Park na Karlově, Urban park in Karlov, Prague, Czechia
Park na Karlově is a park in Prague's New Town, bounded by Sokolská, Ke Karlovu, Boženy Němcové and Horská streets at 235 m elevation. It is entered through an early Baroque gate from Ke Karlovu. The grounds are dominated by the Gothic Church of the Assumption and St. Charles the Great, rebuilt in Baroque style, with a closed pedestrian loop in front. The former Augustinian monastery, now the Police Museum, closes the park on the west.
Charles IV had the Gothic walls of the New Town built between 1348 and 1350, and the adjacent monastery and Church of the Assumption and St. Charles the Great were founded in his reign. After the Austro-Prussian War of 1866 the fortifications were demolished, and in 1903 the park was laid out east of the former monastery to a plan by Karel Skalák. In the late 20th century metro and highway construction cut through it, and it was remodelled in the late 1980s after a design by Radim Hubička.
The park is entered through an early Baroque gate from Ke Karlovu Street. Between the gate and the church entrance stands a pilgrimage chapel with a stone statue of Charles IV by sculptor Josef Max, dated 1837. The former Augustinian canons' monastery now houses the Police Museum of the Czech Republic.
The park is open to the public during the day and locked at night. Enter through the early Baroque gate from Ke Karlovu Street; a dense hedge of rugosa rose, white dogwood and common hazel screens the park from the magistrála. The grounds lie at 235 metres above sea level.
The park's tree collection includes a Japanese pagoda tree (Styphnolobium japonicum), small-leaved linden, horse chestnut and a Norway maple, survivors of the planting scheme laid out by architect Radim Hubička when the park was reshaped in the second half of the 1980s.
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