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Apartments Letna Praha

Apartments Letna

Prague close to center → Holešovice, Prague 7 • 1 mi ( 1.7 km ) from Wenceslas Square

Apartments Letna is situated near the center of Prague, close to the Fair Ground Area and the National Gallery of Modern Art in a quiet area.

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Hotel Galerie Royale Praha - Triple room

Hotel Galerie Royale

Prague close to center → Karlín, Prague 8 • 1.4 mi ( 2.3 km ) from Wenceslas Square

Prag Hotel Royal Galerie is beautiful, newly-renovated luxury Prague hotel in art-nouveau style. Hotel is attractively situated near the centre Prague, right next to the Krizikova metro station and just two stations away from the historical centre of Prague. Prague Hotel Royal Galerie offers comfortable, stylish accommodation in Prague at a high standard. All hotel rooms are equipped with en-suite bathroom and WC, satellite TV, minibar and telephone.

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Hotel Coronet Praha

Hotel Coronet

Prague out of center → Nusle, Prague 4 • 1.3 mi ( 2 km ) from Wenceslas Square

Hotel Coronet Praha, from category 4 star Prague hotels, is new opened business hotel only two stops from the city centre by Metro and uniquely located adjacent to the Prague Congress Centre, in a quiet neighbourhood of the national heritage site Vysehrad. 

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Boutique Hotel Constans Praha

Boutique Hotel Constans

Prague center → Lesser Town, Prague 1 • 1 mi ( 1.7 km ) from Wenceslas Square

Hotel Constans Praha, from category 4 star Prague hotels, is situated in the very historical centre of Prague, on Jánský Vrch directly under Prague Castle (Prazsky hrad). Surely, each of guests valued the unforgettable, romantic views of the entire Malá Strana, not to mention the St. Nicholas Cathedral or the Schwarzenberg Palace. By foot, you will be able to easily visit Prague Castle, the Strahov Monastery, Charles’ Bridge—and then along Karlova Street to—Old Town Square, the Jewish Town and many other historical places. 

 

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BEST HOSTEL PRAGUE Praha

BEST HOSTEL PRAGUE

Prague close to center → Vinohrady, Prague 2 • 1.5 mi ( 2.5 km ) from Wenceslas Square

Situated a 5-minute walk from the Wenceslas Square, Prague Hostel Cathedral offers free WiFi access, a 24-hour front desk and a bike and car rental services.

The rooms offer views of a garden and are fitted with an en-suite shower and free toiletries. Toilet facilities are shared. Linen and towels are provided.

Breakfast is served every morning and there are also a snack bar and a mini market in the hostel. A shared kitchen is available to guests and a grocery shop, Nonstop Market, can be found 5 metres from the hostel, while the Retro Music Cafe is 1 metre away.

Guests can relax on a terrace and use services of a tour desk and a ticket service.

The National Museum is located 1 km from Cathedral Hostel Prague. The Náměstí Míru Metro Station is a 1-minute walk from the hostel and the Václav Havel Airport Prague is 32 km away.

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SAX Praha

SAX

Prague center → Lesser Town, Prague 1 • 1 mi ( 1.7 km ) from Wenceslas Square

Desing Hotel Sax from category 4 star Prague hotels, you will find in one of the most beautiful parts of old Praha, the Lesser Town. The Charles Bridge, Prague Castle and St. Nicholas´ Cathedral, the most important sights in Praha, lies in the vicinity of our hotel and you can also admire them out of the hotel windows. Hotel Sax is ideal place for turists as well as business travelers.

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Hotel Apollon Praha - Double room, Single room

Hotel Apollon

Prague close to center → Žižkov, Prague 3 • 1.5 mi ( 2.5 km ) from Wenceslas Square

Hotel Apollon Praha, from category 3 star Prague hotels, is located in the residential area of Zizkov and is thus an ideal base from which to explore the Prague centre and for spending restful nights. The hotel is surrounded by shops and bars, and the main tourist attractions are easily accessible. Hotel Apollon offers Prague accommodation in 50 rooms.

 

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Hostel Little Quarter Hotel Prague Praha - Triple room, Four bedded room

Hostel Little Quarter Hotel Prague

Prague centre → Prague Castle District, Prague 1 • 1 mi ( 1.7 km ) from Wenceslas Square

Accommodation in Prague 1 - Hotel and Hostel Little Quarter, is situated in Nerudova street, directly on the famous Royal Route, which winds through the heart of the historical Prague center. Rooms on the top floors and a roof patio opened during the summer offer unforgettable view of the Prague Castle and Petřín Hill.

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Hotel Aureus Clavis Praha

Hotel Aureus Clavis

Prague centre → Prague Castle District, Prague 1 • 1 mi ( 1.7 km ) from Wenceslas Square

Hotel Aureus Clavis Praha, from category 3 star hotels Prague, is a small, romantic hotel, housed in a classic Gothic building in the very heart of the historical centre of Prague in Mala Strana (the Lesser Town) in the street Nerudova. Most major tourist destinations - Prague Castle, the Charles Bridge, the Old Town Square, the old Jewish quarter of Josefov - are within walking distance.

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HOTEL U ZLATÉHO KOLA Praha

HOTEL U ZLATÉHO KOLA

Prague centre → Lesser Town, Prague 1 • 1 mi ( 1.8 km ) from Wenceslas Square

Hotel The Golden Wheel (U Zlateho Kola), from category 4 star Prague hotels, is situated directly in Nerudova Street, thus in the most well-known and picturesque spot in the Lesser Quarter (Mala Strana). It’s right here that the so-called Kralovska cesta (Royal Route), travelled by all Czech kings to their crowning in the St. Vitus Cathedral. Passing by palaces of nobility, merchants’ shops and mysterious arcades, you will get to us while walking the same ancient stone-paved route. Small, romantic, family type hotel offers Prague accommodation in 17 luxurious rooms.

 

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Hotel Vysehrad Praha

Hotel Vysehrad

Prague out of center → Nusle, Prague 4 • 1.3 mi ( 2 km ) from Wenceslas Square

Hotel Vysehrad Praha as a four stars Prague hotel was opened in 1995. The hotel is furnished in the 19th century decorative style. Hotel Vysehrad is situated in the Prague Downtown, just two subway stops from the Vaclavske namestí (Wenceslas Square) and next to the Prague Congress Center. The hotel is conveniently located near Prague Congress Centre, Vysehrad National Cultural Monument, Vysehrad Castle. Vysehrad Hotel offers Prague accommodation in 42 guestrooms in a 4-story property, which are composed of 4 singles rooms, 35 doubles rooms and 1 apartment room.

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House At the Big Boot Praha

House At the Big Boot

Prague center → Prague Castle District, Prague 1 • 1.1 mi ( 1.8 km ) from Wenceslas Square

House at the Big Boot from category 3 star hotels in Prague, is a small family hotel in an old renaissance - looking burgher house in Malá Strana. It is situated ten minutes walk from the Prague Castle or the Charles Bridge, in a small square just opposite the Lobkowitz Palace - today´s offices of the German Embassy. 

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Wenceslas Square (Václavské náměstí)

Wenceslas Square

Wenceslas Square (Czech:  Václavské náměst, colloquially Václavák) is one of the main city squares and the centre of the business and cultural communities in the New Town of Prague, Czech Republic. Many historical events occurred there, and it is a traditional setting for demonstrations, celebrations, and other public gatherings. The square is named after Saint Wenceslas, the patron saint of Bohemia. It is part of the historic centre of Prague, a World Heritage Site.

Formerly known as Koňský trh (Horse Market), for its periodic accommodation of horse markets during the Middle Ages, it was renamed Svatováclavské náměstí (English: Saint Wenceslas square) in 1848 on the proposal of Karel Havlíček Borovský.

Features

Less a square than a boulevard, Wenceslas Square has the shape of a very long (750 m, total area 45,000 m²) rectangle, in a northwest–southeast direction. The street slopes upward to the southeast side. At that end, the street is dominated by the grand neoclassical Czech National Museum. The northwest end runs up against the border between the New Town and the Old Town.

History

In 1348, Bohemian King Charles IV founded the New Town of Prague. The plan included several open areas for markets, of which the second largest was the Koňský trh, or Horse Market (the largest was the Charles Square). At the southeastern end of the market was the Horse Gate, one of the gates in the walls of the New Town.

During the Czech national revival movement in the 19th century, a more noble name for the street was requested. At this time the statue was built, and the square was renamed.

On 28 October 1918, Alois Jirásek read the proclamation of independence of Czechoslovakia in front of the Saint Wenceslas statue.

The Nazis used the street for mass demonstrations. During the Prague Uprising in 1945, a few buildings near the National Museum were destroyed. They were later replaced by department stores.

On 16 January 1969, student Jan Palach set himself on fire in Wenceslas Square to protest the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union in 1968.

On 28 March 1969, the Czechoslovakian national ice hockey team defeated the USSR team for the second time in that year's Ice Hockey World Championships. As the country was still under Soviet occupation, the victory induced great celebrations. Perhaps 150,000 people gathered on Wenceslas Square, and skirmishes with police developed. A group of agents provocateurs provoked an attack on the Prague office of the Soviet airline Aeroflot, located on the street. The vandalism served as a pretext for reprisals and the period of so-called normalization.

In 1989, during the Velvet Revolution, large demonstrations (with hundreds of thousands of people or more) were held here.

Wenceslas Square is lined by hotels, offices, retail stores, currency exchange booths and fast-food joints. To the dismay of locals and city officials, the street is also a popular location for prostitutes to ply their trade late at night. Many strip clubs exist on and around Wenceslas Square, making Prague a popular location for stag parties.

Art and architecture

The two obvious landmarks of Wenceslas Square are at the southeast, uphill end: the 1885–1891 National Museum Building, designed by Czech architect Josef Schulz, and the statue of Wenceslas.

The mounted saint was sculpted by Josef Václav Myslbek in 1887–1924, and the image of Wenceslas is accompanied by other Czech patron saints carved into the ornate statue base: Saint Ludmila, Saint Agnes of Bohemia, Saint Prokop, and Saint Adalbert of Prague. The statue base, designed by architect Alois Dryák, includes the inscription: "Svatý Václave, vévodo české země, kníže náš, nedej zahynouti nám ni budoucím" ("Saint Wenceslas, duke of the Czech land, prince of ours, do not let perish us nor our descendants"). A memorable parody of this statue, created by David Černý, hangs in a Lucerna Palace gallery near the square.

Transport

The Prague Metro's line A runs underneath Wenceslas Square, and the Metro's two busiest stations, Muzeum (lines A and C) and Můstek (lines A and B), have entrances on the street. Tram tracks running the length of the street were removed from the street in 1980; a proposal to reintroduce trams is under consideration. Currently trams bisect the square only. Most of the street is open to automobile traffic; the northwestern end is pedestrianised.

t:source: http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Václavské_náměstí

Landmarks near Wenceslas Square

  • St. Wenceslas statue
    50 yd ( 40 m ) from Wenceslas Square
  • Public transport station Muzeum - A
    60 yd ( 60 m ) from Wenceslas Square
  • Metro station Muzeum
    60 yd ( 60 m ) from Wenceslas Square
  • Narodni muzeum
    140 yd ( 130 m ) from Wenceslas Square
  • Public transport station Muzeum - C
    160 yd ( 150 m ) from Wenceslas Square
  • COMO Restaurant & Café
    170 yd ( 160 m ) from Wenceslas Square
  • Alcron
    200 yd ( 180 m ) from Wenceslas Square
  • Divadlo Radka Brzobohatého
    210 yd ( 190 m ) from Wenceslas Square
  • Veřejné garáže Radisson Blu Alcron Hotel
    230 yd ( 210 m ) from Wenceslas Square
  • Divadlo Palace Theatre
    230 yd ( 210 m ) from Wenceslas Square
  • Lucerna
    240 yd ( 220 m ) from Wenceslas Square
  • Divadlo Rokoko
    300 yd ( 270 m ) from Wenceslas Square
  • State Opera Prague
    320 yd ( 290 m ) from Wenceslas Square
  • Divadlo Síť
    320 yd ( 290 m ) from Wenceslas Square
  • 35 (Francouzský Institut)
    340 yd ( 310 m ) from Wenceslas Square
  • Lucerna
    360 yd ( 320 m ) from Wenceslas Square
  • Parking Centrum
    360 yd ( 330 m ) from Wenceslas Square
  • Světozor
    380 yd ( 350 m ) from Wenceslas Square
  • Divadlo ABC
    390 yd ( 350 m ) from Wenceslas Square
  • University of New York in Prague
    450 yd ( 410 m ) from Wenceslas Square

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