New Town: Revolutions and Art Nouveau

The stops, in walking order

1. 1

   

   Stop 1: Jubilejní synagoga

   ~15 min here

   Jubilejní synagoga is the building before you: an active Orthodox Jewish synagogue whose façade combines Moorish forms with Art Nouveau design.

2. 2

   

   Stop 2: Museum of Communism

   ~1 hr here

   Behind these doors is Prague’s Museum of Communism, devoted to the communist regime that shaped Czechoslovakia after the war, especially in Prague.

3. 3

   

   Stop 3: Municipal House

   ~3 min here

   Municipal House is Prague’s lavish civic and concert building beside the Powder Gate on Republic Square.

4. 4

   

   Stop 4: Wenceslas Square

   ~3 min here

   Wenceslas Square opens out before you as a broad city boulevard, not a compact plaza.

5. 5

   

   Stop 5: palác Lucerna

   ~3 min here

   Lucerna Palace is a vast entertainment and shopping complex threaded by a glass-roofed passage.

6. 6

   

   Stop 6: National Museum

   ~1 hr here

   Before you is the National Museum’s historic main building.

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