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The Žižkov Television Tower is a 216-metre transmitter tower built between 1985 and 1992 to a design by architect Václav Aulický and engineer Jiří Kozák. An observatory at 93 metres looks out over Prague, and David Černý's fibreglass babies crawl up its three steel-and-concrete columns.

Vyšehrad is a historic fortress on a rock above the east bank of the Vltava, about 3 km south-east of Prague Castle, probably founded in the 10th century. Within its Baroque ramparts stand the Basilica of St. Peter and St. Paul, the 11th-century Rotunda of St. Martin and the Vyšehrad Cemetery, where Dvořák, Smetana and Mucha are buried.

The National Museum, founded in 1818 by Kaspar Maria von Sternberg, has its main Neo-Renaissance building of 1891 at the top of Wenceslas Square. Reopened in 2018 after restoration, it is joined by an underground passage to the New Building, and its exhibitions cover natural history, Czech history and the Pantheon of national figures.

Wenceslas Square is a boulevard-like square about 750 metres long in Prague's New Town, laid out as a horse market under Charles IV in 1348. The National Museum closes its upper end, in front of Josef Václav Myslbek's equestrian statue of Saint Wenceslas. Large demonstrations were held here during the Velvet Revolution of 1989.

The Invisible Exhibition is an interactive tour on the second floor of the New Town Hall on Charles Square, in Prague since 2011. Blind and partially sighted guides lead visitors through seven rooms in total darkness, where everyday tasks such as crossing a street or paying in a café are done by touch, hearing and smell.

The Mucha Museum opened in 1998 in the Baroque Kaunitz Palace on Panská street in Prague's New Town and is devoted to the Art Nouveau painter and designer Alfons Mucha. It shows nearly 100 original works from the collection of the tennis player Ivan Lendl, including posters, decorative panels and drawings.

Saints Cyril and Methodius Cathedral on Resslova Street is the main church of the Orthodox Church in the Czech Lands and Slovakia. Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer designed it as a Catholic church, built in 1730–1736; it became Orthodox in 1935. In June 1942 the paratroopers who killed Reinhard Heydrich made their last stand in its crypt, now a national memorial.

The Powder Tower is a Late Gothic gate tower completed in 1475 between the Old Town and the New Town, where coronation processions set out on the Royal Route to Prague Castle. It is named after its later use as a gunpowder store; statues of Bohemian kings and saints decorate its facades, and a gallery at 44 metres looks over the city.

The Dancing House is an office building on the Rašín Embankment in Prague, designed by Vlado Milunić with Frank Gehry and completed in 1996. Its glass tower leaning against a solid one recalls a dancing couple, hence the nickname Ginger and Fred. Inside are a gallery, a hotel and a rooftop bar with a terrace over the Vltava.

Municipal House is an Art Nouveau civic building on Náměstí Republiky beside the Powder Tower, designed by Osvald Polívka and Antonín Balšánek and opened in 1912. Czechoslovak independence was declared here in 1918. Guided tours lead through Smetana Hall, a concert hall under a glass dome, and salons decorated by Alfons Mucha and other Czech artists.

The Pilsner Urquell Experience is an exhibition on the history and brewing of Pilsner Urquell, the pale lager first brewed in Plzeň in 1842. It fills three floors of a heritage-protected Art Nouveau bank building of 1902 at the lower end of Wenceslas Square, with audiovisual installations, an audio-guided tour, a tasting and a pub.

Image Black Light Theatre is a private company founded in Prague in 1989 by Alexander Čihař and Eva Asterová, combining black-light theatre with dance, music and pantomime. Since 2016 it has played in its own 319-seat hall in the Metro Palace at Národní 25; its shows are non-verbal and run for about 80 minutes without a break.

Choco-Story Prague is a chocolate museum opened in 2018 in the house U Bílého páva (At the White Peacock) on Celetná street, near the Týn Church. Seven rooms with historic objects, wax figures and an audio guide follow cocoa from ancient civilisations to modern Belgian chocolate making, and a window shows sweets being made.

Madame Tussauds Prague is a wax museum at Celetná 6, in the house U Bílého lva (At the White Lion) a few steps from Old Town Square. Its rooms show around forty wax figures of people from film, music, sport and culture, and one floor is given over to Czech history and medieval Prague.

The Church of Our Lady before Týn is the Gothic parish church on the east side of Prague's Old Town Square, built from the 14th century on the site of an earlier church. Its two towers rise about 80 metres, each crowned by a cluster of small spires. Inside lies the tomb of the astronomer Tycho Brahe.

Central Gallery is a private exhibition space on the corner of Old Town Square and Celetná street, in the historic house U Bílého jednorožce. It currently shows three separate exhibitions on Salvador Dalí, Alfons Mucha and Andy Warhol, whose names are painted on the façade; visitors can choose one, two or all three.

The World of Banksy is an unauthorised exhibition of reproductions of the street artist Banksy's works, set in the Church of St Michael the Archangel on Michalská street in Prague's Old Town. It shows more than 140 reproduced pieces and video animations; the church itself is Romanesque in origin, later rebuilt in Baroque style.

Old Town Square is the historic central square of Prague's Old Town, framed by the Gothic Church of Our Lady before Týn, the Baroque St. Nicholas Church, the Kinský Palace and the Old Town Hall with its astronomical clock. At its centre stands the Jan Hus Memorial, unveiled in 1915, and a Marian Column re-erected in 2020.

The Old Town Hall on Old Town Square was founded in 1338 as the seat of the Old Town council; its Gothic tower carries the medieval astronomical clock, where the twelve apostles appear on the hour. The visit takes in the tower gallery, the chapel, the state rooms and the Romanesque-Gothic cellars; the east wing burned in May 1945.