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coronation jewels were put on
display once a year. In 1382, the
tower was replaced by a chapel,
from which, in 1437, concessions
made to the Hussites by the
pope at the Council of Basle
were read out to the populace.

w Cathedral of
St Cyril and
St Methodius
Katedrála Sv. Cyrila a Metoděje
Sculptures on the façade of the Jesuit College by Tomasso Soldati Resslova 9. Map 5 B2. Tel 224 920 686.
X Karlovo náměstí. v 3, 4, 6, 10, 16,
9 Church of of their formidable education 18, 22, 24. Museum: Open 9am–5pm
St Ignatius system. The college was built Tue–Sun (Nov–Mar: Tue–Sat). Church:
Open 8–9:30am Sat, 9am–noon Sun.
Kostel Sv. Ignáce between 1656 and 1702 by 5 8am Tue, 8am & 5pm Sat,
Carlo Lurago and Paul Ignaz 9:30am Sun. & ^ 7
Ječná 2. Map 5 C2. Tel 221 990 200. Bayer. The two sculptured portals
X Karlovo náměstí. v 3, 4, 6, 10, 16, are the work of Johann Georg ∑ pamatnik-heydrichiady.cz
18, 22, 24. Open 6am–noon & 3:30– Wirch who extended the building This Baroque church, with a
6:30pm daily. 5 6:15am, 7:30am &
5:30pm Mon–Sat (6:30am Sat); 7am, in 1770. After the suppression pilastered façade and a small
9am, 11am (in Latin) & 5:30pm Sun. of the Jesuit order in 1773, the central tower, was built in the
∑ kostelignac.cz college was converted into a 1730s. It was dedicated to St
military hospital. It is now part Charles Borromeo and served
With its wealth of gilding and of Charles University. as the church of a community
flamboyant stucco decoration, of retired priests, but both were
St Ignatius is typical of the closed in 1783. In the 1930s, the
Baroque churches built by the q Charles Square church was restored and given
Jesuits to impress people with Karlovo Náměstí to the Czechoslovak Orthodox
the glamour of their faith. The Map 5 B2. X Karlovo náměstí. Church, and rededicated to
architects – Carlo Lurago, who v 3, 4, 6, 10, 16, 18, 22, 24. St Cyril and St Methodius, the
started work on the church in 9th- century “Apostles to the
1665, and Paul Ignaz Bayer, who Since the mid-19th century, the Slavs” (see pp22–3). In May 1942,
added the tower in 1687 – were square has been a park. Though parachutists who assassinated
also responsible for the adjoining surrounded by busy roads, it is a Reinhard Heydrich, the Nazi
Jesuit College. pleasant but somewhat shabby governor of Czechoslovakia, hid
The painting on the high altar place to sit and read or watch in the crypt along with members
of The Glory of St Ignatius (St people walking their dogs. of the Czech Resistance. Sur-
Ignatius Loyola, founder of the The square began life as a vast rounded by German troops, they
Jesuit order) is by Jan Jiří Heinsch. cattle market, when Charles IV took their own lives rather than
The Jesuits continued to founded the New Town in surrender. Bullet holes made
embellish the interior right 1348. Other goods sold by German machine guns
up until the suppression of in the square included during the siege can still
their order in 1773, adding firewood, coal and pickled be seen below the
stuccowork and statues of herring from barrels. memorial plaque on
Jesuit and Czech saints. In the centre of the the outer wall of the
market, Charles had crypt, which now
a wooden houses a
0 Jesuit College tower built, museum of
Jezuitská Kolej where the these times.
Karlovo náměstí 36. Map 5 B2.
X Karlovo náměstí. v 3, 4, 6, 10, 14,
16, 18, 21, 22, 24. Closed to the public.
Half the eastern side of Charles
Square is occupied by the former
college of the Jesuit order in the
New Town. As in other parts of
Prague, the Jesuits were able to
demolish huge swathes of the
city to put up another bastion Main altar in the Cathedral of St Cyril and St Methodius

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