Old Town Bridge Tower

Lonely Planet review

Perched at the eastern end of Charles Bridge, the elegant late-14th-century tower was, like the bridge itself, designed by Petr Parler. Here, at the end of the Thirty Years' War, an invading Swedish army was finally repulsed by a band of students and Jewish ghetto residents. Today, it houses a fairly humdrum collection of vintage musical instruments, but the main attraction is the amazing view from the top.

Looking out from the eastern face of the tower towards Karlova are the figures of SS Adalbert and Procopius, and below them Charles IV, St Vitus and Wenceslas IV. The tower also features a bit of 'Gothic porn': look below these worthies on the left-hand corner of the tower, just above the bridge parapet, and you'll find a stone carving of a man with his hand up the skirt of what appears to be a nun. Naughty.