Prague Villa And Church Seek Unesco Heritage Listing

5 December 2006, 22:41 - Culture
The unique functionalist Mueller's villa and the Church of the Most Sacred Heart by Slovene architect J. Plecnik from the end of the 1920s and early 1930s, both in Prague. The Czech cultural ministry proposes these sights to be included in the UNESCO cultural heritage list. There are other 10 other proposals from all around the country.

The functionalist villa was ordered by prominent Czech construction businessman František Mueller from Austria's leading Czech-born architect Adolf Loos (1870-1933). The house was recently restored to its original shape from 1930, including furniture and technical equipment, and it is now accessible to the public as a museum and architecture centre.

Both monuments are not directly in the Prague city centre. Prague officials hope that the inclusion to the list would take tourists out from the overcrowded Prague centre and that it show the heterogeneity of the capital.

There are 12 monuments from the Czech Republic already listed in UNESCO cultural heritage list. Historical centres of Prague or south Bohemian picturesque town on the Vltava river, Český Krumlov are among them. Last additions to the list were the villa Tugendhat in south Moravian metropolis Brno, and the Jewish town and St Procopius basilica in Třebíč.