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r Charles Bridge (Little Quarter Side)
Karlův Most
Prague’s most familiar monument, Charles Bridge, was
founded by Charles IV in 1357, and connects the Old Town
with the Little Quarter. It is now pedestrianized but at one
time could take four carriages abreast. Many of the statues
on the bridge are copies; the originals are kept in the
Lapidarium of the National Museum (see p162) and at
Vyšehrad (see p181). The Gothic Old Town Bridge Tower
(see p139) is one of the finest buildings of its kind.
.View from Little Quarter
Bridge Tower
The tall pinnacled wedge tower,
gives a superb view of the city of
100 spires. The shorter tower is the
remains of Judith Bridge.
Tower
entrance St Adalbert, 1709
Adalbert, Bishop of Prague, founded the
Church of St Lawrence (see p140) on
Petřín Hill in 991. He is known to the
Czechs as Vojtěch.

KEY
St John de Matha, St Felix de
1 Little Quarter Bridge Tower Valois and the Blessed Ivan, 1714
2 Judith Bridge Tower, 1158 These saints, sculpted by Ferdinand
Brokoff, founded the
3 Steps to Saská Street Trinitarian Order
4 St Wenceslas, 1859 of mendicants to
collect money to
5 Christ between St Cosmas and
St Damian, 1709 buy the freedom
of Christians
6 St Philip Benizi, 1714 enslaved by
7 St Cajetan, 1709 the infidels
8 Steps to Kampa Island (represented
at the foot of
9 St Nicholas Tolentino, 1708 the sculpture).
0 St Augustine, 1708 St Vitus, 1714
q St Jude Thaddaeus, 1708 This engraving of the statue
w St Francis of Assisi, with two shows the 3rd-century martyr
angels, 1855 with the lions which were
supposed to maul him, but
e St Anthony of Padua, 1707 licked him instead. St Vitus is
r St Ludmilla with Little the patron saint of dancers
Václav, 1720 and often invoked against
convulsive disorders.

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