Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #3 in Prague, Czechia

The Church of Saint Giles is a church in Prague, Czech Republic. This monumental three-aisled church was built on the foundations of a Romanesque church. Subsequently, numerous reconstructions took place during the 12th to 14th century. The Church of St. Giles in Prague was consecrated on 4 May 1371. In 1625, the church was donated to the Dominican order, which has served here and in the adjacent monastery ever since. The church was remodeled in Baroque style.

Wikipedia: St. Giles' Church (Prague) (EN)

The Náprstek Museum is a museum of Asian, African and Native American art located in Bethlehem Square in Prague, Czech Republic. It is one of several permanent exhibitions of the National Museum. The museum is situated in the former brewing and wine-making compound of U Halanku in the Prague Old Town.

Wikipedia: Náprstek Museum (EN), Website

Rotunda of the Finding of the Holy Cross is a Romanesque rotunda in Prague 1, Old Town quarter, on the crossing of Konviktská and Karolíny Světlé street. Its founding is considered after 1125.

Wikipedia: Rotunda of the Finding of the Holy Cross (EN), Heritage Website

The Church of St. Bartholomew in Prague is a high Baroque church in the Old Town of Prague 1. The church consecrated to the Apostle st. Bartholomew is located near the defunct medieval city walls in today's Bartolomějská Street. The church was built between 1726 and 1731 according to the design of architect Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer.

Wikipedia: Kostel svatého Bartoloměje (Praha) (CS)

The Schirding Palace, also known as Kaňka's House, is a Classicist building on the corner of Národní třída No. 16 and Mikulandská Street, in the New Town, No. 118/II, Prague 1. It is protected as an immovable cultural monument.

Wikipedia: Schirdingovský palác (CS)

The Topič House, also known as the Topič Salon or the U Topičů House, is a gallery and former publishing house in Prague 1, in the Old Town district of Národní třída, connected to house No. 339/11. To this day, it draws on its rich history and is considered the longest-running private gallery in Prague.

Wikipedia: Topičův salon (CS), Heritage Website

The New Stage of the National Theatre is a modern postmodern theatre building that was built in Prague's New Town on Národní třída in 1977–1983. It is also sometimes referred to as Brutalist. In 2021, the New Stage building was declared a cultural monument.

Wikipedia: Nová scéna (Praha) (CS)

The Convent of the Ursuline Sisters in Prague is a Baroque complex of convent buildings with two courtyards, a garden and a school of the Sisters of the Order of St. Ursula No. 139/II. It is located at the Church of St. Ursula at Národní třída 8, in Voršilská Street 3, 5 and in Ostrovní Street 11 in Prague's New Town. It has two entrances, the main entrance to the monastery is from across the courtyard from Ostrovní Street, the former fort and the side (service) entrance is from Národní třída through the gatehouse of the Institute of Endocrinology.

Wikipedia: Klášter voršilek (Praha) (CS), Website, Heritage Website

The Church of St. Ursula in Prague's New Town is an important High Baroque building. It is a Roman Catholic monastery church at the New Town monastery and the school of the Ursuline sisters. It is located on Národní třída No. 139/8 in Prague 1-New Town. Together with the Ursuline Convent, it is protected as a cultural monument of the Czech Republic. The Institute of Endocrinology and the Aggeo Italian specialty shop are also located at the same address.

Wikipedia: Kostel svaté Voršily (Praha) (CS), Heritage Website

The Dietrichstein Palace, also known as the Walter Palace, is a neo-Baroque palace that houses the Apostolic Nunciature of the Holy See. It is located in Voršilská Street No. 140/12 in New Town in Prague 1. It is protected as a cultural monument.

Wikipedia: Dietrichsteinský palác (Nové Město) (CS)

Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic and the historical capital of Bohemia. Situated on the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.4 million people. The city has a temperate oceanic climate, with relatively warm summers and chilly winters.

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Museum Kampa is a modern art gallery in Prague, Czech Republic, showing Central European, and in particular Czech work. The pieces are from the private collection of Meda Mládek, wife of Jan V. Mládek. The museum opened in 2003 and is housed in the Sova's Mills on the eastern bank of the Kampa Island on the River Vltava.

Wikipedia: Museum Kampa (EN), Website

The Yellow Penguins on the Vltava River, also called the Penguin Queue on Kampa, is a sculpture located at the mouth of the Smíchov Navigation Canal on the Vltava River near the Kampa Museum near the Sova's Mills on Kampa Island in the Lesser Town in Prague 1.

Wikipedia: Žlutí tučňáci na Vltavě (CS)

The Kampa Theatre, formerly the Small Nostic Theatre, is a small theatre scene in Prague 1 in the Lesser Town. The theatre was founded in 2010. It is located in the area of the Michna of Vacínov Palace in Nosticova Street No. 634/2a. The director of the Kampa Theatre has been Iveta Dušková since 2014.

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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.

Wikipedia: Nosticova zahrada (CS)

The Zlomkovský Mill (Maltézský, Wendlingerovský) is a former water mill in Prague's Lesser Town, which stands on the left bank of the Devil's Stream. It is protected as an immovable cultural monument of the Czech Republic.

Wikipedia: Zlomkovský mlýn (CS)

Chotek Palace, Chotek Palace or Burgher House At the Golden Pelican is an Empire palace located at Hellichova 458/1 in the Lesser Town in Prague 1, in the immediate vicinity of the Jan Neruda Grammar School. It is protected as a cultural monument.

Wikipedia: Chotkův palác (CS)

The Czech Museum of Music is a specialized part of the National Museum in Prague, focusing on materials with musical and instrumental themes. It is located in the rebuilt former Church of St. Mary Magdalene at Karmelitská 388/2 and 4, Újezd 388/50, Hellichova 388/10, Malá Strana, Prague 1.

Wikipedia: České muzeum hudby (CS), Website

The statue of a Czech poet and publicist Jan Neruda is an outdoor 1970 sculpture by Jan Simota and Karel Lapka, installed at Petřín, Malá Strana in Prague, Czech Republic.

Wikipedia: Statue of Jan Neruda, Prague (EN)

The Na Prádle Theatre is a small theatre stage in Malá Strana, Prague 1, Besední 487/3.

Wikipedia: Divadlo Na Prádle (CS), Website

The Church of John the Baptist Na Prádle is a Romanesque-Gothic church first mentioned in 1142 in the southern part of the Lesser Town in Prague 1, in the lap of Říční and Všehrdova Streets, near the Devil's Stream and Kampa Island. The church is protected as a cultural monument of the Czech Republic. The name reminds us that the church served as a laundry after its abolition. Today it serves as a parish church of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church.

Wikipedia: Kostel Jana Křtitele Na Prádle (CS), Heritage Website

Švanda Theatre in Smíchov is a theatre in Smíchov a suburb of Prague. It continues the long tradition of the previous theatre based in this building and its surroundings.

Wikipedia: Švanda Theatre in Smíchov (EN), Website

The Church of St. Michael the Archangel, also known as the Carpathian Church of St. Michael, etc., is an all-wooden Orthodox, originally Greek-Catholic church of the Lemko type, built in 1625 in the village of Velké Loučky near Mukachevo, in 1793 it was sold and moved to Medvedovce. In 1929, it was dismantled in Carpathian Ruthenia, transported and rebuilt in the Kinsky Garden in Smíchov in Prague 5. On October 28, 2020, the church burned down.

Wikipedia: Chrám svatého archanděla Michaela (Petřín) (CS)

Květnice is a garden on the plateau of Petřín Hill in Prague in the area between the remains of the Baroque fortifications and the Hunger Wall. It covers an area of 1600 m² at an altitude of 320 – 325 m above sea level.

Wikipedia: Zahrada Květnice (CS)

Petřín is a hill in the centre of Prague, Czech Republic. It rises 327 m above sea level and some 130 m above the left bank of the Vltava River. The hill, almost entirely covered with parks, is a favorite recreational area for the inhabitants of Prague. The hill is featured prominently in Franz Kafka's early short story "Description of a Struggle" and briefly in Milan Kundera's novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

Wikipedia: Petřín (EN)

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.

Wikipedia: Cathedral of St Lawrence, Prague (EN)

The Petřín Maze is a popular children's and tourist attraction in the Garden at the Lookout Tower on Petřín Hill in Prague, in the immediate vicinity of the Petřín Lookout Tower.

Wikipedia: Zrcadlové bludiště na Petříně (CS), Website

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.

Wikipedia: Petřín Lookout Tower (EN), Website

The Great Strahov Garden is part of the complex of gardens of the Strahov Monastery together with the Abbey Garden, the Convent Garden and the Lookout with a vineyard.

Wikipedia: Velká strahovská zahrada (CS)