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| I have found nothing online to confirm this, but the crown with an L may date back to 1679, when Holy Roman Emperor Leopold moved the Habsburg royal court from Vienna to Prague to escape a major outbreak of bubonic plague |
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| Images of this golden horse on a mid-14th century house are sold on T-shirts, postcards, baseball caps and other merchandise |
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| A modern-looking version of an old sign that suggests the building was once a shoemaker's - the wording translates as At The White Shoe |
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| A wealthy widow who fell in love with a bear-tamer supposedly owned this house, erecting the sign after he died prematurely, but a more likely reason for its siting is that a black bear with a golden chain was an alchemy symbol boasting of the taming of dangerous, but valuable, ancient powers |
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