The Ones On The Postcards
Landmarks
TODO — what landmarks in Prague are actually worth the time.
3 placesVltava
Charles Bridge
A fourteenth-century stone bridge with thirty baroque statues, begun at 5.31am on the ninth of July 1357 because the numbers made a palindrome.
Hradčany
Prague Castle
The largest ancient castle complex in the world by area — a walled district of palaces, a cathedral, a monastery and a lane of tiny houses, not a single building.
Staré Město
Old Town Square and the Astronomical Clock
A medieval square that survived everything, with a 600-year-old astronomical clock whose hourly show is, by common agreement, the most overrated forty seconds in Europe.