The Lesser Town´s Bridge tower dominates the west side of the Charles Bridge. It is the youngest construction part of the bridge. It was built in the II. half of the 15th century and founded in 1464. It stands in a place of the older tower with unknown resemblance but with no doubt it is of the Romanic origin. Present building has been established during rule of the czech king George from Poděbrady. It is a precious monument of the prague´s post-hussite gothic style. It tried to imitate its Old town´s colleague. The embrasure spaces were probably meant for placing the sculptures of the bridge builders, Charles IV. and Václav IV., possibly a sculpture of George from Poděbrady supposed to stand here too. Why are the tower´s embrasure spaces empty it is unknown. The tower is administered by the Prague´s information service and it is open to tourists. Its height up to the top of the saddle-roof is 43.5 meters. Its south colleague the romanic Juditina Tower was built probably in the first half of the 12th century. At first it dominated the wooden bridge and eventually became a part of the stone Juditina Bridge. This one was built in about these years 1158-1172 and experienced its own destruction on the 3rd of February in 1342, during the flood when was buried by the ice-floes. In 1591 Juditina Tower went through renaissance makeover including sgrafito facade. Today a Club for the old Prague resides in the tower. It was founded already in 1900 and since then is constantly taking care of preserving the prague´s monuments. The gate between the towers consists of two spiky gothic parallel arcades. The upper edge of the gate is equipped by the castellation. The gate´s surfaces are decorated with emblems. On the side towards the bridge there are from the south to the north: the Lucembursky lion, Czech lion and a Moravian eagle. Beneath them there is two times an emblem of the Old prague´s town. According to these emblems which define a range of the power of the czech king, whose power was settled in 1411, the bridge gate was established shortly after this. In front of this gate there is the west side of the Charles Bridge. The edge sculpture group on the north side consists of st. Salvator, Kosma and Damian by John Oldřich Mayer from 1709 and on the south side there is the sculpture of st. Václav by Joseph Kamil Bohma from 1858.
