Prague, statue of Saint Aja

A secondarily placed baroque statue on a richly shaped plinth is placed in the niche of the perimeter wall in Nádražní street. The larger-than-life-sized statue is the work of IF Platzer and is dated 1769. A copy from 1981 is mounted on the original plinth, the original is in the depository of the Gallery of the Capital City of Prague. Originally, the statue stood in the chapel at Radlická Street.
Saint Aja was a countess in Belgian Flanders in the 8th century.…