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Statues of Madonna and Saint Bernard, Charles Bridge

Statues in Prague, Czech Republic

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ24971553 ↗
Source-derived summary

Statues of Madonna and Saint Bernard (Czech: Sousoší Madony a svatého Bernarda) by Matěj Václav Jäckel are installed on the north side of the Charles Bridge in Prague, Czech Republic.

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“Statues of Madonna and Saint Bernard, Charles Bridge” enters the record as statues in Prague, Czech Republic. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Statues, Madonna and Saint can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 30-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1709-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Statues, Madonna and Saint.
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“Statues of Madonna and Saint Bernard, Charles Bridge” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Statues, Madonna and Saint provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q24971553. Authority coordinates are 50.086, 14.413. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Statues of Madonna and Saint Bernard, Charles Bridge” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.