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PRAGUE MAIN TRAIN STATION
(Praha Hlavní Nádraží; Wilsonova; closed 12.40-3.15am; Hlavní Nádraží)
What? The rail-
way station is a tourist attraction? Perhaps not all of it, but it's certainly worth heading
to the top floor for a look at the grimy, soot-blackened splendour of the original art-
nouveau entrance hall that was designed by Josef Fanta and built between 1901 and
1909.
The dilapidated, domed interior is adorned with a mosaic of two nubile ladies, the
Latin inscription
Praga: mater urbium
(Prague, Mother of Cities) and the date
'28.října r:1918' (28 October 1918, Czechoslovakia's Independence Day). The hall is