The Europa Hotel is a world famous hotel in the center of Wenceslaus Square. The hotels charm remains reminiscent of old Prague. The building of hotel "EUROPE " is located on the famous Wenceslas Square. It was built in 1889; at that time it carried the name "Archduke Stephan" and its design was a masterwork of architect Belsky. In the 1903 - 1905 period the hotel was rebuild into the art nouveau style. Reputed architects Bendelmayer, Hübschmann and Letzel contributed with their designs to the reconstruction. Statues on the front were crafted by sculptor Ladislav Saloun.

:: Location

Superb located hotel in the centre of the cify, on Wenceslas Square - main square in Prague.

:: Accommodation

Hotel provides 90 rooms and 2 suites. Part of the rooms is furnished in the Louis XVI. style The building itself ranks amongst most remarkable architectural sights of the Wenceslas Square.

• All sights within an easy walking distance. Metro station 30 m from the hotel. The hotel offers are 90 rooms hotel, 2 apartments,
• Hotel Cafe, Hotel Bar, Art Nouveau and Pilsener restaurants. Hotel is equipped with two elevators.
• The second floor lobby is an open area that is ideal for informal meetings.
• Hotel Europa is the unique historical building errected in 1889 and later rebuilt into the Art Nouveau style.
• The inseparable part of it are Art Nouveau and Old Bohemian Restaurants as well as famous Cafe. The hotel has an antique, old-time reminding atmosphere.
• The Evropa hotel is very well located in the very centre of the city - on the Wenceslas Square, so the guests can get everywhere very easy and fast by walk. Moreover, the underground stop is only 30 m far from the hotel.

:: Wenceslas Square

Originally a horse market laid out by Emperor Charles IV in 1348, Wenceslas Square was renamed in 1848 to honour one of Prague's two patron saints and martyrs. Measuring 750 metres (820 yards) in length by 60 metres (65 yards) wide, it is more of a boulevard than a square and is lined with hotels, restaurants and exclusive shops; a microcosm of the best and worst of twentieth-century architecture and the city's free-market post-communist legacy.

The square is the central axis of the Nové Mesto (New Town), the hub of Prague life and has been the site of memorable events in Czech history. In 1919, when Czechoslovakia gained independence from the Habsburg dynasty, the Republic was proclaimed to cheering crowds in the square. Fifty years later, protesting the lack of resistance to the Soviet invasion, a philosophy student, Jan Palach, set fire to himself in the square. Twenty years later, the unofficial shrine to Jan Palach and other compatriots who followed his example became the rallying point for the Velvet Revolution when a quarter of a million people assembled in the square and began the process of separation from the Soviet Union.