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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 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.

The Church of St. Nicholas on Old Town Square is a Baroque church built in 1732–1737 by Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer on the site of a 13th-century Gothic church. Its white facade with two towers faces the square; since 1920 it has been the main church of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church, and it also hosts concerts.

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.

Charles Bridge is a medieval stone bridge across the Vltava, begun in 1357 under King Charles IV and finished in the early 15th century. It is 516 metres long, rests on 16 arches and has bridge towers at both ends; a row of 30 statues, mostly Baroque and now replaced by copies, lines its parapets on the walk between the Old Town and Malá Strana.

The Lennon Wall is a graffiti-covered wall on Grand Priory Square in Prague's Lesser Town, opposite the French Embassy. After John Lennon's murder in 1980 an unknown artist painted his portrait here, and the wall became a place for messages against the communist government. It belongs to the Order of Malta, which limited painting to certain sections in 2019.

Wallenstein Palace is a Baroque palace in Malá Strana, built in 1623–1630 for the imperial general Albrecht von Wallenstein and now the seat of the Czech Senate. Its Italian-style garden has a large sala terrena, an artificial dripstone wall, an aviary and bronze copies of statues by Adriaen de Vries; the palace halls open for Saturday tours.

The Church of Our Lady of Victories in Malá Strana was built in 1611–1613 by German-speaking Lutherans and given to the Discalced Carmelites, who rededicated it in 1624 and rebuilt it in early Baroque style. It houses the Infant Jesus of Prague, a wax-coated wooden statue from 16th-century Spain donated in 1628, and a small museum of its robes.

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 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.

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.