Wenceslas Square most significant buildings

Less a square than a boulevard, Wenceslas Square has the shape of a very long (750 m, total area 45,000 m²) rectangle.

Wenceslas Square, dominated by the grand neoclassical Czech National Museum and the Statue of St. Wenceslas

The two obvious landmarks of Wenceslas Square are at the southeast, uphill end: the 1885–1891 National Museum Building, designed by Czech architect Josef Schulz, and the statue of Wenceslas. Other significant buildings on the square include:

• Antonin Pfeiffer and Matěj Blecha’s Palác Koruna office building and shopping center
• Lindt Building, No. 4, an early work of architectural constructivism
• the BAŤA shoe store, No. 6, 1929
• Adam Pharmacy, No. 8, 1911–1913
• Jan Kotěra’s Peterka Building, No. 12, 1899–1900
• Pavel Janák’s Hotel Juliš, No. 22, 1926
• Alois Dryák’s Hotel Evropa, #25–27, 1905 redesign, with architectural sculptor Ladislav Šaloun
• Antonin Wiehl’s Wiehl House, No. 34, 1896
• the Melantrich Building, No. 36, 1914, where Alexander Dubček and Václav Havel appeared together on its balcony in November 1989, a major event of the Velvet Revolution
• Hotel Adria, No 26, reconstruction in 1912, in 1918 sold to František Tichý, Burian’s Theatre (1925–1928)