Maria, 1518
Five centuries ringing — your dinner's direct neighbour.
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Precisely because everyone is there: Bridge Tower and the Clock queue by hours — here you ride up instantly and sit to coffee among the trusses. The view is different, not lesser: New Town and Wenceslas instead of the Old Town's press — the photographer's second tower, and the refuge on queue days.
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Prague's tallest free-standing belfry: Gothic Jindřišská (1476) was built as St Henry's church's ringer, detached in the centuries' custom — 65 metres amid the shopping street climbing from Wenceslas Square, awaiting discovery despite its address: the city's least-queued tower climb by no comparison. Its interior was renewed modern with a lift (rare for Gothic towers!), ten floors of café, small exhibitions and a Prague bells museum — the summit a glazed restaurant among ancient timber trusses directly beneath the bell: dinner inside a working Gothic tower, its view giving Wenceslas Square and the New Town an angle nothing else gives. Its bell Maria of 1518 still rings — and a thirty-bell carillon plays melodies hourly to the streets below: stand for its moment.
Five centuries ringing — your dinner's direct neighbour.
Square and New Town from a height nothing else gives.
Jindřišská, 110 00 Prague