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Wenceslas Square
The long boulevard of the New Town, where crowds gathered for the Velvet Revolution of 1989, below the National Museum.
- Open
- Always
- Price
- Free; paid for the museum
- Time Needed
- 45 minutes
- Address
- Václavské náměstí, 110 00 Prague 1Directions
- Getting There
- Můstek or Muzeum station.
Why Go
The square has seen the city's great moments: the protests of 1968, the student Jan Palach's self-immolation in 1969, and the rallies of 1989 that ended communism. The statue of St. Wenceslas stands at its top, before the National Museum.
Today it's a shopping boulevard.
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