Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #9 in Prague, Czechia

The Chapel of St. Mary Magdalene in Prague on the Edvard Beneš Embankment is a circular Baroque chapel and the first building to be moved to Czechoslovakia in 1956. It stands on the outskirts of Holešovice near the border of the Lesser Town, in a small strip of Holešovice territory, which belongs to the Prague 1 district.

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

Today, the Civic Swimming Pool is only a listed building between the Vltava Embankment and the "inland" section of Edvard Beneš Embankment Street in Prague, between the Strakova Academy in the Lesser Town and the 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, and their address is often given as the Lesser Town. The original swimming pool, called the Military Swimming Pool after the founding of the Civic School, was already in the Lesser Town, on the site of today's Straka Academy.

Wikipedia: Občanská plovárna (CS), Website

The Julius Zeyer Monument is a sculpture located in a cave made of artificially piled granite rock, part of the scenery with a stream, a lake and a bridge in the eastern part of Chotek Gardens in Prague 1 at Hradčany. Since 1958, the monument has been protected as a cultural monument, and since 1999 it has also been part of the National Cultural Monument of Prague Castle.

Wikipedia: Pomník Julia Zeyera (CS)

Hercules is located in the Royal Garden in Prague at Prague Castle. It dates back to 1670 and was created by sculptor Jan Jiří Bendl. The sculpture depicts Hercules fighting the three-headed Cerberus. From its mouth, water gushes into a smaller shell-shaped tank and from there flows into the lower, larger bowl. The fountain is set in a massive, richly decorated niche.

Wikipedia: Herkules (Královská zahrada) (CS)

The Fig House is a Renaissance building in the Royal Garden of Prague Castle. It is located above the Deer Moat, below the Royal Summer Palace. Together with the entire castle complex, it has been protected as a national cultural monument of the Czech Republic since 1962.

Wikipedia: Fíkovna (Pražský hrad) (CS)

The Old Castle Stairs are a pedestrian-only public road that connects the Lesser Town district with the eastern part of Prague Castle in the Prague 1 district, with the border between Hradčany and the Lesser Town actually running at their upper end on the edge of the observation deck at the eastern gate of Prague Castle.

Wikipedia: Staré zámecké schody (CS)

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)

The Lobkowicz Palace is a part of the Prague Castle complex in Prague, Czech Republic. It is the only privately owned building in the Prague Castle complex and houses the Lobkowicz Collections and Museum.

Wikipedia: Lobkowicz Palace (EN)

Prague Castle is a castle complex in Prague, Czech Republic serving as the official residence and workplace of the president of the Czech Republic. Built in the 9th century, the castle has long served as the seat of power for kings of Bohemia, Holy Roman emperors, and presidents of Czechoslovakia. As such, the term "Prague Castle" or simply the "Castle" or "the Hrad" are often used as metonymy for the president and his staff and advisors. The Bohemian Crown Jewels are kept within a hidden room inside it.

Wikipedia: Prague Castle (EN), Website

The Fountain with the Statue of Hercules is a fountain standing approximately in the middle of the Garden on the Ramparts, in front of the so-called Great Bellevue. It was placed here in 1923, together with the early Baroque statue of Hercules, which was brought here from the fountain in the First Castle Courtyard – it no longer exists today. The statue made of Žehrovice sandstone represents a mythical hero who opens the mouth of a lion, from which a spring of water flows into the reservoir. The tank itself, allegedly made of Mšeno sandstone, is decorated with Roman motifs, with the Slovak coat of arms at the front. The fountain comes from the workshop of Jože Plečnik.

Wikipedia: Kašna se sochou Herkula (zahrada Na Valech) (CS)

The Hartig Garden, together with the Garden of Eden and the Garden on the Ramparts, is one of the southern gardens of Prague Castle; It is the smallest of them in terms of area. Together with them, Prague Castle is part of the national cultural monument. It is located above the Hartig Palace, on plots No. 561 and 558.

Wikipedia: Hartigovská zahrada (CS)

The Theatine Monastery in Prague's Lesser Town is a former convent attached to the Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help and St. Cajetan.

Wikipedia: Klášter theatinů (Praha) (CS)

The Palace of the Towerers or the Věžník's, Hartig's or Salm's 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)

The Kolowrat Palace is a Baroque building on the corner of Thunovská and Sněmovní Streets in Prague's Lesser Town. It used to be referred to as the parish of St. Nicholas. The building has been listed since 1964.

Wikipedia: Kolowratský palác (Praha, Sněmovní) (CS)

The Lažanský Palace is originally a Renaissance house, rebuilt in the Baroque style in the first half of the 18th century. It is located in Prague's Lesser Town at Sněmovní 175/5. It is protected as a cultural monument.

Wikipedia: Palác Lažanských (Sněmovní) (CS)

The Auersperk Palace or Clary-Aldringen Palace is a late Baroque palace located on Wallenstein Square No. 16 / No. 1 in Prague's Lesser Town. It is protected as a cultural monument.

Wikipedia: Aueršperský palác (CS)

The Pedagogical Museum of J. A. Comenius is an older name of a specialized museum institution dedicated to pedagogy and the history of Czech education. Since 1.7.2011 it has been part of an institution called the National Pedagogical Museum and Library of J. A. Comenius. It is located in Valdštejnská Street in Prague's Lesser Town, opposite the main building of the Senate of the Czech Republic.

Wikipedia: Pedagogické muzeum J. A. Komenského v Praze (CS), Website

The Pálffy Garden is located in Prague's Lesser Town below the Castle. In the north, it is adjacent to the Garden on the Ramparts, in the south it is connected to the building of the Pálffy Palace. It borders on the Ledebour Garden from the west and the Kolowrat Garden from the east. It is a Baroque garden founded by Anna Maria of Fürstenberg in 1751. It bears the name of Count Eduard Pálffy of Erdöd, who bought the palace in 1881 today called the Pálffy Palace. Functionally, it is divided into Small and Large. Today, the garden is part of the paid exhibition of palace gardens. Together with the Pálffy Palace, it is protected as a cultural monument of the Czech Republic.

Wikipedia: Pálffyovská zahrada (CS)

The Ledebour Garden is a historical garden in Prague, located in the Lesser Town in the Prague 1 district. It is named after Count Adolf of Ledebour. He acquired the adjacent palace in 1852. The Ledebour Palace was founded in 1601, and the garden was founded in 1665 by Jan Václav of Kolowrat.

Wikipedia: Ledeburská zahrada (CS), Website

The Ledebour Palace is a baroque palace located at Valdštejnské náměstí 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 rising to the wall of the Prague Castle gardens.

Wikipedia: Ledebourský palác (CS)

The Little Fürstenberg Palace is a smaller building in the late Baroque form in Valdštejnská Street no.12 in Prague on Malá Strana. The palace was created by merging older buildings under the Kolovrat garden and is connected to the rear wing of the Kolovrat Palace. Both palaces are part of the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic, which is a national cultural monument. The palace itself has been protected since 1964.

Wikipedia: Malý Fürstenberský palác (CS)

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 Palace Gardens complex 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)

The Wallenstein Garden is one of the most distinctive buildings of the Czech early Baroque. It is located in Prague's Lesser Town and is part of the Wallenstein Palace, the seat of the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic. The publicly accessible garden in Italian style, divided by trimmed hedges, is equipped with water features, sculptural decorations, a grotto wall and a monumental sala terrena. Occasionally, concerts and exhibitions are held here.

Wikipedia: Valdštejnská zahrada (CS), Heritage Website

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)

The Kolowrat Palace is a high Baroque building in Prague's Lesser Town, with a façade facing Nerudova Street, built in 1716–1721. The palace is part of the palace complex, the second part of which consists of the Renaissance building of the Palace of the Lords of Hradec, later also called the Slavata Palace. Both palaces are protected as cultural monuments.

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

The Church of St. Benedict in Prague's Hradčany is originally a parish church of Hradčany, first mentioned in 1353. Together with the Discalced Carmelite Monastery "Fortna", it is located on the southern side of Hradčany Square.

Wikipedia: Kostel svatého Benedikta (Praha) (CS), Heritage Website

The Marian Plague Column in the middle of Hradčany Square in Prague stands in the place where open-air services were held during the Great Plague in 1713–1714. The column is protected as a cultural monument.

Wikipedia: Mariánský morový sloup (Hradčany) (CS)

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

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

The Kajetánské terasy garden is located in the Lesser Town in Prague 1. The elongated plot, demarcated by the Castle Stairs and Nerudova Street, occupies an area of 2085 m² at an altitude of 220 to 240 m above sea level. The entrance to the garden is from the ramp of Prague Castle.

Wikipedia: Kajetánské terasy (CS)

Wrestling Titans, also known as Fighting Giants and Giants' Gate, is a pair of outdoor sculptures leading to the first courtyard of Prague Castle, in the Czech Republic.

Wikipedia: Wrestling Titans (EN)

In the first half of the 20th century, the bear enclosure was located in the northwestern part of the Prague Castle complex on the slope of the Deer Moat, approximately below the Masaryk Lookout, built under the northern walls of Prague Castle. To this day, its existence is commemorated by a bear keeper's house and barred caves, occasionally used as pens.

Wikipedia: Medvědárium (Pražský hrad) (CS)

Masaryk's Lookout is a platform with terraces in the south-eastern part of the Lumbe Garden, at the chances of the Marian Walls above the Deer Moat, in the northern foreground of Prague Castle.

Wikipedia: Masarykova vyhlídka v Praze (CS)

Francysk Skaryna was a Belarusian humanist, physician, and translator. He is known to be one of the first book printers in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and in all of Eastern Europe, laying the groundwork for the development of the Belarusian izvod of the Church Slavonic language.

Wikipedia: Francysk Skaryna (EN)

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

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

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)

The Church of St. John of Nepomuk, sometimes also known as the Military Church, is a Baroque church at the Ursuline Monastery by Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer. The church is located on the corner of U kasáren and Kanovnická streets in Prague's Hradčany, approximately 200 meters from Hradčanské Square, near Nový Svět.

Wikipedia: Kostel svatého Jana Nepomuckého (Hradčany) (CS), Heritage Website

The Martinic Palace in Loretánská Street is a two-storey Baroque building located in Prague 1 - Hradčany, in Loretánská Street No. 181/4.

Wikipedia: Martinický palác (Loretánská ulice) (CS)

The Great Strahov Garden belongs to the complex of gardens of the Strahov monastery together with the abbey garden, a convent garden and a view with the vineyard.

Wikipedia: Velká strahovská zahrada (CS)

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

Wikipedia: Opatská zahrada (Strahovský klášter) (CS)

The Museum of Czech Literature (MCL) - The Museum of Literature is a cultural, museum, scientific and educational institution that acquires, collects, processes, registers and provides access to a collection related to the development of literature and book culture in the Czech lands, including documents related to the lives, works and legacy of important personalities of Czech literature from the 18th century to the present. It fulfils the function of a museum within the meaning of the provisions of Section 10 para. 6 of Act No. 122/2000 Coll., on the Protection of Museum Collections. From 1952 it was located at Strahovské nádvoří 132/1, 118 00 Prague-Hradčany, but after almost seventy years it moved from the Strahov Monastery to the Petschek Villa in Bubeneč and opened its collections to the public as the Museum of Literature.

Wikipedia: Památník národního písemnictví (CS), Website

The Basilica of the Assumption of Our Lady is a church in the Strahov Monastery, Prague. It was originally constructed as a Romanesque basilica and later rebuilt in Baroque style.

Wikipedia: Basilica of the Assumption (Prague) (EN), Website, Heritage Website

The Church of St. Roch is a Renaissance church located in Prague 1-Hradčany in the area of the Strahov Monastery. At the beginning of the 17th century, it was built by Emperor Rudolf II as a thank you for averting a plague epidemic.

Wikipedia: Kostel svatého Rocha (Hradčany) (CS), Heritage Website

The Museum on Miniatures in Prague features a number of miniature works of art, some of them needing to be viewed with a microscope or magnifying device.

Wikipedia: Museum of Miniatures in Prague (EN), Website

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

Wikipedia: Kučerův palác (CS)

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

Wikipedia: Malovanka (CS)