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Old Town Square

Old Town Square. Eliška Vavřinová 1.6.2014 C3B. Content. Main information Historical events Old Town Hall Prague Astronomical clock Church of St. Nicholas Tyn Church Jan Hus monument Famous houses Sources. Old Town Square. Main information.

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Old Town Square

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  1. Old Town Square Eliška Vavřinová 1.6.2014 C3B

  2. Content • Maininformation • Historicalevents • OldTownHall • Prague Astronomicalclock • Churchof St. Nicholas • TynChurch • Jan Hus monument • Famoushouses • Sources

  3. OldTown Square

  4. Main information • located between Wenceslas Square and the Charles Bridge • center of the Old Town • thehistoric core • Royal road passes through here • NationalHistoricLandmark

  5. Historicalevents • widemarketplace • Jan Želivský – executed - Hussitemovement • 1621 – 27 men - leader of the Czech uprising • 1902 – manifestation - generalsuffrage

  6. OldTownHall • Prague uprising • astronomicalclock • gothic style • circular windows • pointed arches

  7. Prague astronomicalclock • thethird-oldestastronomicalclock in theworld • medievalastronomicalclock (1410) • theoldestonestillworking

  8. Churchof St. Nicholas • baroque style • Kilián Dientzenhofer • Czechoslovak Hussite Church • frescos, organ

  9. TynChurch • 14th century– 16th century • Prague's most importantchurches • architecture and interiors

  10. Jan Hus monument • secession bronze monument • Ladislav Šaloun (1915) • the fiftieth anniversary of Jan Hus burned at the stake

  11. Famoushouses House at the Stone Bell TynSchool

  12. Famoushouses Storch house House in Minutes

  13. Sources • http://www.praguecityline.cz/prazske-pamatky/historie-staromestskeho-namesti • http://www.praguecityline.cz/prazske-pamatky/staromestsky-orloj-%E2%80%93-historie • http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starom%C4%9Bstsk%C3%A9_n%C3%A1m%C4%9Bst%C3%AD

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