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Wenceslas Square is one of the main city squares and the centre of the business and cultural communities in the New Town of Prague. It has been a place where many historical events occurred; it is also a traditional place for demonstrations, celebrations, and similar public gatherings. The square is named after Saint Wenceslas, the patron saint of Bohemia.

It i less a square than a boulevard, Wenceslas Square has a shape of a very long (750 m, total area 45,000 m²) rectangle. On the one end, the street is bordered by the grand neoclassical Czech National Museum. The other end runs up against the border between the New Town and the Old Town.

The street is dominated by a mounted statue of Saint Wenceslas, made by Josef Václav Myslbek in 1887–1924 and located in front of the National Museum.

The square became famous for 2 major events :
- On January 19, 1969, student Jan Palach set himself on fire in Wenceslas Square to protest the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union in 1968.
- In 1989, during the Velvet Revolution, large demonstrations (with hundreds of thousands of people or more) were held here.

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