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Top 10 sights in Prague

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   Prague Castle

   The largest castle complex in the world by area, about seventy thousand square metres, and the seat of Bohemian kings, Habsburg governors, Nazi occupiers, communists and now the Czech president. Two Catholic officials were thrown from a window here in 1618, starting the Thirty Years' War.

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   St. Vitus Cathedral

   The Gothic cathedral inside the castle, begun in 1344 and finished only in 1929, so its west end is Victorian and its choir medieval. The Bohemian crown jewels are kept in a chamber with seven locks, and Mucha designed one of the windows in 1931.

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   Prague Astronomical Clock

   Installed in 1410 and the oldest astronomical clock still working anywhere. It shows the sun and moon against the zodiac rather than the time in any modern sense; the twelve apostles turn on the hour, and the crowd for it is the largest routine gathering in the country.

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   National Museum in Prague

   The national museum, founded in 1818 and in this building at the head of Wenceslas Square since 1891. Soviet gunfire pocked its facade in August 1968; the repairs were made in paler stone and deliberately left visible.

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   Wenceslas Square

   Not a square but a boulevard seven hundred and fifty metres long, and the place where modern Czech history has happened: the protests of 1968, Jan Palach's self-immolation in January 1969, and the crowds of November 1989 that ended the regime.

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   Vyšehrad

   The fortress hill three kilometres upriver from the castle, where legend puts the founding of the city. Its Slavín cemetery holds Dvořák, Smetana and Mucha, and the ramparts give the view over the Vltava without any of the crowds.

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   Old Town Square

   The city's living room, with the Týn church on one side and the town hall clock on the other. Twenty-seven crosses set into the paving mark where Protestant nobles were executed in 1621, and the Jan Hus monument of 1915 stands in the middle.

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   Church of Our Lady before Týn

   The Gothic parish church of the Old Town, its two spires of eighty metres deliberately unequal — one male, one female, as Prague explains it. Tycho Brahe, who lost his nose in a duel and died here in 1601, is buried inside.

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   National Gallery Prague

   The state art collection, spread over several buildings: the medieval and old master work near the castle, and the modern collection in the Trade Fair Palace, a functionalist building of 1928 that Le Corbusier admired. Mucha's twenty-canvas Slav Epic belongs to it.

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    Old New Synagogue

    Completed around 1270 and the oldest synagogue in Europe still in use, having survived the clearance of the whole surrounding quarter. The Golem that Rabbi Loew is said to have made is supposed to lie in its attic, which is why the stair to it was removed.

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   Infant Jesus of Prague

   A small wax-coated wooden statue of the Christ child, Spanish in origin, given to the Carmelites in 1628 and credited by generations of Praguers with saving the city more than once. It has a wardrobe of about a hundred dresses, changed through the liturgical year, and copies are venerated as far away as the Philippines.

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   Žižkov Television Tower

   A transmitter built between 1985 and 1992, two hundred and sixteen metres of grey steel tubes that Praguers loathed on sight. David Černý bolted ten crawling fibreglass babies to its columns in 2000, which changed the argument, and there is a restaurant near the top.

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   Petřín Lookout Tower

   The Petřín lookout tower is Prague's small Eiffel Tower, a viewing tower on a hill reached by funicular. The rose garden and the mirror maze stand beside it.

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   St. George's Basilica

   The oldest surviving church in Prague Castle, founded by Vratislaus I in 920 and rebuilt in Romanesque form after the fire of 1142. Behind its red baroque front lie bare stone walls, the tombs of the Premyslid dukes and an acoustic much used for concerts.

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   Powder Tower

   One of the thirteen original gates of the Old Town, rebuilt in 1475 as a ceremonial arch on the coronation route and later used to store gunpowder, which gave it the name. The gallery at the top looks along the roofline of the city of spires.

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   Old Jewish Cemetery

   A cemetery used from 1439 to 1787 in a space the community was never allowed to enlarge, so the dead were buried in layers — perhaps a hundred thousand people under twelve thousand crowded stones. Rabbi Loew's grave is the one covered in pebbles and paper prayers.

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   Ss. Cyril and Methodius Cathedral

   The primatial cathedral of the Czech and Slovak Orthodox Church on Resslova Street in Nové Město in Prague. The paratroopers who assassinated Heydrich in 1942 hid in its crypt and died there under siege, and the bullet marks of that day remain on the outer wall.

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   St. Nicholas Church

   The baroque church of the Lesser Town, built by the Dientzenhofers between 1704 and 1755, with the highest dome and the loudest interior in Prague. Mozart played its organ in 1787, and the concerts held in it still trade on that.

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   Prague Zoo

   Opened in 1931 in the Troja valley and now spread over 58 hectares, with around 5,000 animals of some 670 species. It led the breeding programme that saved Przewalski's horse from extinction, and still flies the animals out to the Mongolian steppe.

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    Old Town Hall

    The old town hall of Prague on the Old Town Square, and among the most visited buildings in the city. Its astronomical clock is set into the south wall.

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