Hradčany

It was built as a subject town controlled by the Castle Burgrave. It was enlarged by Pohořelec under Charles IV. Rudolph II raised it to a royal town in 1598. In 1748, it was merged with other

Prague towns on grounds of Joseph’s II reforms.

Schwarzenberg

Palace A major monument of the so-called Bohemian Renaissance of 1545-63 designed by Augustin Vlach. The sgraffiti come from 1567. Nowadays, it houses the

Museum of

Military History.

Tuscan

Palace

Building constructed to the design of J.B.Mathey for Count M.O.Thun-Hohenstein in 1689-91. In 1718, the palace became the possession of the Dukes of Tuscany. Owned by the state today, the building is used by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The restoration of the

Tuscan Palace in 1994-98 was awarded to the Society of Czech Architects Grand Prix in the category Restoration.

Sternberg

Palace
High Baroque building designed by architects G. B.Alliprandi and G. Santini from 1698-1708. It houses the National Gallery collections of old European Art (Flemish, Dutch and German paintings).

Archbishop’s Palace
Residence of

Prague archbishops. Rebuilt in the Baroque style in the latter half of the 17th century. Its present Rococo appearance dates to 1764-65.

Strahov Monastery 
The oldest Premonstratensian monastery in Bohemia, founded by Prince Vladislav II and Jindřich Zdík, Bishop of Olomouc, in 1140. Destroyed in the Hussite wars; the present shape of the monastery is Baroque from the latter half of the 17th and early 18th centuries.

Czernin

Palace
The largest Baroque palace in

Prague built 1669–97, designed by F.Carrati. Served as barracks in the 19th century, and houses the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at present.

Loreto
The Prague Loreto can be viewed not only as an architectural monument but also as a Baroque pilgrimage site, the fame of which can be, in the context of the town, compared perhaps only with the renown of the statue of the Infant Jesus of Prague.
The history of the pilgrimage site began by the laying of the foundation stone of the Holy Hut June 3, 1626.
The appearance of the place changed gradually over the course of the 17th and 18th centuries, though its interior was partly remodeled as late as in the 19th century. A new treasury, open to the public, was built in the 1950s and 1960s.

The pilgrimage site is designed as a self-contained complex of buildings around the central Holy Hut, with a rectangular arcaded yard (unlike the Italian Loreto, where the Casa is situated inside the pilgrimage church).
In the original plan of the 1660s, the present Church of the Nativity of Our Lord (along the longitudinal axis) and two of the chapels (amid the northern and southern wings) were mere shallow altar alcoves. As the fame of the Loreto grew, the number of visitors increased and it was necessary to enlarge the liturgical spaces of the pilgrimage site. Therefore, gradually (until the end of the 17th century) larger oblong chapels were built in the yard corners. Subsequently, two chapels on the transversal axis were enlarged and the Chapel of the Nativity of Our Lord was rebuilt in several phases into a spatial church.

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