by Susan | Aug 31, 2026 | Monuments
This equestrian statue by Karel Nepraš was installed in the Žižkov district of Prague, Czech Republic in 2005, having been completed by Karolína Neprašová after her father’s death. It is located in an area where Hašek lived during writing of his famous novel The...
by Susan | May 27, 2024 | Monuments
A student who committed suicide by dousing himself in gasoline and setting himself on fire in political protest, Jan Palach killed himself on January 16, 1969, after the Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia in what has come to be called the Prague Spring. He died three...
by Susan | Apr 15, 2024 | Monuments
The Memorial to the victims of Communism commemorates the victims of the communist era between 1948 and 1989. It was unveiled on the 22 May 2002, twelve years after the fall of communism in the Eastern Bloc, and is the work of Czech sculptor Olbram Zoubek and...
by Susan | Jan 29, 2024 | Monuments
Jan Hus was a Czech (then Bohemia and Moravia) theologian and philosopher who became a church reformer and an inspirer of Hussitism, a key predecessor to Protestantism. On July 6, 1415, he was burned at the stake for heresy against the doctrines of the Catholic...
by Susan | Dec 6, 2021 | Monuments
This small bronze plaque, the Velvet Revolution Monument, marks the spot where hundreds of nonviolently protesting college students were brutally beaten by riot police on the night of November 17, 1989, the 50th anniversary of when the Nazis stormed Prague in 1939 and...
