Old Town Hall

The astronomical clock on the tower's south face has been keeping time since 1410, making it one of the oldest still working anywhere. On the hour, figures of the Apostles appear at its windows while a skeleton representing Death rings his bell. The Old Town Hall, signed as Staroměstská radnice, draws nearly 700,000 visitors a year, and many combine the clock with a climb up the tower behind it.

Inside, visitors can see the historic halls and the Gothic chapel, view the Apostles at close range, and explore the Romanesque and Gothic spaces beneath the building. The viewing gallery near the top of the tower looks over the red roofs and spires of the Old Town.

Founded in 1338, the town hall grew by absorbing neighbouring houses. Its neo-Gothic east wing was destroyed during the Prague Uprising in 1945 and never rebuilt. In the paving at the tower's foot, 27 crosses mark the Bohemian leaders executed on the square in 1621.