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Stare Mesto

Stare Mesto is Prague's Old Town, a cadastral area on the right bank of the Vltava built around the Old Town Square and the medieval street pattern leading to the Charles Bridge.

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

Also known as Staré Město, Old Town.

Stare Mesto is a cadastral area and one of the four historic towns joined in 1784. It lies within the municipal district of Prague 1 and encloses the separate cadastral area of Josefov.

What is recorded here

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

  • Civic & heritage3
  • Performing arts2

Places in Stare Mesto

Civic & heritage

Old Town Hall

Stare Mesto

The Old Town Hall on Prague's Old Town Square has served the town since 1338 and carries the astronomical clock installed in 1410. Its east wing was destroyed in May 1945 and never rebuilt.

Performing arts

Municipal House

Stare Mesto

The Municipal House is an Art Nouveau civic building of 1912 beside the Powder Tower in Prague's Old Town, containing the Smetana Hall, restaurants and exhibition rooms. Czechoslovak independence was declared here in 1918.

Performing arts

Rudolfinum

Stare Mesto

The Rudolfinum is a neo-Renaissance concert hall and gallery of 1885 on Jan Palach Square in Prague, home of the Czech Philharmonic and, between 1918 and 1939, of the Czechoslovak parliament.

Civic & heritage

Klementinum

Stare Mesto

The Klementinum is a large former Jesuit college complex in Prague's Old Town, now holding the National Library of the Czech Republic, the Baroque Library Hall of 1722 and an astronomical tower.

Civic & heritage

Powder Tower

Stare Mesto

The Powder Tower is a Gothic city gate in Prague, begun in 1475 as one of the original entrances to the Old Town and completed in its present form in the late nineteenth century.

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