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The Statue of St. Wenceslas

As we said in the opening paragraphs to both the Spanelska and Olivova Apartments, one cannot go to Prague and not see Wenceslas Square. It has a central place in Prague’s history, from being a horse market back in the early days, to a place of gathering to celebrate victory, like the Velvet Revolution, to protest, like the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. In 1918 the independence of Czechoslovakia was announced in front of the Saint Wenceslas Statue.

The Square, known in colloquial Czech as Vaclavak (pronounced Vats-la-vaak), is really more of a fancy boulevard rather than a square. It is 750 meters long from top to bottom and abuts the New town on the upper end and Stare Mesto on the lower end. A statue of the patron saint of Bohemia, Saint Wenceslas dominates the top end of the square just below the lovely neoclassical Czech National Meuseum.

Prague’s National Museum

Along either side are beautiful buildings designed in neo-gothic, art-deco style along with sprinklings of more modern architecture. Tenants of these buildings today include hotels, shops, restaurants, fancy retail outlets, banks, exchange shops and typical Czech fast food joints (sausage and mustard for example).

Getting to and from the Square is simple from most of our Apartments in Prague. Olivova and Spanelska Apartments are literally on the square. Beneditkska Apartment is a ten minute stroll through Stare Mesto away. If you are staying in Mala Strana or near the Charles Bridge with Apartments in Prague, then undoubtedly you’ll run into the Square during your wanderings, but if you want to make a point of visiting the Square and want to get over to it in a hurry, take the A line metro from the Malostranske metro stop and it’ll take you to Mustek, which is on the bottom of the Square.

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