The Wenceslas Square, originally called the Horse Market is the
most famous Prague cultural and business centre. In fact it
is not the real square, it is the boulevard 682 meters long and
60 meters wide, that stretches from the National Museum to
Můstek.
The new form of the St Wenceslas statue comes from
1912, from the sculptor Josef Václav Myslbek. The patron of
the Czech country i s in the sculptural group accompanied by
St Vojtěch, St Prokop, St Ludmilla and St Agnes.