Prague New City Hall — Attraction in Prague

City Hall Paternoster Lift. First thing to note is that the lift is inside the City Hall building, as such it is only accessible after 10:00 Monday to Friday. If you go through the huge doors on the front of the building head to either the left or right to get to the other end of the building where the lift is. As this is the City Hall it feels very strange wandering through unchallenged, if feels like you should be here. That said we did nod to a couple of office workers who were probably thinking ‘odd tourists’. You can go through the door on the end of the building near the lift but this isn’t as much fun. From the ground floor it goes up 4 floors but there are none below... that said you can stay on the lift after it passes the last stop... If you dare... No, it’s fine really and you really can’t say you’ve ridden a Paternoster unless you’ve gone over the top and...

The new building of the Town Hall was built in Art Nouveau style by Osvald Polívka in 1909-11. The decoration was guided by J. Mařatka, S. Sucharda a L. Šaloun. The dominant building of the whole Mariánské náměstí stands in the place where the Romanesque church of St. Linhart, demolished in 1798 once stood, and Jaroš´ court is also reminded here round 1298. The torso of a square Romanesque rectangular house remains beneath the western façade, from which the fresco portraits of the kings were uncovered and deposited in the Museum of the City of Prague. The church's relics are located in Linhartská Street. From 1945 it is the seat of the Prague City Hall and the Prague Mayor and offices, which were moved here after the main wing of the Old Town Hall was destroyed in May 1945. The object was equipped with orbital elevators as the...

There is a interesting story behind this statue called (faceless). It's the story of the knight without a face . According to the story, this knight became a statue still alive, because he killed his beloved in an episode of fury, and can only be released, exactly the day he killed her, by a pure person. Surely he will be a statue for a long time, because no one knows when the murder occurred. At least that's what I read on the internet....