St. Vitus Cathedral
The cathedral was founded by the emperor Charles IV. in 1344, when the episcopate of Prague was upgraded to archiepiscopate. The first builder of the dome was Mathew from Arras, after whose death the Peter Parler took his place. From his work there staid at the cathedral architectonical rariries as f.e. the star-form ribbed vault.
The best known chapel is the St. Venceslas chapel, built over his crypt. There are intombed as well some czech kings and it's the deposit of the czech crown jewells.
Today's lookout of the dome was reached through the rebuildings in 1554 after the great fire which destroyed the Lesser Town and a part of the Prague Castle and in 1770 when the characteristic domic tower was built. The 80-m-high towers in the front came in the last building phase at the end of 19th century in neo-gothic style, made by Josef Mocker and Kamil Hilbert. The sculptural and pictorial decorations are products of Max Svabisky, Alfons Mucha and further famous artists.
Sinc 1997 the dome is officially called The Cathedral of St. Vitus, Vevceslas and Vojtech.