Gods, Plague & a Communist Clock

Olomouc’s two main squares look like a catalogue of respectable monuments until you start reading what they actually say. In less than two kilometres, the city recruits Hercules to defend its eagle, claims Julius Caesar as a legendary founder, remembers plague in stone, gives Neptune a landlocked job, replaces a Christian saint with Jupiter, and lets a twentieth-century communist regime redesign an astronomical clock. This compact walk treats the centre as a sequence of deliberate edits to civic identity rather than a checklist of attractions. Every stop is outdoors, close to the next, and built around a detail you can still inspect from the street.