MONUMENT OF YANU GUSU IN PRAGUE IN OLD PREMIER SQUARE
How to get to Prague? In the northern part of the Old Town Square is a monument to Jan Hus, at the foot of which rest after long walks tourists, using the lower ledges as a bench. A large monument symbolizes national unity. Jan Hus, philosopher, preacher and reformer who fought for the freedom of the Czechs, was recognized as a heretic in 1414, and a year later was sentenced by the Catholic Church to be executed through burning. The consequences of this brutal execution were provoked by the Hussite wars, in which on one side were the Hussites - the followers of Jan Hus, and the second - the Roman Catholic Church. The war was remembered in history as the first war in Europe, where hand-held firearms were used and where the Hussite infantry inflicted significant damage on stronger opponents. Five centuries after the execution of Jan Hus, in 1915 a bronze monument was erected in the center of the Old Town, according to the sketches of the architect and artist Ladislav Shaloon ...