Pribram is a town in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic with a population of about 32,500. The town is located on the Litavka river and the foothills of the Brdy Range, 60 km (37 mi) south-west of Prague; the country's capital. The town is well known for its mining history and more recently its new venture into economic restructuring.
The town is the third largest in the Central Bohemian Region (behind Kladno and Mlada Boleslav) and is a natural administrative and cultural center of the south-western part of the region, although it also tends to be largely influenced by the economy and lifestyle of Prague.
The Svata Hora ("Holy Mount") pilgrimage site is located just above the town, while the Mining Museum Príbram, including the communist labor camp Vojna memorial is another tourism attraction.
Landmarks.
Svata Hora monastery and St. Jacob church dominate of the town's panorama. The Old Town has the following landmarks:
- Svata Hora - Baroque church and monastery at a pilgrimage site, connected to the town with unique roofed stairs;
- The St. Jacob church (founded 1298, baroque aisle, 19th century Neo-Gothic tower),
- Former court building (decorated with sgraffiti from Mikolas Ales mining drawings),
- Town library and other historic buildings;
- Town Hall - Neo-Renaissance building from 1890, architect Václav Ignac Ulmann;
- Zamecek-Ernestinum - castle founded in the 14th century, later archbishop residence, now culture centre, original gothic bay
- Memorial of victims of World War I, statue of archbishop Arnošt of Pardubice (sculptor Ivar Kodym);
- Prazska street - precinct with shops and restaurants, on the top end, the St. Wenceslas square is located with a statue "St. Wenceslas" (in Czech sv. Vaclav)] of the granit-diorit (1998, sculptor prof. Stanislav Hanzik);
- Jiraskovy sady (English: Jirasek Parks) - the park in the center of the old town, surrounded by historical buildings:
- The convent (ecclesiastical school), former mining academy rectorate or Príbram district office, architect V. I. Ulmann,
- Statue memorial to Alois Jirasek literature work, bust of general Richard Tesarik;
- Pribram cemetery - graves of many Pribram natives, memorial of 1892 St. Mary mine disaster victims (the duplicate one is located in the Zdabor cemetery), memorial of the Red Army World War II victims;
- Antonin Dvorak bust on the Dvorak Front.
- House of Culture - built in 1959, architect V. Hilsky, house of Pribram theatre,
- Near is a statue of Antonin Dvorak (sculptor Josef Wagner);
- Statue of a Miner at the Pribram gymnasium
- Five historical mines and other buildings of the Mining Museum Príbram;
- St. Adalbert church - Neo-Renaissance, built in 1889;
- St. Prokop church - found on a place of old wooden campanile in the 18th century;
- Church of Master Jakoubek of Stribro Charge - built in 1936.
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