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Mala Strana

Mala Strana is a cadastral area of Prague on the left bank of the Vltava, below Prague Castle. It was founded as a separate town in 1257 and retains a largely Baroque townscape.

Type
cadastral area
Status
An official administrative unit with a defined boundary.

Also known as Malá Strana, Lesser Town, Kleinseite.

Mala Strana is a cadastral area of Prague, and also one of the historic towns that were joined to form the city in 1784. It lies within the municipal district of Prague 1.

What is recorded here

Counts describe this corpus, not the area as a whole.

  • Civic & heritage2
  • Religious sites1
  • Viewpoints1

Places in Mala Strana

Religious sites

Church of St Nicholas

Mala Strana

The Church of St Nicholas stands in the middle of Malostranske namesti in Prague's Mala Strana. Built between 1704 and 1755 by Christoph and Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer with Anselmo Lurago, it is a protected cultural monument and remains in use as a church.

Civic & heritage

Wallenstein Palace

Mala Strana

Wallenstein Palace is a Baroque palace in Prague's Mala Strana, built between 1623 and 1630 for Albrecht von Wallenstein. It is a national cultural monument and has housed the Senate of the Czech Republic since 1996; its formal garden is open to the public.

Viewpoints

Petrin Lookout Tower

Mala Strana

The Petrin Lookout Tower is a steel observation tower on Petrin hill in Prague, built in 1891 for the Jubilee Exhibition and modelled loosely on the Eiffel Tower at roughly a fifth of its height. It is a protected cultural monument.

Civic & heritage

Mirror Maze at Petrin

Mala Strana

The Mirror Maze on Petrin hill in Prague occupies a cast-iron pavilion built for the 1891 Jubilee Exhibition in the form of a fragment of the Vysehrad gate, holding a mirror maze and a diorama of the 1648 defence of Prague.

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