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Nove Mesto

Nove Mesto is Prague's New Town, founded by Charles IV in 1348 as a planned extension around three market squares, one of which is now Wenceslas Square.

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

Also known as Nové Město, New Town.

Nove Mesto is a cadastral area that spans the municipal districts of Prague 1 and Prague 2, so a single address within it may be written either way.

What is recorded here

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

  • Performing arts1
  • Museums & galleries1
  • Architecture & design1
  • Civic & heritage1

Places in Nove Mesto

Performing arts

National Theatre

Nove Mesto

The National Theatre in Prague is the country's principal opera and drama house, on the Vltava embankment in Nove Mesto. Funded by public subscription, it opened in 1881, burned within weeks, and reopened rebuilt in 1883.

Museums & galleries

National Museum

Nove Mesto

The National Museum stands at the head of Wenceslas Square in Prague, in a neo-Renaissance building of 1891 by Josef Schulz. It reopened in 2018 after a seven-year reconstruction and holds natural history and historical collections.

Visit info checked Sept 2026

Architecture & design

Palác Adria

Nove Mesto

Palac Adria on Jungmannova in Prague's Nove Mesto is a Rondocubist office and theatre building of 1925 by Pavel Janak and Josef Zasche, built for an Italian insurance company.

Civic & heritage

New Town Hall

Nove Mesto

The New Town Hall on Karlovo namesti in Prague was built from the fourteenth century as the seat of the New Town, and is where the first Prague defenestration took place in 1419.

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