Kampa Square by Ales Jiranek - Prague, Czech Republic
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N 50° 05.203 E 014° 24.515
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Kampa Square beside of the Charles Bridge during the flood in 2002
Waymark Code: WM167VT
Location: Hlavní město Praha, Czechia
Date Posted: 05/28/2022
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Kampa is an artificial island with an area of over 5 hectares, on the one hand, flooded with Vltava waters, and cut off from the mainland by Certovka (Czarcim Potok) - a channel originally dug to power water mills (one of the three has been preserved, called the Great Prior). The area around the mouth of Certovka to the Vltava, where the buildings stand on the stream itself, became known as Prague Venice.
Kampa's beauty was appreciated by filmmakers - photos shot here include for the films "Mission Impossible" and "Van Helsing". There is the shortest street in Prague, 27 m long, Jiriho Cerveného - a cabaret artist, writer, composer and lawyer. The island is connected to the mainland by several footbridges. At its northern end, there are three pillars of the Charles Bridge, from which you can descend to Kampa by a stone staircase.
The greater part of the island is occupied by the park, where the stage was located for the needs of concerts and entertainment events organized here during the tourist season. The park has the Kampa Museum - a gallery with a permanent exhibition of a rich collection of contemporary art from Central European countries.
The author this painting is Czech painter and illustrator Ales Jiranek (
visit link) . In 1968, the Aleš Jiránek left Czechoslovakia and has since lived alternately in France and Switzerland.
You can find this painting in book 'Praha'. The images from this book depict Prague squares or panoramas. A special feature of the paintings are views of Prague affected by the flood in 2002 (
visit link) .