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The listed Pilsner Brewery Jubilee Gate dates from 1892.

The West Bohemian Museum is one of the largest museums in the Czech Republic due to its diverse collections of history, applied arts, and natural sciences. The facade and interiors of the new museum building, completed in 1899 in the Neo-Renaissance style and designed by Josef Škorpil, were created by leading artists of the time.

The city's central train station was put into operation in 1862 when a section of the Czech Western Railway from Prague to Pilsen was opened. The current station building was inaugurated in 1907. It was built in the Neo-Renaissance and Art Nouveau styles (particularly recognizable in the stucco decoration and metal elements). In the 1950s, statues of a metallurgist and a shunter were placed in the hall. They are still standing here today. The frescoes with motifs of Socialist Realism in the lower hall have also been preserved. Another characteristic of the building is its imposing, forty-meter-high dome.

The Great Synagogue is the largest synagogue in the Czech Republic. It is also the second largest synagogue in Europe (after the Budapest Synagogue) and the fifth largest in the world (after the two synagogues in Jerusalem, the one in New York, and the one in Budapest). The Great Synagogue was built between 1888 and 1892 in the Neo-Romanesque style with Moorish elements, according to the plans of the Viennese architect Max Fleischer. Its two towers are 45 meters high. The place of worship, unused for almost two decades and slowly decaying, was reconstructed between 1995 and 1997 and reopened in the spring of 1998.

One of the city's most important cultural monuments is the Josef Kajetan Tyl Theatre (Divadlo Josefa Kajetána Tyla). It has three stages: the Grand Theatre in the original Neo-Renaissance building from 1902, the New Theatre, and the Small Stage in the New Theatre. It was designed by the architect Antonín Balšánek (1865-1921). The hall of the Grand Theatre today, after renovations in the 1980s, seats 444 spectators, while originally it could accommodate around 1100 people.

On three corners of the square are the modernly designed fountains from July 2010. Architect Ondřej Císler designed them, using motifs from the Pilsen coat of arms: a greyhound, an angel, and a camel. The water spouts are made of gold-leaf-covered bronze; the basins into which the water falls are made of black granite.

Pilsen (Czech Plzeň), at the confluence of the Mže, Radbuza, Úhlava and Úslava rivers into the Berounka, is the fourth largest city in the Czech Republic with around 188,000 inhabitants. The expanded city area, which includes 108 municipalities, has around 310,000 inhabitants. The city with its ten districts is administered from this town hall (Plzeňská radnice). The 47 city councillors elect the mayor, currently Roman Zarzycký (since 2022) from the populist ANO party. In the 15th century, the city acquired the largest house in the northern part of the central square and had it rebuilt by the middle of the 15th century. The architect was the Italian Giovanni de Statia. He redesigned the house in the Italian Renaissance style, thus creating the first Renaissance building in Pilsen.

The most significant square in the city is the "Republic Square" (Náměstí Republiky). With 139 by 193 meters, the rectangular square is one of the largest in Europe. In Bohemia, it is the largest medieval square outside of Prague. In the center of the historic city core, it houses a number of important monuments, such as St. Bartholomew's Cathedral, the Town Hall, the Bishop's Residence, and the Plague Column from 1681 with a replica of the Pilsener Madonna. Since 2010, modern, gold-shimmering fountains have been located in the remaining corners of the square. They depict a greyhound, a camel, and an angel – elements of the Pilsener coat of arms.