Kampa Park

This guide follows the Lennon Wall beside Kampa Park in Prague, beginning in December 1980 when an anonymous fan painted John Lennon's face onto this garden wall after his murder, and the secret police who kept coming back to paint over it. You'll hear about the years-long back-and-forth between authorities and anonymous artists, and how the messages scrawled here grew from grief into something the government took seriously. Look for the pencil and chalk layered over decades of names and lyrics in a dozen languages.