Staroměstská radnice
Czechia
Stand in Old Town Square and look at the town hall properly, and you will notice it is not one building but a row of houses stitched together. That is exactly what it is. On 18 September 1338 King John of Luxembourg allowed the burghers of the Old Town to buy a house of their own, paid for out of the takings of the Ungelt merchants' court, so they could hold courts and all municipal business there. They chose the house of Wolflin of the Stone, right in the middle of the market, and it became the first town hall in Bohemia. It replaced the old reeve's office on Rytířská Street. Over the following centuries, from the fifteenth to the nineteenth, the town kept buying and rebuilding neighbouring houses until the block reached the 67.45 metres it spans today.
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