The Smetana Hall is a noted concert venue that is housed in the Municipal House located on the Republic Square (Náměstí Republiky in Czech), on the very border between the Old and the New Town, beside the trademark gothic Powder Gate (Prašná brána) in central Prague.

The Hall, named after ‘the father of Czech music’ Bedřich Smetana, and its housing civic building was designed by architects Osvald Polívka and Antonín Balšánek in the Art Nouveau style, with construction beginning in 1905 before inaugurated seven years later in 1912.

It was actually built on the very site of the Royal Court Palace, the house of the Kings of Bohemia for a little over a century before abandoned in 1485, which was demolished at the dawn of the 20th century.

The current edifice actually accommodated the Czechoslovak Declaration of Independence in October 1918.