Picture description: Prague's Rooftop Creatures: The fascinating characters that have watched the history of Prague unfold beneath them.
Series description: Morning light on one of four winged female figures cornering the Cechuv Bridge. The figures, which hold gold-plated wreaths aloft, were made by Antonin Popp (1850–1915).
Author: Amos Chapple
Picture description: Prague's Rooftop Creatures: The fascinating characters that have watched the history of Prague unfold beneath them.
Series description: A mysterious creature atop a residential building on the waterfront of Prague’s Vltava River.
Author: Amos Chapple
Picture description: Prague's Rooftop Creatures: The fascinating characters that have watched the history of Prague unfold beneath them.
Series description: Statues by Franz Metzner on a former Wiener Bankverein house on Wenceslas Square.
Author: Amos Chapple
Picture description: Prague's Rooftop Creatures: The fascinating characters that have watched the history of Prague unfold beneath them.
Series description: St. George slaying the dragon on a corner of a building on glitzy Parizska Street, near Old Town Square.
Author: Amos Chapple
Picture description: Prague's Rooftop Creatures: The fascinating characters that have watched the history of Prague unfold beneath them.
Series description: A winged figure on the National Museum by Bohuslav Schnirch looking down Wenceslas Square.
Author: Amos Chapple
Picture description: Prague's Rooftop Creatures: The fascinating characters that have watched the history of Prague unfold beneath them.
Series description: Black babies clambering on the stem of the Zizkov Television Tower, the tallest structure in Prague. The 3.5-meter-long babies were made by contemporary Czech artist David Cerny.
Author: Amos Chapple
Picture description: Prague's Rooftop Creatures: The fascinating characters that have watched the history of Prague unfold beneath them. A lamp-headed statue on the roof of the Deym Palace. A lamp-headed statue on the roof of the Deym Palace.
Series description: A lamp-headed statue on the roof of the Deym Palace.
Author: Amos Chapple
Picture description: Prague's Rooftop Creatures: The fascinating characters that have watched the history of Prague unfold beneath them.
Series description: A monument to Atlas holding up the “celestial sphere” atop the Clementinum, an ancient cluster of buildings that includes a working meteorological station in use since 1775. The Atlas statue was made by Matthias Bernard Braun.
Author: Amos Chapple
