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The Letná plain spans a wide area above the Vltava's northern banks, nestled between Hradčanská, and the developing quarters of Bubeneč and Letná. Skaters, dogwalkers, junkies, families and Prague residents from all walks of life spend their free afternoons and weekends prancing through the shaded groves of the park, or playing football and petanque just across from the well-known soccer stadium, home of FK Sparta.
When scaling the steps which rise above Čechův Most one reaches a vast plinth atop which sways the arm of a large metronome, measuring off the the city's constant plunge into time. The installation, colloquially referred to as 'The Metronome' is Vratislav Novák's (1942 - 2014) kinetic installation named "The Time Machine.