svatý Petr na Poříčí
Czechia
Look up from Biskupská street in Prague's New Town and the first thing that holds you is the pair of towers on the west front. They are the oldest part of what you see, surviving from a Romanesque basilica raised in the second half of the 12th century, under King Vladislav I, as the parish church of the German community of Poříčí, a settlement that has since vanished. Most of the church around them is now Gothic, the result of several rebuilds, and it is still a working Roman Catholic church, run by the Knights of the Cross with the Red Star. Even the street names carry its history. From 1561 to 1694, and later, Prague's archbishops were automatically grand masters of the order, so its court came to be called the Biskupský dvůr, the Bishop's Court. That name survives in the street to the south, and Biskupská, running along the west side, points to the same past.
- Written with AI from the Wikipedia article Kostel svatého Petra na Poříčí (cs.wikipedia.org); facts only from there
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