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On 26 September 2009 Pope Benedict XVI declared the church and the Infant Jesus the first station on the Apostolic Road in the Czech Republic. The Pontiff also donated a gold crown, decorated with eight shells, pearls, and garnet gemstones to the Infant Jesus of Prague, which rests above the statue today.
Lennon Wall in August 1981. Portion of the wall, 1993. Extinction Rebellion mural, 2019. The Wall after a new repainting, October 2022. The Lennon Wall (Czech: Lennonova zeď) or John Lennon Wall (Czech: Zeď Johna Lennona) is a wall in Prague, Czech Republic.
The Archdiocese of Prague (Praha) ( Latin: Archidioecesis Pragensis; Czech: Arcidiecéze pražská) is a Metropolitan Latin archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Bohemia, in the Czech Republic . The cathedral archiepiscopal see is St. Vitus Cathedral, in the Bohemian and Czech capital Prague, entirely situated inside the Prague Castle complex.
David Kozák (12 August 1999 – 21 December 2023) was a Czech mass murderer and postgraduate student at Charles University.He is responsible for the 2023 Prague shootings in which he attacked the Faculty of Arts in Prague, and killed a man and his infant daughter in Klánovice six days prior.
In September 2006, the President's Office ceded the administration to the Metropolitan Chapter. However, in February 2007, the Supreme Court of the Czech Republic reversed the decision of the City Court and returned the case to the common court. In September 2007, the District Court of Prague 7 decided that the cathedral is owned by the Czech ...
Štvanice. Coordinates: 50°5′45″N 14°26′17″E. Štvanice island in 1910. Štvanice is an island on the Vltava river in Prague, Czech Republic. It is located in the Prague district of Holešovice. At the end of the 17th century, a wooden arena was built there. Until 1816, the island was used for dog hunts involving various animals such ...
The church was built in the 13th century for the Franciscans. It was built in the Gothic architecture style. The foundation of the original church was related to the acquisition of the relics of Ottokar I of Bohemia. The exact location of this original church and its appearance are not known, since the church was destroyed in a fire in 1689.
The Prague astronomical clock or Prague Orloj ( Czech: Pražský orloj [praʃskiː orloj]) is a medieval astronomical clock attached to the Old Town Hall in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic . The clock was first installed in 1410, making it the third-oldest astronomical clock in the world and the oldest clock still in operation.