Further information see HERE.

Further information see HERE.

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).

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.

The building of National Museum, standing near the actual target - the Czech Radio, happened to be in the epicenter of the Prague Uprising as well. Luckily, the museum collections had been moved to the countryside but the building itself suffered a loss. The monumental Neo-Renaissance building by Josef Schulz from 1885–1890 was damaged by the Luftwaffe air bomb on 7 May in the morning.

In the evening on 5 May 1945, the commander of arms SS Carl Friedrich von Pückler-Burghaus issued an order to use the German air force against the Prague insurgents.See Michal Plavec – Filip Vojtášek, Bomby na Květnou neděli. Letecká válka nad Prahou a okolím v březnu až květnu 1945, Svět křídel, Cheb, 2012, pp. 281–293. It started the following day and one of the main targets was the radio building on Vinohradská Street, the area of Wenceslas Square, and the historical centre of the city on the right river bank.

The house At the Kindl'sThe name comes from the note on a photograph by Antonín Alexander from the Monument Board (Prague CIty Archives, Collection of Photographs, sign. A 17007). or the house At the Golden Vulture (or At the Vulture) on the plot between Celetná Street and Fruit Market Square is a building whose beginnings date back to the 13th century. The appearance of the building changed gradually over time.

The house At the White Peacock on Celetná Street near Old Town Square was heavily damaged as part of the targetted attacks on the square and its close vicinity during the May Uprising. The adjacent building At the Vulture (no. 563/I) was also damaged. Only the late Baroque facade, which came from the renovation of the building after 1750, remained from the house At the White Peacock. The house, most likely standing on the site of three medieval houses, was rebuilt again in 1949.RB [Růžena Baťková], čp. 557/I, in: Pavel Vlček a kol., Umělecké památky Prahy.

In the so-called Rychter's (Martinický's) house, Josef Sudek primarily captured the Neo-Classical portico from 1798 by Johann Ludwig Kranner, damaged during the May Uprising. Rychter's house came into being by connecting several older, originally medieval houses in the 18th century and is preserved in the Rococo adaptation from the late 18th century.