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Prague - Facts


Panorama of Prague centre

Panorama of Lesser Town of Prague

  • 1 270 000 inhabitants with more than 8000 pubs
  • more tourists than citizens
  • one of the most homogeneously grown cities in Europe
  • the biggest preserved historic town's centre in the World (UNESCO World Heritage Site)
  • living textbook of architecture from Romanesque and Gothic through Renaissance and Baroque to Art-Nouveau...
  • two big ice hockey and soccer clubs (Slavia and Sparta)


St. Nicholas Church

  • Capital of the Holy Roman Empire
  • Golden Eras of Prague - the reign of emperors Charles IV. and Rudolph II.
  • Charles University - the oldest university the Middle Europe (1348)


Charles IV. and Rudolph II.

  • The first Reformation movement in the Holy Roman Empire (1402)
  • Jan Hus (John Huss) - the first Church reformer before Luther, Calvin, and Zwingli (staked in Constance in 1415)


Jan Hus