Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #7 in Prague, Czechia

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Number of sights 21 sights
Distance 5.5 km
Ascend 242 m
Descend 135 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: Divadlo Kampa

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The Kampa Theatre, formerly the Small Nostic Theatre, is a small theatre 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.

Wikipedia: Divadlo Kampa (CS), Website, Facebook

194 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 2: Museum Kampa

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Museum Kampa Jan Jenista / CC BY 2.5

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

95 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 3: Tučňáci

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

Wikipedia: Žlutí tučňáci na Vltavě (CS)

61 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 4: Réva

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Réva, or Dívka s hrozny, is an outdoor statue, installed in 1960 at Kampa Park in Prague, Czech Republic. The statue is a typical work of Karla Vobišová-Žáková, the first Czech professional female sculptor, aimed to figural and portrait sculptures. The almost life-size statue was created from Carrara marble, the piedestal from sandstone. The statue is separately registered and protected as a cultural monument since 1964. The last restoration was made in 1997.

Wikipedia: Réva (sculpture) (EN)

168 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 5: Nosticova zahrada

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Nostic Garden is a small garden near Maltézské náměstí, in the vicinity of Kampa in Prague 1. Together with the Nostic Palace, it is protected as a cultural monument of the Czech Republic.

Wikipedia: Nosticova zahrada (CS)

183 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 6: Zlomkovský mlýn

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The Zlomkovský Mill (Maltese, 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)

157 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 7: Chotkovský palác

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

Wikipedia: Chotkův palác (CS)

156 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 8: Czech Museum of Music

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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, in the Lesser Town, Prague 1.

Wikipedia: České muzeum hudby (CS), Website

348 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 9: Jan Neruda

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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)

345 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 10: Josef Sudek Studio

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Josef Sudek Studio PPF Art / PD

The Josef Sudek Studio is a gallery bearing the name of the renowned Czech photographer Josef Sudek. This single-storey pavilion of only 61 square metres and located in the courtyard of the apartment buildings at no. 432 Újezd, Prague, is a replica of the original that Sudek used from 1927 to 1976. In 1990, the studio was listed as a national heritage site.

Wikipedia: The Josef Sudek Studio (EN), Website

272 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 11: Na Prádle

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The Na Prádle Theatre is a small theatre in the Lesser Town in Prague 1, Besední 487/3.

Wikipedia: Divadlo Na Prádle (CS), Website

104 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 12: svatý Jan Křtitel Na prádle

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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 wedge of Říční and Všehrdova Streets, near Čertovka 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 the parish church of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church.

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

615 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 13: Švanda Theatre

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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

817 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 14: svatý archanděl Michael

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The Church of St. Michael the Archangel, also 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 Kinský Garden in Smíchov in Prague 5. On October 28, 2020, the church burned down.

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

624 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 15: Květnice

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Květnice is a garden on the plateau of Petřín Hill in Prague, 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)

165 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 16: Milan Rastislav Štefánik

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The statue of Milan Rastislav Štefánik is an outdoor sculpture by Bohumil Kafka, installed outside Štefánik's Observatory on Petřín in Prague, Czech Republic.

Wikipedia: Statue of Milan Rastislav Štefánik, Prague (EN)

203 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 17: Petřín

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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)

227 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 18: Saint Lawrence

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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)

84 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 19: Mirror Maze on Petřín Hill

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

Wikipedia: Zrcadlové bludiště na Petříně (CS), Website

96 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 20: Petrin Observation Tower

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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

559 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 21: Large Strahov Garden

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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)

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