The most impressive buildings in prague dancing house officially known as the nationale nederlanden building the frank gehry designed dancing house or fred the zizkov television tower the zizkov television tower stands 216 meters tall and consists of a tubular center with national . The extraordinary architectural heritage of prague has meant that the city is now regarded as one of the artistic and cultural capitals of the world the turbulent history of the city is reflected in the range and diversity of buildings discussed in this book from its baroque churches and palaces to the state offices and housing projects of . Prague is a visual delight we visited prague for 8 days and were not prepared for the beauty we found the buildings and architecture of prague were a constant visual delight we were in europe after all so we expected the older tourist sites to be beautiful. Prague is one of the best places in europe to see baroque style architecture as many prague monuments and buildings date from this period the 17 th and 18 th centuries it became fully ensconced in the bohemia region during the thirty years war 1618 48 in which the catholics emerged victorious