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Metronome Prague in Prague
Metronome Prague, launched around 2016 as the Czech capital's first large-scale pop and rock festival, takes its name from the giant red metronome installed on Letna Hill in 1991, on the plinth that once held a monument to Stalin. Held each June over three days, it deliberately mixes major international headliners with new artists across genres, moving to Letnany Airport for its tenth-anniversary edition.
Metronome Prague takes its name from the giant red metronome that has stood on Letna Hill since 1991, installed on the same plinth that once carried a colossal statue of Stalin, dynamited in 1962 after the monument became a political embarrassment, a site already loaded with symbolism before a music festival ever used the name.