Prague streets walk 4k: Prague's New Town, Dancing House, Slavonic Island 🇨🇿 Czech Republic HDR ASMR

Today we will continue our walk around Prague streets in New Town district. We will go down to the Vltava, see the Dancing House and take a walk along Slavonic Island.

00:00 The New Town (Czech: Nové Město) is a quarter in the city of Prague in the Czech Republic. New Town is the youngest and most prominent of the five independent (from the Middle Ages until 1784) towns that comprise modern Prague’s historic center. New Town was founded in 1348 by Charles IV just outside the city walls to the east and south of the Old Town and encompassed an area of 7.5 km², about three times the size of the Old Town. The population of Prague in 1378 was well over 40,000, perhaps as much as twice that, making it the 4th most populated city north of the Alps and, by area, the 3rd largest city in Europe. Although New Town can trace its current layout to its construction in the 14th century, only a few churches and administrative buildings survive. New Town has many secular and educational buildings, especially magnificent gothic and baroque churches. These, nevertheless, are not the main drawing points for tourists. New Town’s most famous landmark is Wenceslas Square, originally built as a horse market and now functions as a center of commerce and tourism. In the 15th century, the Novoměstská radnice, or New Town Hall, was the site of the first of the three defenestrations of Prague.
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13:30 The Dancing House (Tančící dům), or Fred and Ginger, is the nickname given to the building on the Rašínovo nábřeží (Rašín Embankment) in Prague, Czech Republic. House was designed by the Croatian-Czech architect Vlado Milunić in cooperation with Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry on a vacant riverfront plot. The construction was completed in 1996. Gehry originally called the house Fred and Ginger (after the dancers Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers – the house resembles a pair of dancers), but this nickname is rarely used. Gehry later discarded his idea, as he was “afraid to import American Hollywood kitsch to Prague.”
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17:30 Slavonic Island (Slovanský ostrov)
This island, the only one on the Vltava River with significant landscaping, is dominated by the spectacular neo-Renaissance Žofín Palace – a traditional venue for balls and concerts, where Ferenc Liszt and Hector Berlioz played, and in 1863 Richard Wagner conducted a concert here.
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19:30 Žofín Palace is a Neo-Renaissance building in Prague, the Czech Republic. It is a cultural center, a venue for concerts, balls, conferences, and exhibitions. It is situated on Slovanský Ostrov (Slavonic Island), an island in the Vltava river in New Town, Prague.
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29 August 2022
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