The Benedictine monastery Na Slovanech with the church of Our Lady, Sts Jerome, Cyril and Methodius, Adalbert and Prokop was founded in 1347 and consecrated in 1372. It was one of the most important monastic foundations of Charles IV. His intention was to renew the centre of Slavic ecclesiastical education, to draw on the local tradition and spread the knowledge of the faith in the Slavic language among the Czech population.

Palacký Square and its surroundings on the eastern bridgehead of the Palacký Bridge was one of the most affected areas from the accidental bombing by the 8th US Air Force on 14 February 1945. In his pictures of Palacký Bridge, Josef Sudek indirectly captured the square as well. He focused on the surroundings of the square in the large set of photographs of the nearby monastery Na Slovanech, known as Emmaus. In one picture, however, he captured the square itself with the ruined apartment building on the corner of Gorazdova and Na Moráni Streets (Na Moráni 3, no. 360/II).

Further information see HERE.

A stone bridge with seven arches, originally called Podskalský and in 1940–1945 Mozart bridge, was built in 1876–1878 after the design by Bedřich Münzberger and Josef Reiter. On February 14, 1945, the last bridge arch on the side of New Town was hit during a USAAF air raid. At the same time two groups of sculptures with subjects from old Czech tales by the sculptor Josef Václav Myslbek – Lumír and the Song (1888) and Přemysl and Libuše (1982) – were damaged as well.Zdeněk Wirth – Josef Sudek, Pražský kalendář 1946. Kulturní ztráty Prahy 1939–1945, Nakladatelství V.