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Have a look at the recent restoration work at this 17th-century palace while taking in a chamber music concert. The Nostitz family lent their name to the playhouse now known as the Estates Theatre.

The Kolowrat family’s heraldic eagles support the portal of this palace. Built by Giovanni Santini-Aichel in 1726, the building is now the Italian Embassy.

Originally several houses, Lichtenstein Palace fused in the 16th century. Today, it is home to Prague’s Academy of Music and numerous concerts and recitals.

Two giant Moors (hence Morzin) bearing up the Romanian Embassy’s façade are said to wander about Malá Strana streets at night.

General Wallenstein pulled out all the stops creating what is essentially a monument to himself. On the palace’s frescoes, the Thirty Years’ War commander had himself depicted as both Achilles and Mars.

This pink stucco palace and the John Lennon Wall are separated by only a few steps, but they are miles apart aesthetically. However, the French Ambassador helped preserve the graffiti opposite his offices in the 1980s.

Architect Francesco Caratti modelled this palace on Versailles. Today it’s home to the Museum of Physical Culture and Sport.

Czechoslovakia’s first ambassador to the United States sold the palace to the US government in 1925. Count Colloredo-Mansfeld owned the palace in the 17th century: having lost a leg in the Thirty Years’ War, he had the stairs reconstructed so he could ride his horse into the building.

Home to the German Embassy; in 1989 hundreds of East Germans found their way to the West by scrambling over the embassy’s back fence.

The Yugoslav Embassy sat quietly in its pink and yellow stucco for more than 300 years until war made it a popular spot for protests.