Mladota Palace on Charles Square gained its reputation as Prague's Faust House through eccentric inhabitants, alchemical interests and unusual discoveries. The best-known legend says Doctor Faust played with the Devil here, who finally carried him off through a hole in the ceiling that supposedly long resisted being bricked up.
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- Place
- Praha
- Municipality / starting point
- Praha
- District / region
- Praha 2 · Nové Město
- Country
- Czechia
- Location in the sources
- Faust House, Charles Square
Mladota Palace on Charles Square gained its reputation as Prague's Faust House through eccentric inhabitants, alchemical interests and unusual discoveries. The best-known legend says Doctor Faust played with the Devil here, who finally carried him off through a hole in the ceiling that supposedly long resisted being bricked up.
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