Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #16 in Prague, Czechia

Vinohrady Water Tower is a building in Vinohrady in Prague 10 which was originally built as a water tower. Today its architecture is recognized as culturally important although it is now converted to accommodate offices and apartments. The viewing platform at the top is 40 metres above the street level. Its tourism helps pay for over 20,000 dollars worth of repairs and maintenance a year.

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Šaloun Villa is a studio in Prague designed by and for the sculptor Ladislav Šaloun. The villa was designed and built to construct the Jan Hus Memorial but it was also a meeting place for the Czech intelligentsia. Today the building has been restored and it is used for education.

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Vila Osvěta is a building at 165/22 Jana Masaryka Street in Prague's Vinohrady. From 1886 to 1889, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk and his wife Charlotte lived here, and on 14 September 1886 their son Jan, later Czechoslovak Minister of Foreign Affairs, was born here.

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Divadlo na Fidlovačce is a private theatre based in Prague.

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The gate of the tip is in a fraction preserved Gothic gate, which is located in the former fortification of Prague's Vyšehrad.

Wikipedia: Špička (brána) (CS)

The Leopold Gate is an early Baroque gate in Prague's Vyšehrad. Located in the street in the fortress, it is part of the Vyšehrad Citadel. The gate was built between 1653 and 1672, the exact year of the opening and completion of the construction is unknown. It was probably created according to the architectural design Carlo Lurag, whose drawing of the building has been preserved. The Leopold Gate consists of entry into the inner Vyšehrad fortress. Although it was part of the fortification system by architect Giuseppe Priami, it never served a military purpose. It has been used only since the mid -19th century, when a road between the new town and Pankráčí was built through Vyšehrad.

Wikipedia: Leopoldova brána (CS)

The Rotunda of St. Martin is located at Vyšehrad and is the oldest preserved rotunda in Prague. From its construction to the present day, the building has undergone many changes, both architecturally and in the way it is used. The rotunda was built in the Romanesque style, and thanks to later reconstructions, this style was preserved through re-Romanization. The current owner is the Vyšehrad Chapter, masses are regularly held in the rotunda and it is possible to look inside by appointment.

Wikipedia: Rotunda svatého Martina (Vyšehrad) (CS)

Gorlice is an underground hall in casemates inside the walls of Prague's Vyšehrad. It is located in the northeastern, 33rd bastion, to the east of the Brick Gate. The hall is vaulted with a barrel vault 13 meters high and has an area of about 330 m². Originally, it served as a gathering place for troops and a warehouse for supplies and ammunition. Gorlice was opened to the public after reconstruction in the 1990s. The space is used for exhibitions and theatre performances.

Wikipedia: Gorlice (Vyšehrad) (CS), Website

The statue of Saint Wenceslas is an outdoor sculpture by Johann-Georg Bendl from 1680, installed at Vyšehrad, Prague, Czech Republic. The statue formerly stood in the middle of Wenceslas Square, near Grandhotel Evropa, but was moved to Vyšehrad in 1879.

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The bust of Václav Štulc is installed at Štulcovy sady in Vyšehrad, Prague, Czech Republic.

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Slavín is a tomb at the Vyšehrad Cemetery in Prague. Many notable Czech personalities are interred in the tomb.

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The Brick Gate, also known as the New Gate, is an Empire gate in Vyšehrad, Prague. It is located in the northern part of the Vyšehrad fortifications and provides access to the citadel from the north, from the New Town. From the New Town, access to the gate is from Vratislavova Street, which is connected to V Pevnosti Street at Vyšehrad.

Wikipedia: Cihelná brána (CS)

The Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and St. Charles the Great is located in the Karlov area of Prague. The originally Gothic church was rebuilt and augmented in baroque style. The church is a part of the former convent of the Augustinian Order in Prague's Karlov.

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The Church of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary on the grass, or the Orthodox Church of the Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos, is a small Gothic building built at the Servite monastery. It is located below Vyšehrad in the valley of the Prague Botič Stream, in Prague's New Town. The church is consecrated to the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary and, together with the monastery, has been a monument since 1958. It was founded by Charles IV on 24/03/1360 and built between 1360 and 1375. Its current appearance is mainly in the neo-Gothic style. Since 1995 it has been used by the Orthodox Church.

Wikipedia: Kostel Zvěstování Panny Marie Na slupi (CS)

The Church of Our Lady of Sorrows at the Elizabethan Sisters is a single-nave high Baroque church with a turret in the front from 1724-1725. It was designed by Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer as part of the neighbouring Elizabethan convent with the St. Elisabeth Na Slupi Hospital. Together with the monastery grounds, it is protected as a cultural monument of the Czech Republic. It is located in Na Slupi Street at the southern edge of Prague's New Town, south of the Charles University Botanical Garden.

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Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate oceanic climate, with relatively warm summers and chilly winters.

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The Museum in the Podskalská Customs Na Výtoni is a two -storey stone building of the former Podskalská customs station in the part of the Vltava embankment called Výtoň in Prague 2, at Rašínovo nábřeží 412. It currently serves as a thematic museum.

Wikipedia: Muzeum v podskalské celnici na Výtoni (CS), Website