Prague Metronome
Giant kinetic red metronome ticking atop the plinth of a demolished Stalin monument, with sweeping city views.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Prague Metronome traces the story of Otakar Svec, the sculptor who built the largest Stalin statue in the world on this exact hill in the 1950s, then took his own life days before it was unveiled. You'll hear how hundreds of laborers hauled thirty thousand blocks of granite up this hill, and what happened just seven years after the unveiling when workers packed the monument with explosives. Look at the bare stone plinth and imagine the fifty-one-foot procession that once stood on it.
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