Czech Republic
Central Bohemia
Prague

New Town and Vysehrad

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.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Prague - Main railway station and National Library of the Czech Republic.

Railway station
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Praha hlavní nádraží is the largest railway station in , . It opened in 1871 as Franz Josef Station, after Franz Joseph I of Austria.

Library
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The is the central library of the . It is directed by the Ministry of Culture. The library's main building is located in the historical Clementinum building in the centre of , where approximately half of its books are kept.

Government building
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The was established in 1992 by the Czech National Council as the Czech successor of the former Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and its tradition goes back to the Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences and the Emperor Franz Joseph Czech Academy for Sciences, Literature and Arts.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Old Town and Josefov and Castle and Lesser Town.

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The right bank section of District Prague 1, the oldest settled area, consists of the Old Town of and the Jewish Town.

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Both in district Prague 1, Castle district of is the highest part of the city while the Lesser Town of is the lower area on the left bank.

Suburb
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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.

New Town and Vysehrad

Latitude
50.0767° or 50° 4′ 36″ north
Longitude
14.4264° or 14° 25′ 35″ east
Open location code
9F2P3CGG+MH
Wiki­data ID
Q33266260
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In Other Languages

From Hebrew to Italian—“New Town and Vysehrad” goes by many names.
  • Hebrew: “העיר החדשה ורובע וישהראד”
  • Italian: “Nové Město e Vyšehrad”

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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “New Town and Vysehrad”. Photo: Digr, CC BY-SA 4.0.