Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #8 in Prague, Czechia

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Number of sights 15 sights
Distance 6.4 km
Ascend 238 m
Descend 179 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 Prague

Sight 1: Large Strahov Garden

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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)

398 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 2: Opatská zahrada

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The Abbey Garden is one of the gardens of the Strahov Monastery.

Wikipedia: Opatská zahrada (Strahovský klášter) (CS)

454 meters / 5 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)

380 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 4: Virgin Mary Angelic

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The Church of Our Lady of the Angels in Prague, also known as the Church of Our Lady Queen of Angels, is a Capuchin church on Loreto Square in Prague's Hradčany, which is part of the oldest Capuchin monastery in Bohemia.

Wikipedia: Kostel Panny Marie Andělské (Hradčany) (CS), Heritage Website

128 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 5: Nativity

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The Church of the Nativity of Our Lord in Prague-Hradčany is a Baroque church in the area of the Prague Loreto. It is located inside the Loreto courtyard in the vicinity of the central building - the Loreto Chapel of the Virgin Mary.

Wikipedia: Kostel Narození Páně (Praha) (CS)

96 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 6: Loreta

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The Chapel of Our Lady of Loreto or the Loreto Chapel in Prague or the Prague Loreto is a copy of the famous Holy House located in Loreto, Italy. It is located in the middle of the Prague Loreto complex in the immediate vicinity of the Church of the Nativity of Our Lord on Loreto Square in Prague 1 – Hradčany.

Wikipedia: Loretánská kaple v Praze (CS)

333 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 7: Kučerův palác

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Kučerův Palace is a rococo palace, located in Pohořelec Street No. 114/22, Na Hradčany in the Prague 1 city district has been protected since 1958 as a cultural monument of the Czech Republic.

Wikipedia: Kučerův palác (CS)

386 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 8: Max van der Stoel

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The Max van der Stoel Monument is a work of art that commemorates the Dutch politician Max van der Stoel and his support for Charter 77. The monument in the shape of the shadow of a tree is located in Max van der Stoel Park in Prague 6. Its authors are sculptor Dominik Lang and architect Jakub Červenka. The work was created in 2017 at the instigation of the Dutch Embassy.

Wikipedia: Pomník Maxe van der Stoela (CS)

797 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 9: Malovanka

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Malovanka, originally called Peterka, was a farmstead after which the entire adjacent area of Střešovice, near Petynka in Prague 6 – Břevnov, is named. In the 18th century, the owner of the homestead was Peterka, whose name the homestead used to bear. In that century, there used to be a coachman's inn here. It probably got its name Malovanka from the nearby Strahov Gate, which is said to have been nicely painted.

Wikipedia: Malovanka (CS)

362 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 10: Panny Marie Altöttinské

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The Chapel of Our Lady of Altöttin is located in Prague and was founded by the Theatine Order. Specifically, it stands in the Břevnov district between the former homesteads of Kajetánka and Petynka in the valley below Tejnka, which stretches from Břevnov towards Prague. The chapel is not far from Radimova Street, house number 447. It stands on an unmodified plot of land and has no purpose.

Wikipedia: Kaple Panny Marie Altöttinské (Praha) (CS)

1035 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 11: svatý Florián

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The Chapel of St. Florian is located in Prague-Břevnov in Anastázova Street.

Wikipedia: Kaple svatého Floriána (Praha-Břevnov) (CS)

699 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 12: Popmuseum

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The museum and archive of popular music is a museum, archive and information center in Prague dedicated to popular music. The museum is located in Břevnov, a former coaching inn of Kaštan, now the Kaštan House of Culture. In Brno there is a Moravian branch of the museum. The museum is managed by the company of the same name.

Wikipedia: Muzeum a archiv populární hudby (CS), Website

707 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 13: Břevnovský klášter

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Břevnov Monastery is a Benedictine archabbey in the Břevnov district of Prague, Czech Republic. It was founded by Saint Adalbert, the second Bishop of Prague, in 993 AD with the support of Bohemian Duke Boleslaus II. The first Benedictine male monastery in Bohemia, it also has the oldest tradition of beer brewing in the Czech Republic. Brewing was interrupted several times in the history, but up to today, the Břevnov Monastery Brewery brew its beer here.

Wikipedia: Břevnov Monastery (EN), Website

58 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 14: Klášterní zahrada

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Břevnov Monastery and Sadets, formerly also the Statomarkét Garden in Břevnov form the premises together with the church and monastery, since 1991 they have been protected as one national cultural monument of the Czech Republic. It is divided into the upper area, which forms an unmaintained forest park, in the northwest, adjacent to the cemetery, on the street of Na Vník with student tracks, and the maintenance part, called Břevnovský orchard, and the lower monastery garden, which has its clause part, unlike the upper parts, better fenced and with two lockable entrances, which is only accessible during the day.

Wikipedia: Markétská zahrada (CS), Website

603 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 15: Větrník

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The Dutch-type windmill with outbuildings is homestead No. 40, located in the cadastral area of Břevnov, in the city district of Prague 6, in the locality called Větrník. It stands on the edge of the Břevnov monastery garden and forest park along U Větrníku Street, from which it is separated by a high wall, at an altitude of 360 m. Since 1958 it has been registered in the Central List of Cultural Monuments of the Czech Republic.

Wikipedia: Větrný mlýn (Břevnov) (CS)

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