The Modern City

Duration: 3 hours
Transport: Walking
Services: experienced local architect as guide, meet and greet at a central location, café reservation
Languages: English, German, French
Group size: Max. 20 pax
Price: individual offer
Not included: food and beverages in the café

Modern architecture in Prague has always been strongly influenced by the historical but generous urbanistic pattern of the medieval town. Boosted by the economic boom of the 1920´s democratic Czhechoslovakia, modern metropolitan palaces emerged along Wenceslas square located in the city center. The former horse market was transformed into a thriving boulevard. A walk through the city´s shopping arcades of the 20´s and 30´s around the Wenceslas square reveals an alternative structure of public walkways and also some masterpieces of the Czech functionalism and contemprorary developments.

Start of the tour at the hotel or at the entrance of the Metro station museum, meet and greet the guide

Upper Wenceslas Sqare
Explanations about the city history of Prague, development of the Wenceslas Square, recent developments

Art déco Shopping arcades
An amazing world of hidden but charming walkways

Coffee break at a characteristic old café

The Golden Cross
Modern and contemporary city palaces embedded in the historic urban matrix

The Dancing House
F.O. Gehry´s contribution to the Embankment of the Vltava river

Visits to several hidden “hofjes”: historic courtyards with housing for the
elderly

End of tour at the hotel or in the city center

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