Old Town Square

The square's centre is home to a statue of religious reformer Jan Hus, who was burned at the stake in Konstanz for his beliefs.

The statue known as the Jan Hus Memorial was erected on 6 July 1915 to mark the 500th anniversary of his death.

The crosses were installed during the repairs of the Old Town Hall after the Second World War,[1] while a nearby plaque which lists the names of all 27 victims dates from 1911.

On 3 November 1918, a Marian Column that had been erected in the square shortly after the Thirty Years' War was demolished in celebration of independence from the Habsburg empire.

The Christmas Markets in Old Town Square are the largest Christmas markets in the Czech Republic and are visited by hundreds of thousands of visitors from the Czech Republic and abroad, primarily Germans, Russians, Italians and Britons.