Lumír and Píseň

Lumír and Song is an outdoor sculpture made by Josef Václav Myslbek in 1889-1897 for . 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 , Prague, Czech Republic.
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  • 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.

Church
The Basilica of St. Peter and St. Paul is a neo-Gothic collegiate and church in fortress in , . 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.

Public building
is a public building, which is situated 110 metres south of Lumír and Píseň.

Photo: Miaow Miaow, Public domain.
Devil's Column is a formation of three stone columns, located in , , 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. is situated 130 metres east of Lumír and Píseň.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Smíchov and New Town and Vysehrad.

Suburb
has, since 1922, been a district and cadastral area of , the capital of the , and is part of . It is on the west bank of the river.

The New Town of 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.

Suburb
is a quarter in the city of in the . is the youngest and largest of the five independent towns that today comprise the historic center of modern Prague.

Lumír and Píseň

Latitude
50.06392° or 50° 3′ 50″ north
Longitude
14.41745° or 14° 25′ 3″ east
Inception
1888
Open location code
9F2P3C78+HX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1200812866
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­artwork
Open­Street­Map attribute
artwork_type=­statue
Wiki­data 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.

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