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Who knows what they were thinking when they hung the crustacean above their door. Probably trying to keep up with the neighbours at the Pendant Parsnip at No. 39.

The onion-domed white towers of this 17th-century church complex are like something out a fairytale, but it’s up to you whether you choose to believe in the reconstruction of the Virgin Mary’s house, the Santa Casa, at the heart of the building.

In a chase scene, Dolph Lundgren leaps from a rooftop at Prague Castle and lands, miraculously, on the National Theatre; Prague audiences were unimpressed by this lack of authenticity in 1995.

They say a demonic trio screeches on their instruments here on moonlit nights. The house was home to a family of violin-makers in the early 18th century, and the sign advertised their trade. Like many of the other buildings on this street, it is now home to a restaurant.

Although their image no longer adorns the façade, the three flowers remain atop the house. The house also lends its name to a feverish tale of passion and thunderstorms by Jan Neruda. Many of the author’s tales were set in houses such as this one.

The protagonist Joseph K. of Kafka’s 1925 novel finds himself accused of a crime he did not commit.

This house was the birthplace of the much-loved Czech poet and author Jan Neruda (1834–91), after whom the street is named. Traditionally this was the writers’ and artists’ area of Prague, and Neruda conveyed the Bohemian atmosphere of Malá Strana in his work. The connection continues today with the quarter’s many small art galleries and craft shops.

Daniel Day Lewis and Juliette Binoche played an unhappily married couple living on Radnické schody during the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion, in the 1988 film adaptation of Milan Kundera’s dark novel about love, relationships and betrayal (see Milan Kundera).

Kundera’s non-linear tale of love, politics and the betrayals inherent in both.