☰Wenceslas Square

The long boulevard at the heart of Nové Město (New Town), more a downhill avenue than a square, named for the 10th-century patron saint of Bohemia whose equestrian statue presides from the top. This is where the Prague Spring of 1968 played out, where Jan Palach set himself alight in 1969, and where hundreds of thousands gathered in November 1989 to bring down Communist rule. The neo-Renaissance National Museum dominates the upper end; the lower end has the best remaining Art Nouveau facades and the famous cubist House of the Black Madonna just off to one side.