Old Town square

Through the narrow street you get on Old Town square, which is the most beautiful in old Prague

Previously it was the main square in Old Town, it was a market. Merchants always came here and sold their goods. Townspeople came here to buy something, to observe other people, to share city’s news. Also here was a place for executions too. The criminals were executed on this square. To watch the executions use to come here the whole families with a small kids even! Because it was like a show at that time. It was something interesting, what didn’t seens every day. And also the parents wanted to show their children how not to behave and what not to do in order not to be executed - this is such an element of education.

Once, 27 Czech nobles were executed here after religion battle on the White Mountain (this is Prague’s district currently). They were beheaded and their heads were hang on on the Charles bridge for 10 years to scare people.

It says, that every midnight the souls of these nobles fly out from the towers of Tyn church.

Photo: Alesia - guide in Prague