Maison à la Vierge noire

La maison à la Vierge noire (Dům U černé matky Boží) est un bâtiment cubiste dans la Vieille Ville de Prague en Tchéquie. Elle est l'œuvre de l'architecte Josef Gočár qui l'a construite entre 1911 et 1912 pour le marchand Frantisek Josef Herbst. Elle a été conçue pour accueillir son magasin au rez-de-chaussée et au deuxième étage tandis que le premier étage était occupé par le Grand Café Orient. La maison sert de nos jours d'annexe à la galerie nationale de Prague pour ses expositions permanentes et temporaires sur le cubisme après avoir été conçue comme grand magasin. Située sur la « voie royale », elle tire son nom de la vierge noire qui orne un angle du bâtiment et provient d'un des bâtiments baroques situés auparavant à l'emplacement de la maison. Il s'agit d'une copie, la statue originale est conservée dans la maison à la cloche en pierre sur la place de la Vieille-Ville.

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House of the Black Madonna

The House of the Black Madonna (Czech: Dům U Černé Matky Boží) is a cubist building in the Old Town of Prague, Czech Republic. It was designed by Josef Gočár. The first floor houses a café, the Grand Café Orient, with a balcony which overlooks Celetná street. The four upper floors are used by the Museum of Czech Cubism. The building, completed in 1912, is named after the baroque sculpture of a Black Madonna that adorns it, a remnant of an earlier building on the site. It is the earliest example of cubist architecture in Prague. After years of alteration and damage to the original fabric of the building, it was fully restored in 2003.

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Celetná

Celetná (German: Zeltnergasse) is a street in the Old Town, Prague, connecting the Old Town Square with the Powder Gate. It is one of the oldest streets in Prague and is part of the Royal Route. The street is approximately 400 meters long and trams once ran on it, today most of the street has the status of a pedestrian zone.

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Broadway Theatre (Prague)

Broadway Theatre (Czech: Divadlo Broadway) is a theatre in Prague, Czech Republic. It is situated in the Celetná and Na Příkopě streets of the Old Town district of Prague. It opened in 2002. It focuses on production of musicals. Broadway Theatre is a part of the Palace Sevastopol, which was originally built in functionalist style in 1938. The Celetná and Na Příkopě streets are connected by Broadway Passage. The palace is listed in the register of protected buildings. The theatre's first production was the musical Cleopatra, which made its début on 22 February 2002 and featured Bára Basiková, Ilona Csáková, Monika Absolonová and Radka Fišarová alternating in the title role.

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Kolowrat Palace

The Kolowrat Palace (Czech: Kolowratský palác) is a Baroque complex of two Gothic buildings, located at Ovocný trh 4 a 6 in the Old Town part of the Prague 1 district in Prague, Czech Republic. The palace belongs to the Kolowrat family. The family bought the first building in 1670 and the second one in 1697. The original vaults from the early Baroque period are located on the ground floor, and the rooms on the first floor are decorated with Baroque painted-wood ceilings. Around 1948, the palace was nationalized by the government, but after the Velvet Revolution in 1989, the property was returned to the family. In 1993, Count Jindrich Kolowrat-Krakowsky (1897–1996) rented out the palace to the National Theatre for a symbolic annual amount of one Czech koruna. The attic of the palace now houses the Kolowrat Theatre, one of the venues of the National Theatre.

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Church of St. James the Greater (Prague)

The Basilica of St. James (Czech: Bazilika svatého Jakuba Většího) in the Old Town of Prague, Czech Republic. The church is home to the Madonna Pietatis and the tomb of Count Vratislav of Mitrovice.

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