CZ · Curated travel guide
Charles Bridge, St. Vitus Cathedral, Villa Tugendhat and 7 more — what each one is, and why it is worth the detour.
Chosen from everything Wikidata knows about Czechia and ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions describe them, which is about as close to "famous" as open data gets. 3 are on UNESCO's World Heritage list.
Medieval stone arch bridge across the Vltava river in Prague, Czechia
A medieval stone arch bridge over the Vltava river in Prague, Czech Republic. King Charles IV had it begun in 1357, and it was completed in the early 15th century.
Photo: A.Savin, FAL
Church in Prague, Czech Republic
Properly the Metropolitan Cathedral of Saints Vitus, Wenceslaus and Adalbert, a Catholic metropolitan cathedral in Prague and seat of the city's Archbishop. It was dedicated to Saint Vitus alone until 1997, and people still usually call it just St. Vitus Cathedral.
Photo: o¬., CC BY 2.0
World Heritage
House in Brno, Czech Republic
A building of architectural importance in Brno, in the Czech Republic, and one of the pioneering prototypes of European modernist architecture. Its designers were Lilly Reich and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, both German architects.
Photo: Thomas Ledl, CC BY 4.0
Building in Prague, Czech Republic
Also called Ginger and Fred, the nickname of the Nationale-Nederlanden building on Rašínovo nábřeží in Prague, Czech Republic. Vlado Milunić, a Croatian-Czech architect, designed it with Frank Gehry, a Canadian-American architect, for an empty plot by the river.
Photo: No machine-readable author provided. Chosovi assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 2.5
Gothic castle in the Czech Republic
A large Gothic castle in Czechia, founded by King Charles IV in 1348. It was used to keep the Imperial Regalia safe, and with them the royal treasures, holy relics and Bohemian crown jewels.
Photo: Jürgen Regel, Marian…, CC BY 3.0
World Heritage
Monument
A Baroque monument in Olomouc, Czech Republic, put up between 1716 and 1754. It was chiefly meant to celebrate the Catholic Church and faith, partly out of gratitude that a plague, which hit Moravia from 1713 to 1715, had ended.
Photo: Michal Maňas, CC BY 4.0
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World Heritage
UNESCO World Heritage Site in Vysočina Region, Czech Republic
A pilgrimage church at Zelená hora, on the edge of Žďár nad Sázavou, Czech Republic, close to the old border of Bohemia and Moravia. It was the last work of Johann Santini Aichel, a Bohemian architect who mixed Borrominiesque Baroque with Gothic references in both structure and ornament.
Photo: Aqalexor, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Medieval astronomical clock in the Czech Republic
Also called the Prague Orloj, a medieval astronomical clock on the Old Town Hall of Prague, capital of the Czech Republic.
Photo: Steve Collis from Melbourne, Australia, CC BY 2.0
City square in Prague, Czechia
One of the chief squares of Prague's New Town, in the Czech Republic, and the heart of its business and cultural life. It has seen many historical events, and is where demonstrations, celebrations and other public gatherings have traditionally been held.
Photo: VitVit, CC BY-SA 4.0
Also called Czechia, and historically Bohemia, a landlocked Central European country. Germany lies to its west, Poland to its northeast, Slovakia to its southeast and Austria to its south. Its hilly land covers 78,871 square kilometers (30,452 sq mi), and its climate is mostly temperate continental and oceanic.
Officially The Czech Republic.
Based on the Wikipedia article, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0: the facts are Wikipedia's, the wording is this site's.
This guide lists 10: Charles Bridge, St. Vitus Cathedral, Villa Tugendhat and Dancing House and others. Villa Tugendhat, Holy Trinity Column, Olomouc and Pilgrimage Church of Saint John of Nepomuk are UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
By machine, from open data, with no human ranking them and nobody able to pay for a place on the list. Everything Wikidata records in Czechia that is a building, a landform, a protected area or a tourist attraction, has coordinates, a photograph and an English Wikipedia article, is ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions wrote about it. Provinces, cities, airports, stations and stretches of sea shared with the neighbours are filtered out.
3 of the 10 in this guide: Villa Tugendhat, Holy Trinity Column, Olomouc and Pilgrimage Church of Saint John of Nepomuk. That is not the full count for Czechia, only the listed sites that made this guide.
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