Panna Marie na Slovanech
Czechia
Stand on Vyšehradská street at the southern edge of Prague's New Town and look up, and the first thing you notice is not Gothic at all. Two curved concrete wings sweep upward from the west front, crossing like a pair of sails or a steepled hand. They are modern, and they are the answer to a wound: the church's twin western towers were destroyed in an Allied bombing raid on 14 February 1945. Behind that startling façade lies one of the churches Charles IV built, the heart of the Emmaus monastery, known also as Emauzy or the monastery Na Slovanech. The whole Gothic complex was declared a national cultural monument in 1978.
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