One of the most popular tourist locations. An elongated square with a square in the middle is surrounded by palaces that once belonged to the richest families in Bohemia. Salmovsky, Schwarzenberg, Tuscan, Martinitsky, Archbishop's palaces. Now some of them have museums, others - government agencies. On the square is the main entrance to Prague Castle, there is a change of honor guard of the Presidential Palace. In the center of the square is a plague column, a large chandelier of gas lighting (one of the three preserved in Prague).→