Buildings in Prague

Palaces, towers, churches and villas: who built them and what they hold today.

23 entries · updated 3 October 2026

Municipal House in a perspective drawing by architect Antonín Balšánek, the Powder Tower on the left

Astronomical Tower of the Clementinum Place
The tower of the Jesuit Clementinum college in Prague, an observatory since the 18th century and the site of the longest continuous weather record in…
Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic Organisation
The Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic is the lower house of the Czech parliament. After the break-up of Czechoslovakia it…
Charles Bridge Place
A stone bridge over the Vltava from the 14th century that connects the Old Town with Malá Strana; the oldest standing bridge over the Vltava in…
Church of Our Lady before Týn Place
A Gothic three-nave church with two 80-metre towers by Old Town Square in Prague, the main church of the Old Town.
Church of Our Lady beneath the Chain Place
The Church of Our Lady beneath the Chain is a Roman Catholic church in the Lesser Town of Prague. It is the conventual church of the Grand Priory of…
Church of St Nicholas Place
A Baroque church in the middle of Lesser Town Square in Prague, the work of Kryštof and Kilián Ignác Dientzenhofer, with a separate municipal bell…
Clementinum Place
A former Jesuit college in Prague's Old Town, the second-largest building complex in the city and the seat of the National Library of the Czech…
House of the Black Madonna Place
A Cubist house by Josef Gočár from 1911–1912 at the corner of Celetná Street and Ovocný trh in Prague, a National Cultural Monument.
Industrial Palace Place
An Art Nouveau iron-and-glass building at the Prague Exhibition Grounds, built for the Jubilee Land Exhibition of 1891 and restored in 2026 after the…
King's Court Place
The vanished residence of Bohemian monarchs in Prague's Old Town from around 1380, on whose site the Municipal House now stands.
Lesser Town Bridge Towers Place
The Lesser Town Bridge Towers are two towers linked by a gate at the western, Lesser Town end of Charles Bridge. They form the entrance from the…
Libuš metro station on Line D Work
The Libuš metro station on Line D is part of Line D of the Prague Metro, which is now under construction, which will link Náměstí Míru with Písnice…
Municipal House (Prague) Place
The Municipal House is a representative building of the City of Prague on Náměstí Republiky, built in 1906–1911 to a design by the architects Antonín…
National Theatre Place
A Czech theatre institution with four ensembles and four stages, and its historic building on Národní, opened in 1881 and, after a fire, again in…
Old Town Bridge Tower Place
The Old Town Bridge Tower is a Gothic tower with a gateway at the eastern, Old Town end of Charles Bridge. It stands on the first pier of the bridge.…
Old Town Hall Place
A complex of buildings on Old Town Square in Prague, the seat of the Old Town administration and, from 1784, of the administration of all Prague, with…
Powder Tower (Prague) Place
The Powder Tower is a Late Gothic tower on the boundary of the Old and New Towns in Prague, at Náměstí Republiky. The Royal Route to Prague Castle…
Prague Castle Place
A castle complex in Prague, the seat of Bohemian princes and kings since the 9th century and of the presidents of the republic since 1918.
Prague Metro Line C Place
The oldest line of the Prague Metro, opened on 9 May 1974; it runs from Letňany through the centre and across the Nusle Bridge to Háje.
Senate of the Czech Republic Organisation
The Senate of the Czech Republic is the upper chamber of the Parliament of the Czech Republic. The Constitution vests legislative power in Parliament,…
St Vitus Cathedral Place
St Vitus Cathedral at Prague Castle, founded in 1344 and completed in 1929; the coronation church of the Bohemian kings.
Trade Fair Palace Place
A functionalist building in Prague's Holešovice from 1925-1928, built for the Prague Sample Fairs; restored after a fire in 1974 for the National…
Villa Müller Place
A villa in Střešovice designed in 1928–1930 by Adolf Loos with Karel Lhota; a national cultural monument managed by the Prague City Museum.

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Municipal House in a perspective drawing by architect Antonín Balšánek, the Powder Tower on the left — Drawing: Antonín Balšánek (1865–1921), 1903 · public domain · Wikimedia Commons