Lumír and Píseň
Lumír and Song is an outdoor sculpture made by Josef Václav Myslbek in 1889-1897 for Palacký Bridge. Damaged from American bombing on February 14, 1945, statues were removed in 1948 in connection with the bridge reconstruction and installed at Vyšehradské sady in Vyšehrad, Prague, Czech Republic.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Another Believer, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Work of art
- Artwork type: statue
- Description: Sculpture in Prague, Czech Republic
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Saint Peter and Saint Paul and The Old Burgrave’s Residence.
Saint Peter and Saint Paul
Church
Photo: VitVit, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Basilica of St. Peter and St. Paul is a neo-Gothic collegiate and parish church in Vyšehrad fortress in Prague, Czech Republic. Founded in 1070–1080 by the King Vratislaus II of Bohemia, the Romanesque basilica suffered a fire in the year 1249 and has been rebuilt in Gothic and later in neo-Gothic style.
The Old Burgrave’s Residence
Public building
Photo: Podpsa, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Old Burgrave’s Residence is a public building, which is situated 110 metres south of Lumír and Píseň.
The Devil’s Pillar
Photo: Miaow Miaow, Public domain.
Devil's Column is a formation of three stone columns, located in Vyšehrad, Prague, Czech Republic. For the first time, it was mentioned in the book Bellum hussiticum as fragments of one column, standing on the cemetery of the St. The Devil’s Pillar is situated 130 metres east of Lumír and Píseň.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Smíchov and New Town and Vysehrad.
Smíchov
Suburb
Photo: VitVit, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Smíchov has, since 1922, been a district and cadastral area of Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic, and is part of Prague 5. It is on the west bank of the Vltava river.
New Town and Vysehrad
Photo: Digr, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The New Town of Prague is in the east bank area to the east and south of the Old Town. A large part of New Town that borders Old Town from east and south belongs to Praha 1 district.
New Town
Suburb
Photo: Digr, CC BY-SA 4.0.
New Town is a quarter in the city of Prague in the Czech Republic. New Town is the youngest and largest of the five independent towns that today comprise the historic center of modern Prague.
Lumír and Píseň
- Categories: statue and tourism
- Location: Praha 2, Prague 2, Prague, Central Bohemia, Czech Republic, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
50.06392° or 50° 3′ 50″ northLongitude
14.41745° or 14° 25′ 3″ eastInception
1888Open location code
9F2P3C78+HXOpenStreetMap ID
node 1200812866OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=artworkOpenStreetMap attribute
artwork_type=statueWikidata ID
Q24971126
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In Other Languages
From Czech to Russian—“Lumír and Píseň” goes by many names.
- Czech: “Lumír a Píseň”
- Russian: “Люмир и аллегория песни”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include základy knížecí akropole and Remains of the Portal of the Baroque Armory.
Nearby Places
Explore places such as Přemysl a Libuše and Rio’s Vyšehrad.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Lumír and Píseň”. Photo: Another Believer, CC BY-SA 4.0.