Eastern and Central Europe (Eyewitness Travel Guides)

244 CENTRAL EASTERN EUROPE

For hotels and restaurants in this region see pp288–91 and pp292–5

Charles Bridge r

Karlův most

Prague’s most familiar monument was built by Peter

Parler (see p236) for Charles IV in 1357 after the Judith
Bridge was destroyed by floods. It connects the Old
Town (Staré Město) with the Little Quarter (Malá Strana)
and was the only bridge across the Vltava until 1741.

Judith Bridge
Tower, 1158

Tower

entrance

St Adalbert (1709)

Adalbert, Bishop of Prague,

founded St Lawrence Church on

Petřin Hill in 991. The Czechs

know him as Vojtěch.

Thirty Years’ War

In the last hours of

this war, Staré Město

was saved from the

Swedish Army. The

truce was signed in

the middle of the

bridge in 1648.

St Cyril and St

Methodius (1938)

The saints

are widely

acknowledged as

the two who intro-

duced Christianity

to the region.

MALÁ STRANA

STARÉ MĔSTO

St John de Matha,

St Felix de Valois and

the Blessed Ivan, 1714

St Philip

Benizi, 1714

Christ between

St Cosmas and

St Damian, 1709

St Wenceslas, 1858

St Vitus,

1714

St Christopher,

1857

St Norbert, St

Wenceslas and St

Sigismund, 1853

St Francis Borgia, 1710 St John the Baptist, 1857 St Joseph, 1854

Malá Strana

Bridge Tower

St Anne, 1707

STAR SIGHTS

. St Luitgard
. St John Nepomuk
. Staré Město Bridge
Tower

St Francis Xavier