Maureen Pies
Letna park is a hilly green space running beside the Vltava river.
It's a great place to hang out and relax. On Saturday there appears to be impromptu circus skills workshops.
The buildings within the park provide an insight into the changing times of Prague. First up, the baroque villa built in 1891 for the Jubilee World Fair, which is now a slightly shabby restaurant.
Next on the timeline the prize winning restaurant from the Brussels Expo 58 transported back and carefully reconstructed. Designed by Cubr, Hruby and Pokorny now appears to be an office. Finally the Prague Metronome which occupies the site where an enormous statue of Stalin was dynamited in 1962. The metronome with a 75m hand was built by Vratislav Novak in 1991.
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