WENCESLAS SQUARE, Presentation

Hi, my name’s Rick, and I’m your personal guide. Along with MyWoWo, I’d like to welcome you to one of the wonders of the world: Wenceslas Square.

Wenceslas Square is more like an avenue than a square: it’s 750 meters long, with a width of 63 meters at the top end and 48 meters at the bottom end.

At one end, it is dominated by the large National Museum building, and at the Mustek end (meaning little bridge, recalling the bridge that once crossed the medieval moat), by the statue of Saint Wenceslas.

Characterized by long central flowerbeds, it is surrounded by large buildings erected between the late-19th and early-20th century, in styles somewhere between Historicism and Art Nouveau.

The square is considered the heart of the New Town....