Malostranské Square There is a square under the Prague Castle that was gradually formed and functioned as a market place of merchants, often from Italy and Germany. In the 13th century it turned into an independent municipality
Malostranské Square
There is a square under the Prague Castle that was gradually formed and functioned as a market place of merchants, often from Italy and Germany. In the 13th century it turned into an independent municipality. Behind the Castle, there was established a new town complex called Hradčany, where craftsmen settled down under Charles IV. repairing the castle and building the cathedral of St. Vitus. Opposite the Lesser Town across the Vltava River, the Old Town of Prague gradually emerged, supplemented in the 14th century by the New Town of Prague, founded by Charles IV. As a result, Prague was larger than Paris in the mid-14th century. In the 17th century St. Nicholas temple was built and in the spirit of Baroque culture by the famous architect Kylián Ignác Dientzenhofer and it became a dominant feature of the place. The church belonged to the Jesuit Order and today it is considered one of the most important works of this architect. In the photo below the text there is a statue of a saint. Who is the third Saint from the right of this statue. Opposite the temple, the Holy Trinity Plague Column was built as a gratitude for the end of the Great Plague Epidemic of 1713. Jan Neruda grew up in the Lesser Town in the 19th century. From the Prague Castle across the Lesser Town to Prague Old Town there was formerly only one possible way and it was across Charles Bridge, which was for a long time the only stone bridge linking the two banks of Prague.