Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #6 in Prague, Czechia

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Number of sights 30 sights
Distance 10.5 km
Ascend 337 m
Descend 434 m

Experience Prague in Czechia in a whole new way with our self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.

Activities in PragueIndividual Sights in Prague

Sight 1: saint Roch

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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

181 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 2: Konventní zahrada

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The Convent Garden is one of the gardens of the Strahov Monastery. It has an area of 0.27 hectares and lies at an altitude of 290 – 295 m above sea level. It is adjacent to the south side of the convent. The garden, together with the Strahov Premonstratensian Monastery, has been protected as a national cultural monument of the Czech Republic since 1989.

Wikipedia: Konventní zahrada (Strahovský klášter) (CS)

510 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 3: Trauttmannsdorfský palác

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The Trauttmansdorff Palace or Trčka's Palace is a Classicist palace located in Loretánská Street No. 180/6 in Hradčany in the Prague 1 district. It is named after the Austrian family of Trauttmansdorff. The palace is protected as a cultural monument of the Czech Republic. Since October 2019, the palace has been the seat of some departments of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic.

Wikipedia: Trauttmannsdorfský palác (CS)

477 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 4: Nerudova Street

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Nerudova Street Wolfgang Sauber / CC BY-SA 3.0

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.

Wikipedia: Nerudova (CS)

46 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 5: Panna Marie Matka ustavičné pomoci

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Church of Our Lady Mother of Perpetual Help and St. Kajetána, also called U Kajetánů, is a Roman Catholic monastery church in Nerudova Street in Prague 1 in the Lesser Town. It was built together with the monastery of the Theatines. Together with the monastery, the church has been protected as a national cultural monument since 1964.

Wikipedia: Kostel Panny Marie Matky ustavičné pomoci (Praha) (CS), Website, Heritage Website

497 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 6: saint Charles Borromeo

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The Church of St. Charles Borromeo is originally a Roman Catholic monastery church in the Lesser Town on the premises of the Hospital of the Sisters of Mercy of St. Charles Borromeo "Pod Petřínem", built in the Classicist style in connection with the construction of this hospital and consecrated on November 4, 1855. It is located in the city district of Prague 1-Malá Strana. Its address is Vlašská 336/36. It is protected as an immovable cultural monument.

Wikipedia: Kostel svatého Karla Boromejského (Malá Strana) (CS), Heritage Website

724 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 7: Vratislavská zahrada

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The Wrocław Garden, also known as the Mitrovická Garden, is an early Baroque garden of the Wrocław Palace in Prague's Lesser Town. It consists of three terraces. At its highest point it is 215 m above sea level, with an area of 0.2 hectares. Together with the palace, it has been listed as a cultural monument since 1964.

Wikipedia: Vratislavská zahrada (CS), Heritage Website

317 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 8: Turbovský palác

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The Turbo Palace or the Turbov Palace, also known as the House of the Black Griffin or At the Three Silver Stars, is a Rococo palace of the noble Turba family. It is located in Prague's Lesser Town at Maltézské náměstí 477/6. It is protected as a cultural monument. Since 1924, it has been the seat of the Japanese Embassy in Prague.

Wikipedia: Palác Turbů (CS)

208 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 9: Grand Priory Square

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Grand Priory Square is a small public space in the Lesser Town of Prague in the Prague 1 district.

Wikipedia: Velkopřevorské náměstí (CS)

171 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 10: Sterneggovský palác

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The Sternegga Palace, also called the Thun(ov)ský, or the House at the Golden Goose, is a building in the Lesser Town, Czech Republic, which was built on Gothic foundations, rebuilt in the late Gothic, Renaissance and early Baroque styles. The building, which is listed as a cultural monument, is located at Lázeňská 289/9 in Malá Strana in Prague 1.

Wikipedia: Sterneggovský palác (CS)

273 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 11: Saint Thomas

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Saint Thomas Martin Šanda (Šandík) / CC BY 2.5

Saint Thomas Church is an Augustinian church in Malá Strana, Prague, Czech Republic. The address is at Josefská 8. The church is easily recognisable in the Prague skyline. Saint Thomas' Church stands within the vicinity of both Saint Nicholas' Church and the Castle of Prague. In 2003, Saint Thomas Church celebrated its 775 anniversary.

Wikipedia: St Thomas' Church, Prague (EN)

231 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 12: St. Wenceslas Rotunda

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St. Wenceslas Rotunda

The Rotunda of St. Wenceslas is a former Romanesque rotunda, the remains of which are located under the northwest corner of the former Jesuit professional house on Malostranské Square in Prague.

Wikipedia: Rotunda svatého Václava (Praha) (CS), Website

161 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 13: Věžníkovský palác

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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.

Wikipedia: Palác Věžníků (Thunovská) (CS)

203 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 14: svatý Filip Neri

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The statue of St. Philip of Nerees by Ferdinand Maximilian Brokoff from 1715 stands on Hradčany Square, on the border of the castle ramp and the Castle Stairs. His brother Michal Jan Josef Brokoff also partially collaborated on the statue.

Wikipedia: Socha svatého Filipa Neri (CS)

152 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 15: Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk

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A bronze sculpture of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk is installed at Prague Castle in Prague, Czech Republic.

Wikipedia: Statue of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Prague (EN)

163 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 16: Saint Benito

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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

387 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 17: palác Hložků ze Žampachu

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The Palace of the Hložkas of Žampach is an early Baroque palace located in Kanovnická Street No. 70/4 in Hradčany in the Prague 1 district. It is protected as a cultural monument of the Czech Republic. The palace is currently the residence of the Austrian ambassador.

Wikipedia: Palác Hložků ze Žampachu (CS)

608 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 18: Obelisk

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The obelisk at Prague Castle is a granite monolith and World War I memorial designed by Jože Plečnik, installed at Prague Castle in Prague, Czech Republic. It stands 16 meters high. It is located in the Third Castle Courtyard.

Wikipedia: Obelisk (Prague Castle) (EN)

389 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 19: Golden Lane

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Golden Lane Maros M r a z (Maros) / CC BY-SA 3.0

Golden Lane is a street situated in Prague Castle, Czech Republic. Originally built in the 16th century to house Rudolf II's castle guards, it takes its name from the goldsmiths that lived there in the 17th century.

Wikipedia: Golden Lane (EN)

537 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 20: Ledebourský palác

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Ledebour Palace is a baroque palace located at Wallenstein Square 162/3 in Prague's Lesser Town. It is protected as a cultural monument of the Czech Republic. The palace is connected to the terraced Ledebour Garden, which rises to the wall of the Prague Castle gardens.

Wikipedia: Ledebourský palác (CS)

179 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 21: Malý Fürstenberský palác

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Malý Fürstenberský palác V. Groulik 2006 / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Small Fürstenberg Palace is a small building in the late Baroque style at 12 Valdštejnská Street in Prague's Lesser Town. The palace was created by merging older buildings under the Kolowrat Garden and is connected to the rear wing of the Kolowrat Palace. Both palaces are part of the seat of the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic, which is a national cultural monument. The palace itself has been a protected monument since 1964.

Wikipedia: Malý Fürstenberský palác (CS)

93 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 22: Kolovratský palác

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Kolovratský palác V. Groulík; Original uploader was Martinect at cs.wikipedia / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Kolowrat Palace in Valdštejnská Street is a late Baroque palace by Ignác Jan Nepomuk Palliardi in Valdštejnská Street in Prague's Lesser Town. The palace is part of the seat of the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic and is adjacent to the Small Fürstenberg Palace and the Kolowrat Garden, which is part of the complex of Palace Gardens under Prague Castle. The palace has been a cultural monument since 1964; It is also part of the national cultural monument Seat of the Parliament of the Czech Republic.

Wikipedia: Kolovratský palác (Praha, Valdštejnská) (CS)

825 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 23: Občanská plovárna

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Today, the Civic Swimming Pool is only a listed building between the Vltava's Kosárkovo Embankment and the "inland" section of Edvard Beneš Embankment Street in Prague, between the Straka Academy in the Lesser Town and Čech Bridge. The Civic Swimming Pool and the nearby Chapel of St. Mary Magdalene are more or less the only buildings that stand in a small strip of Holešovice belonging to the Prague 1 district, their address is often given as the Lesser Town. The original swimming pool, called the Military Swimming Pool after the foundation of the Civic Swimming Pool, was already in the territory of the Lesser Town, on the site of today's Straka Academy.

Wikipedia: Občanská plovárna (CS), Website

300 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 24: Saint Mary Magdalene

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Chapel of St. Maří Magdalene in Prague on the embankment of Edvard Beneš is a circular Baroque chapel and the first building that was moved in Czechoslovakia in 1956. It stands on the edge of Holešovice near the Hranice of Malá Strana. 1.

Wikipedia: Kaple svaté Máří Magdaleny (Holešovice) (CS)

570 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 25: Klausen Synagogue

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The Klausen Synagogue is a former Jewish synagogue located in Prague, in the Czech Republic.

Wikipedia: Klausen Synagogue (EN), Heritage Website

101 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 26: High Synagogue

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The High Synagogue, also called the Josefov Vysoká Synagogue, is a Jewish congregation and synagogue, located on Červená ulice, Prague, in the Czech Republic. Used as a synagogue from 1658 until World War II, the building is now part of the Jewish Museum of Prague.

Wikipedia: High Synagogue (Prague) (EN), Heritage Website

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Sight 27: Old New Synagogue

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The Old New Synagogue, also called the Altneuschul, is an Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, located in Josefov, Prague, in the Czech Republic. The synagogue is Europe's oldest active synagogue. Completed in 1270, it is also the oldest surviving medieval synagogue of twin-nave design.

Wikipedia: Old New Synagogue (EN), Heritage Website

242 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 28: Spanish Synagogue

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The Spanish Synagogue is a former Conservative Jewish synagogue, located in the area of the so-called Jewish Town, Prague, in the Czech Republic. The synagogue was completed in 1868 in the Moorish Revival style on the site of the presumably oldest synagogue, Old School. In 1955 the former synagogue was permanently repurposed as a Jewish museum and is administered by the Jewish Museum in Prague.

Wikipedia: Spanish Synagogue (Prague) (EN), Heritage Website

1827 meters / 22 minutes

Sight 29: svatý Antonín Paduánský

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The Church of St. Anthony of Padua in Holešovice is a Roman Catholic parish church built between 1908 and 1911 in the pseudo-Gothic style according to a project by architect František Mikš. It is located on Strossmayer Square in Prague 7-Holešovice on the territory of the former village of Bubny. Since 2015, it has been protected as an immovable cultural monument.

Wikipedia: Kostel svatého Antonína Paduánského (Praha) (CS)

164 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 30: Husův sbor

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The Hussite Congregation of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church in Prague-Holešovice is located in Farského Street in house number 1386/3, near Strossmayer Square. The street is named after Karel Farský, the founder and first patriarch of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church. The Hussite Congregation in Holešovice was built in 1935–1937 according to the design of architect František Kubelka as a multi-purpose new building. On the ground floor of the apartment building, a prayer room was set up, lined with marble, and in the basement there was a columbarium, described as one of the largest in Europe. The dominant feature of the building is a Byzantine cross in the front and a modernist tower with a chalice. The living quarters of the Hussite Congregation were occupied by the poet František Hrubín.

Wikipedia: Husův sbor (Holešovice) (CS), Website

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