TV Tower

Prague’s tallest landmark – and, depending on your tastes, either its ugliest or its most futuristic feature – is the 216m-tall TV Tower, erected between 1985 and 1992. It dominates the skyline from most parts of the city, and is floodlit at night in the national colours of red, white and blue. The viewing platforms, reached by high-speed lifts, have comprehensive information boards in English and French explaining what you can see; there’s also a restaurant at 66m up. But the most bizarre thing about it is the 10 giant crawling babies with coin-slots for faces that appear to be exploring the outside of the tower – an installation called Miminka (Mummy) by artist David Černý. The tower is built on the site of a former Jewish cemetery. The cemetery was opened after the Old Jewish Cemetery in Josefov was closed, and remained in use until 1890, when the much larger Jewish Cemetery off Vinohradská was opened.