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For the whole centuries kings had their residence down in the town close the Powder Tower on the site of the present Municipal House. The Royal Way was the link between the king?s court and St. Vitus Cathedral.

The Royal route begins at the Powder Tower, runs the Celetná street, across Old Town Square and Little Square, Charles Bridge, along Malostranske Square and all the way up Nerudova street to the Prague Castle. The route is about two and half kilometres long.

Celetná street is the artery of the Old Town of Prague and a textbook of architectural styles. Examples of the earliest, Romanesque, style may be found in the basement of virtually every house on this street (with the spaces currently used as wine bars and restaurants) because over the centuries the ground level has sunk by several metres. Near from the Celetná street is the Theatre of Estates and not far from here stands the Carolinum.

Dům U černé Matky Boží (House at the Black Mother of God) one of the best-known examples of Cubist architecture in Prague, designed by the architect Josef Gočár and built in the year 1911-12. It houses a permanent exhibition of Czech Cubism.
A passageway leads to St. James's Church one of Prague's most beautiful Baroque churches, built in the 13th century, rebuilt in the Early Baroque style at the beginning of the 18th century.) Staroměstské náměstí (Old Town Square) is the most important square of the oldest part of the royal town of Prague and the centre of its eventful history. The astronomical clock (Orloj) of the Old Town Hall has figures of the twelve apostles, appearing in the tiny windows on the hour during the day, and mechanical figures of Vanity, Greed, Death, and Turk in the upper part.

Passing by the Old Town Hall and by the Renaissance house U minuty (At the Minute) you arrive at the Malé náměstí square in the centre of which stands a fountain with a Renaissance grille. Then take Karlova street with many medieval houses, among which house No. 156 with Venetian Renaissance gables is probably the Prague's first café Deodata Damajana was opened in the early 18th century. On the right side of the street stands the Clementinum.

The bridge tower on the Old Town side of Charles Bridge was built at the same time as the Gothic bridge by Charles IV in the year1357 as not only a fortified tower but also a symbolic triumphal arch on the Bohemian kings' coronation route. This is attested by the rich sculpted decorations on its eastern facade. Inside the tower is an exhibition of old musical instruments from the National Museum collections.

Mostecká tower connects Charles Bridge with Malá Strana's central square. Most of the houses on Mostecká have Gothic or Renaissance ground plans, and some have house signs on their Baroque facades.
Malostranské náměstí (Lesser Town square) is the central square of the Lesser Town of Prague. The Church of St. Nicholas was built in the centre of the square as early as the 13th century. The present-day church is an 18th-century Baroque structure, built by Christopher Dientzenhofer and his son Kilian Ignaz. It is one of the finest examples of Bohemian Baroque.
Nearly all the houses and palaces at the lower end of the square have arcades. Probably the most interesting are the early 18th-century Kaiserstein Palace with a memorial tablet commemorating the stay here by the famous Czech singer Emma Destin and the corner house of the former Malá Strana town hall.

Behind the corner stands yet another architectural gem, namely the Church of St. Thomas, Among the palaces at the lower end of the square two other Baroque structures merit attention. The Sternberg Palace and the adjacent Smiřický Palace make a part of the compound housing the Czech Parliament. The western side of the square is by the Liechtenstein Palace occupied. The building houses the academy of music and is often the venue of concerts. Mariánský sloup in the middle of this part of the square is an early 18th-century Baroque structure with statues of Bohemia's patrons saint.

Take Nerudova street leading upwards to Prague Castle. Named after the poet and journalist Jan Neruda, who lived at No 47 in the House of Two Suns, it is the picturesque narrow street that leads up to Prague castle. There is a splendid selection of heraldic beasts and emblems on the houses, for example the Red Eagle, the Three Fiddles, the Golden Horseshoe, the Green lobster and the White Swan. There are also a number of grand Baroque buildings, such as the Thun-Hohenstain Palace, the Morzin Palace, and the Church of Our Lady of Unceasing Succour. The lower part of the street (up to the Church of Our Lady) was once a part of the medieval town. The houses here have behind them an eventful history, with some remains of the Gothic period, but most of the burghers' houses rebuilt in the Renaissance style and some replaced by huge Baroque palaces. The most remarkable among the latter are the Morzin Palace and Thun-Hohenstein Palace, both designed by the Baroque architect Johann Blasius Santini. The former palace is with sculptures by Ferdinand Maxmilian Brokoff decorated.

The house U dvou slunců bears a memorial tablet recalling that leading Czech author Jan Neruda after whom the street was named lived here.

Turn right at the end of Nerudova street and you have arrived at Prague Castle.

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