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VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
Practical Information
Malostranské náměstí. Map 2 E3.
Tel 257 534 215. Open 9am–5pm
daily (Nov–Mar: to 4pm). & 5
8:30pm Sun. ^ Belfry: Tel 725
847 927. Open 10am–6pm daily
(Apr–Sep: to 10pm; Mar & Oct: to
8pm). & ∑ stnicholas.cz
Transport
X Malostranská. v 12, 20, 22.

. Dome Fresco
František Palko’s fresco, The Celebration
of the Holy Trinity (1753–4), fills the 70-m
(230-ft)-high dome.

Entrance to Belfry
High Altar
. Statues of the Church Fathers A copper statue of St Nicholas by
The great teachers by Ignaz Platzer stand Ignaz Platzer surmounts the high
at the four corners of the transept. St Cyril altar. Below it, the painting of
dispatches a pagan with his crozier. St Joseph is by Johann Lukas Kracker,
who also painted the nave fresco.

The Dientzenhofer Family
Christoph Dientzenhofer (1655–1722)
came from a family of Bavarian
master builders. His son Kilian Ignaz
(1689–1751) was born in Prague and
educated at the Jesuit Clementinum
(see p81). They were responsible for the
greatest treasures of Jesuit-influenced
Prague Baroque architecture. The
Church of St Nicholas, their last work,
was completed by Kilian’s son-in-law,
Anselmo Lurago. Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer

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