Mid-range · 6-hour walk · Prague
Art Nouveau Prague and Vinohrady in six hours
The Municipal House, the National Museum, lunch on the Peace Square, Plečnik's church, the television tower and sunset in the Rieger Gardens beer garden.
The castle route is baroque and medieval Prague; this one begins where the 20th century began, in the Municipal House where Czechoslovakia was declared in 1918, and climbs east into Vinohrady, the elegant tenement quarter where Praguers actually live. It ends in the beer garden with the best view of the castle anywhere outside the castle.
The route, stop by stop
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Municipal House
The Art Nouveau civic centre of 1912, seen on the guided tour, with Mucha's Lord Mayor's Hall as the finale. The café downstairs is the coffee stop.
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National Museum
At the top of Wenceslas Square, reopened in 2018 after seven years of restoration. The pantheon under the dome and the view down the square are worth the ticket alone.
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Náměstí Míru
Lunch on the Peace Square, with the twin neo-Gothic spires of St Ludmila at one end and the Vinohrady theatre at the other.
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Church of the Sacred Heart
Jože Plečnik's church of 1932, a brick ark with a giant clock-face window for a tower, and one of the strangest and most beautiful modern churches in Europe.
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Žižkov Television Tower
A 216-metre rocket of the 1980s with David Černý's giant crawling babies climbing its legs. The observation cabin halfway up looks across the whole city.
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Riegrovy sady
The park on the Vinohrady ridge and its beer garden, where the terrace faces the castle across the city at sunset.
60 min here Walk here →
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