Charles Bridge
A medieval stone arch bridge across the Vltava, begun in 1357 under King Charles IV. It is closed to traffic and lined with Baroque statues, and links the Old Town with the Lesser Town beneath Prague Castle.
- Where
- Prague, Czechia
- Grade
- UNESCO heritage
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site, plus 8 for its grade
- Coordinates
- 50.0864, 14.4119
Get the Charles Bridge stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Charles Bridge. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your Prague volume with your photos and a note.
Near Charles Bridge
Clementinum 0.3 km
A vast complex of Jesuit buildings beside Charles Bridge, begun in the 16th century. It houses the National Library, the richly frescoed Baroque Library Hall and an astronomical tower used for weather and time observations.
Lennon Wall 0.4 km
A wall on Velkopřevorské Square in the Lesser Town, covered in graffiti, song lyrics and messages of peace. It began after John Lennon was killed in 1980, when young Czechs wrote on it as a quiet protest against the communist regime.
Bethlehem Chapel 0.5 km
A reconstructed Gothic style chapel in the Old Town, founded in 1391 for sermons in Czech. The reformer Jan Hus preached here from 1402, and it became a cradle of the Bohemian Reformation.
Rudolfinum 0.5 km
A neo Renaissance concert hall and gallery on the bank of the Vltava, opened in 1885 and named after Crown Prince Rudolf. It is the home of the Czech Philharmonic, whose main venue is the Dvořák Hall.
Pinkas Synagogue 0.5 km
A Gothic synagogue at Široká 3 in Prague's Jewish Town, completed in 1535 and the second oldest surviving synagogue in the city. Its walls are inscribed with the names of Czech and Moravian Jews murdered in the Holocaust, and it is now part of the Jewish Museum.
Old Jewish Cemetery 0.5 km
A crowded burial ground in Josefov used from the 15th to the 18th century. Thousands of gravestones stand layered in a small space, and the oldest known one dates from 1439. Rabbi Loew is buried here.
Klausen Synagogue 0.5 km
A former synagogue in the Jewish Town of Prague, near the Old Jewish Cemetery. The present Baroque building dates from the late 1600s, and it is now part of the Jewish Museum, with exhibitions on Jewish customs and traditions.
Maisel Synagogue 0.5 km
A synagogue in the Jewish Quarter, founded at the end of the 16th century by the mayor Mordechai Maisel and later rebuilt in neo Gothic style. It now holds an exhibition of Jewish history in the Czech lands.
More UNESCO World Heritage sites in Prague
Questions
Where is Charles Bridge?
Charles Bridge is in Prague, Czechia. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Clementinum (0.3 km), Lennon Wall (0.4 km), Bethlehem Chapel (0.5 km).
How do I get the Charles Bridge stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Charles Bridge and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your Prague volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to Charles Bridge before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your Prague volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
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