Basic Information
Hlavni Nadraži is the principle train station in Prague. It is a hybrid building, with the older and original Art Nouveau construction sitting on top of the elevated railway road, and the newer Soviet modern style building underneath this, presenting its front to the park below the railway tracks. All along the front of the elevated (now largely unused and in disrepair as of July of 2007) older section are human faces sculpted into the archetecture, worn and pitted with acid rain and neglect.
The station itself, though busy, is known by local gossip as a hang-out for heroin addicts, and though Prague in general has little violent crime, muggings in the park in front of the train station loom large enough in the municipal consciousness that the place is known by the nickname "Sherwood Forest".
