Wenceslas Square is a real time commitment — fit it in only if it's a priority.
Allow 20–40 min.
Historically heavyweight — this is where the Velvet Revolution crowds gathered and where Jan Palach's memorial sits below the National Museum. The catch: as a place to be, it's a wide, traffic-edged commercial strip of souvenir shops, exchange-rate scams and a seedy after-dark edge. Worth a walk for the history and the museum at its head, not for atmosphere.
Key venue of the 1968 Prague Spring and the November 1989 Velvet Revolution, where Václav Havel addressed crowds of up to half a million. · en.wikipedia.org
Student Jan Palach self-immolated on the National Museum steps on 16 January 1969 in protest at the Soviet occupation; a memorial marks the spot. · time.com