Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #3 in Prague, Czechia
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7.6 km
209 m
Explore Prague in Czechia with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.
Activities in PragueIndividual Sights in PragueSight 1: Powder Gate Tower
The Powder Tower or Powder Gate is a Gothic tower in Prague, Czech Republic. It is one of the original city gates. It separates the Old Town from the New Town.
Sight 2: Divadlo Ungelt
The Ungelt Theatre is a private theatre stage in Prague's Old Town in Týn with an auditorium for less than a hundred spectators.
Sight 3: Our Lady before Týn
The Church of Mother of God before Týn, often translated as Church of Our Lady before Týn, is a Gothic church and a dominant feature of the Old Town of Prague, Czech Republic. It has been the main church of this part of the city since the 14th century. The church's two towers are 80 m high, and each tower's spire is topped by eight smaller spires in two layers of four.
Wikipedia: Church of Our Lady before Týn (EN), Website, Heritage Website
Sight 4: Mariánský sloup
The Marian column of Prague is a religious monument consisting of a column topped with a statue of the Virgin Mary, located in the city's Old Town Square. The original column was erected in 1650, shortly after the conclusion of the Thirty Years' War. It was demolished in November 1918, coinciding with the fall of Austria-Hungary. In 2020, the column was reconstructed, being completed on 15 August 2020.
Sight 5: Holy Spirit
Church of the Holy Spirit is a Gothic church in Josefov, Prague, Czech Republic.
Wikipedia: Church of the Holy Spirit, Prague (EN), Website, Heritage Website
Sight 6: Jewish Town Hall
Book Ticket*The Jewish Town Hall in Josefov, Prague, was constructed adjacent to the Old New Synagogue on the corner of Maiselova and Červená Ulice in 1586 in Renaissance style under the sponsorship of Mayor Mordechai Maisel. It acquired its Rococo facade in the 18th century.
Sight 7: Pinkas Synagogue
The Pinkas Synagogue is the second oldest surviving synagogue in Prague. Its origins are connected with the Horowitz family, a renowned Jewish family in Prague. Today, the synagogue is administered by the Jewish Museum in Prague and commemorates about 77,297 Czech Jewish victims of the Shoah.
Sight 8: Lesser Town Bridge Tower
The Lesser Town Bridge Towers are two Prague towers of different styles, of unequal height, forming the entrance from the Charles Bridge to the Lesser Town on the Royal Route at the beginning of Mostecká Street. Medieval bridges were usually fitted with a tower at each end. However, Charles Bridge has two towers on the Lesser Town bank, connected by a large Gothic gate. The lower tower is called Judith's Tower and is older than the Charles Bridge, while the higher tower was built after its completion. Towers with gates formed an important part of the Lesser Town fortifications at the time when the Lesser Town of Prague - today's Lesser Town - was an independent territory. In the event of an invasion by foreign troops, an armed garrison could take refuge in the towers, preventing the enemy from crossing the bridge. But even in peaceful times, armed guards made it clear to those entering that they would not tolerate any riots.
Sight 9: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Charles University
The House of Professed is a large, early Baroque building on the Lesser Town Square in Prague. Together with the Church of St. Nicholas and several houses, it forms a block dividing the square into lower and upper parts.
Wikipedia: Profesní dům (Malá Strana) (CS), Website, Heritage Website
Sight 10: Věžníkovský palác
The Palace of the Tower Keepers or also the Věžníkovský, Hartigský or Salm Palace is located in Thunovská Street No. 184/20 in Prague's Lesser Town. It is protected as a cultural monument of the Czech Republic.
Sight 11: Thun-Hohenštejnský palác
The Kolovratský palace is a top Baroque building in Prague on Malá Strana, with facade to the street Nerudova, built in 1716-1721. The palace is part of the palace complex, the second part of which is the Renaissance building of the palace of the gentlemen of Hradec, later called Slavatovský. Both palaces are protected as cultural monuments.
Sight 12: Nerudova Street
Nerudova is a street in the Lesser Town in Prague 1 that runs from the upper or northwest corner of Malostranské Square in a westerly direction up to Prague Castle. It is one of the most interesting streets in Prague for tourists. It is part of the former Royal Route, where the coronation procession of Czech kings used to cross the Charles Bridge to the Castle. At the upper end, it branches off into Ke Hradu and Úvoz streets. From this place, the Town Hall Stairs also go up in a north-westerly direction.
Sight 13: Saint Benito
The Church of St. Benedict in Prague's Hradčany district is originally a parish church of Hradčany, first mentioned in 1353. Together with the Discalced Carmelite monastery "Fortna", it is located on the south side of Hradčanské Square.
Wikipedia: Kostel svatého Benedikta (Praha) (CS), Heritage Website
Sight 14: National Gallery in Prague - Schwarzenberg Palace
The National Gallery in Prague, since 2018 is presenting under the name National Gallery Prague and the abbreviation NGP, is a state organization administering the largest collection of fine arts in the Czech Republic. The gallery was created from a privately initiated picture gallery, which since the end of the 18th century publicly exhibited originally borrowed paintings, and the current character acquired in the first half of the 20th century. He exhibits art from his collections in permanent exhibitions and organized exhibitions in several buildings in Prague and beyond, which are all important cultural monuments.
Sight 15: Lobkowicz Palace
Book Ticket*The Lobkovice Palace, formerly also the Přehořovský palace of Kvasejovice is a Baroque building located in Vlašská 347/19 Street in Prague on Malá Strana. Together with the adjacent Lobkovice garden is protected as a cultural monument. The palace houses the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Sight 16: Lobkovická zahrada
The Lobkowicz Garden in Prague's Lesser Town is the name of the fenced garden of the Lobkowicz Palace and one of the parts of the large park complex on Petřín Hill. In the system of urban green areas, it belongs to the first category of parks and is part of tourism routes. Together with the palace, it has been protected as a cultural monument of the Czech Republic since 1 January 1964. Its area is 6.69 hectares and it is located at an altitude of 205–305 m above sea level.
Sight 17: Nosticova zahrada
The Nostic Garden is a small garden near Maltese Square, in the vicinity of Kampa in Prague 1. Together with the Nostitz Palace, it is protected as a cultural monument of the Czech Republic.
Sight 18: Saint Lawrence
The Church of Saint Lawrence in Prague is a church of the Old Catholic Church of the Czech Republic. It is located on Petřín hill, next to Petřín Lookout Tower and the Hunger Wall. It was originally a Romanesque church, later rebuilt in the Baroque style by Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer.
Sight 19: Petrin Observation Tower
The Petřín Lookout Tower is a steel-framework tower 63.5 metres (208 ft) tall on Petřín Hill in Prague, built in 1891. It resembles the Eiffel Tower and was used as an observation tower as well as a transmission tower. Today the tower is a major tourist attraction.
Sight 20: saint Roch
The Church of St. Roch is a Renaissance church located in Prague 1-Hradčany in the area of the Strahov Monastery. It was built at the beginning of the 17th century by Emperor Rudolf II as a thank you for averting a plague epidemic.
Wikipedia: Kostel svatého Rocha (Hradčany) (CS), Heritage Website
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