Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #18 in Prague, Czechia
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3.5 km
143 m
Experience Prague in Czechia in a whole new way with our free 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 PragueSight 1: Podskalí Custom House at Výtoň
The Museum in the Podskalí Custom House at Výtoň is a two-storey stone building of the former Podskalí Custom House in the part of the Vltava embankment called Výtoň in Prague 2, at Rašínovo nábřeží 412. It currently serves as a thematic museum.
Wikipedia: Muzeum v podskalské celnici na Výtoni (CS), Website
Sight 2: Panna Marie Bolestná
The Church of Our Lady of Sorrows at the Elizabethan Sisters is a single-nave high Baroque church with a turret in the front from 1724-1725. It was designed by Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer as part of the neighboring Elizabethan convent with St. Elisabeth Hospital Na Slupi. Together with the monastery complex, it is protected as a cultural monument of the Czech Republic. It is located in Na Slupi Street at the southern edge of Prague's New Town, south of the Charles University Botanical Garden.
Sight 3: Zvěstování Přesvaté Bohorodice
The Church of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary on the lawn, or the Orthodox Church of the Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos, is a small Gothic building built at the Servite monastery. It is located below Vyšehrad in the valley of the Prague Botič stream, in Prague's New Town. The church is dedicated to the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary and, together with the monastery, has been a monument since 1958. It was founded by Charles IV on 24.3.1360 and built between 1360 and 1375. Its current appearance is mainly in the neo-Gothic style. Since 1995, it has been used by the Orthodox Church.
Sight 4: Czech Police Museum
Czech Police Museum – is a museum in Prague dedicated to the history of law enforcement on the territory of the Czech Republic and former Czechoslovakia. The museum is located on the grounds of the former Augustinian monastery, in the Karlov neighbourhood in the New Town of Prague. Which was founded in 1350 by Charles IV. The monastery was previously the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St Charles the Great. When monastery was abolished by Emperor Joseph II, it passed into the possession of the state, and served at first as a warehouse, later as hospital for the treatment of infectious diseases, almshouse and during World War I a centre for army convalescents.
Sight 5: Panna Maria a svatý Karel Veliký
The Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and St. Charles the Great is located in the Karlov area of Prague. The originally Gothic church was rebuilt and augmented in baroque style. The church is a part of the former convent of the Augustinian Order in Prague's Karlov.
Wikipedia: Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and St. Charles the Great, Prague (EN), Heritage Website
Sight 6: Bohyně 390 km v hodině
The Goddess 390 km per hour was a statue located on the Charles bridgehead near the Nusle Bridge in New Town in Prague 2.
Sight 7: Z vlastního rozhodnutí
By Your Own Decision – Memento mori is a monument in Prague's Folimanka Park, which is dedicated to the memory of people who voluntarily ended their lives by jumping off the Nusle Bridge. The monument was designed and created by sculptor Krištof Kintera. It consists of a ten-meter-high street lamp, the light of which is directed upwards towards the bridge. On the lamp pole, at about the level of human eyes, there is a sign with the inscription "Memento mori – to those who took their own lives in these places of their own accord." Originally, the number of people who died under the bridge was supposed to be listed on the sign, but because the exact number is unknown, this plan was abandoned.
Sight 8: Kaple svaté Rodiny
The Chapel of the Holy Family is located in Prague's Vinohrady district in Pod Nuselským schody Street. It was founded in 1755 by the Prague burgher and municipal councillor Karel Leopold Bepta, who also bequeathed his property to it as a vineyard chapel on the land of the homestead later called Vondračka. Bepta had the chapel founded here allegedly because the people working on his land were "a mischievous and very unrestrained bunch" and the opportunity to attend services in the chapel was supposed to help them get back on the right track.
Sight 9: vila Osvěta
Vila Osvěta is a building in Jana Masaryka Street 165/22 in Prague's Vinohrady. From 1886 to 1889, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk and his wife Charlotte lived here, and their son Jan, later Czechoslovak Minister of Foreign Affairs, was born here on 14 September 1886.
Sight 10: Divadlo D21
The D21 Theatre is a professional independent theatre and auteur theatre based in Prague's Vinohrady district.
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