Van Helsing - Arch of Charles Bridge, Kampa island (Lesser town of Prague)
N 50° 05.207 E 014° 24.547
33U E 457729 N 5548446
Lesser Town of Prague (Malá Strana) with pictoresque Kampa island and Charles Bridge you can watch in Van Helsing movie, where Prague is standing in for Paris and Budapest.
Waymark Code: WMVBK8
Location: Hlavní město Praha, Czechia
Date Posted: 03/28/2017
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Lesser Town of Prague (Malá Strana) with pictoresque Kampa island and Charles Bridge you can watch in Van Helsing movie, where Prague is standing in for Paris and Budapest.
In a successful horror movie Van Helsing staring Hugh Jackman and Kate Beckinsale. The Old Town Square was used for filming the first fight between Van Helsing and Mr. Hide. The unique Lesser Town is widely used in this horror movie. Kampa is representing Budapest and Dracula’s party’s venue is baroque Saint Nichola’s Church.
The waymarked location under arch of Charles Bridge in Lesser Town
appears in 01:18:19 from start of the movie. In this shot Van Helsing (Hugh Jackman) walks with helpers under Charles bridge (behind his back across the river you can see the National Theater) and clashes with one of the Dracula female companions...
Kampa is an island in the Vltava river in central Prague on the side of Lesser Town of Prague. Charles Bridge crosses its northern tip and is connected to the island by the street ulice Na Kampe. It is separated from Malá Strana by a narrow artificial channel to the west called the Devil's Stream (Certovka), a waterway dug to power water mills (no longer existent).
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