šaloun (1915)• the fiftieth anniversary
of Jan Hus burned at the stake
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Famous houses
House at the Stone Bell Tyn School
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Famous houses
Storch house House in Minutes
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Sources
• http://www.praguecityline.cz/prazske-pamatky/historie-staromestskeho-namesti
• http://www.praguecityline.cz/prazske-pamatky/staromestsky-orloj-%E2%80%93-historie
• http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starom%C4%9Bstsk%C3%A9_n%C3%A1m%C4%9Bst%C3%AD