Spotlight The continuing allure of Wenceslas Square
In this week's Spotlight we take you to one of Prague's most remarkable locations, Wenceslas Square, that expansive boulevard that features some of the city's most significant architecture as well as the most famous of all Czech monuments: a monument to the country's patron saint Wenceslas on horseback, that witnessed all the turmoil of modern Czech history: from the birth of the Czechoslovak state, to the Soviet-led invasion, to the fall of communism in 1989. A square that is also not without controversy: with far too many casinos and prostitutes in the late evenings to remain, well, fully respectable. History and its outcome for Wenceslas Square - that looked at in the programme today.
The statue of Saint Wenceslas
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