The National Theatre is the embodiment of the will of the Czech nation for national independence and independence. Wide layers of all the people and the ceremonial laying of the foundation stone participated in its building with collections
On May 16, 1868, it became a nationwide political manifestation.
The idea of building a dignified stone theatre was born in the autumn of 1844 at the meetings of patriots in Prague and began to be implemented with a request for a “privilege to build, furnish, maintain and manage” an independent Czech theatre, which was submitted to the Estates Committee of the Czech Parliament on 29 January 1845 by František Palacký. The privilege was granted as early as April 1845. However, it was not until six years later – in April 1851 – that the Corps for the Establishment of the Czech National Theatre in Prague issued its first public proclamation
to start the collections. A year later, the land of the former salt works was purchased from the proceeds of the first collections
with an area of less than 28 ares, which predetermined the beautiful location of the theatre on the Vltava bank against the panorama of Hradčany, but at the same time created difficult conditions for the authors of the building with its crampedness and trapezoidal shape.