Old Town Square

While the Wenceslas Square is a place for revolution and change the Old Town Square is a place for more enduring tradition and seems to have weathered the centuries with a quaint resistance to change... designed for tourists but attracting the locals too with a central stage which hosts daily carol singers and bands playing seasonal tunes to replace the earlier drawing card of public hangings and the burning of heretics who suggested foolish things like the Bible should be read in the local languages... this idyllic Baroque setting of the cobbled stone square seems perfectly suited to offbeat seasonal markets and attractions with rows of colourfully decorated wooden huts packed with hand-made stocking fillers, and locally made wood-carved puppets, jewellery, toys and candles. And for those that say the square is too old fashioned, for having resisted centuries of attempts to change it, they need look no further for proof that things are indeed changing than the new Starbucks Coffee shop and the Hard Rock Cafe.