From the National Theatre and Café Slavia along the Vltava past the Dancing House, the Heydrich crypt and the Emmaus Monastery, down to the Náplavka embankment and up to Vyšehrad and its national cemetery.
Best time: Saturday morning, for the Náplavka farmers' market; the last part climbs up to Vyšehrad.
The alma mater of Czech opera and a national monument of Czech history and art on the Vltava embankment. Its opera, ballet and drama companies still perform here.
Opened in August 1884 opposite the National Theatre. Rilke was a regular, and Václav Havel and other dissidents met here during normalization. It has been called Prague's…
The "Ginger and Fred" building on Rašín Embankment, designed in 1992 by Vlado Milunić with Frank Gehry on an empty riverfront plot and finished in 1996. Its two curving towers…
The main Orthodox church of the Czech lands. Its crypt is a memorial to the paratroopers who assassinated Reinhard Heydrich in 1942 and hid here, and bullet holes from the final…
Gothic cloister murals and the modern roof. 20 min
A Benedictine abbey founded in 1347. Its cloister has a 1360s cycle of 85 Gothic wall paintings. The church was hit by a US bombing raid on 14 February 1945 and got its modern…
Riverside market (Saturdays) or a drink by the water. 30 min
On Saturdays the Rašín Embankment riverside fills with a farmers' market selling local produce, baked goods and crafts, with views of the castle. On other days it is a string of…
Graves of Dvořák, Smetana, Mucha and the Slavín tomb. 25 min
Prague's national cemetery since 1869. Antonín Dvořák, Bedřich Smetana, Karel Čapek and Alphonse Mucha are buried here, and the Slavín tomb by Antonín Wiehl is at its centre.
A fort probably founded in the 10th century on the east bank, just over 3 km from Prague Castle. Inside are the Basilica of St. Peter and St. Paul, the national cemetery and the…
