Historic sights in Prague
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Národní Třída
Národní třída (National Ave) is central Prague’s ‘high street’, a stately row of midrange shops and grand public buildings, notably the National Theatre at the Vltava River end.
Fronting Jungmannovo náměstí, at the eastern end, is an imitation Venetian palace known as the Adria Palace. Its distinctive, chunky architectural style, dating from the 1920s, is known as ‘rondocubism’. Note how the alternating angular and rounded window pediments echo similar features in neoclassical baroque buildings such as the Černin Palace.
Beneath it is the Adria Theatre, birthplace of Laterna Magika and meeting place of Civic Forum in the heady days of the Velvet Revoluti…
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