Every sight in Prague
A guide to every sight in Prague, with a map and a day-by-day planner that keeps each day under ten hours.
Staré Město
- Charles BridgeThirty baroque statues on a fourteenth-century stone bridge
- Prague astronomical clockThe 1410 clock on the Old Town Hall, with the apostles on the hour
- Old Town SquareThe medieval square the city turns around, ringed by gabled houses
- ClementinumA Jesuit college holding a baroque library hall and an astronomical tower
- Church of Our Lady before TýnThe twin black spires over the Old Town Square
- Powder TowerThe Gothic gate where the coronation route began
- Municipal HouseArt nouveau at full volume, with a concert hall inside
- Estates TheatreWhere Mozart conducted the premiere of Don Giovanni in 1787
- Church of St. James the GreaterA baroque basilica with the best organ in the city, and a mummified arm
- Convent of Saint AgnesThe oldest Gothic building in Prague, now medieval art
- Bethlehem ChapelWhere Jan Hus preached in Czech, rebuilt from the foundations in the 1950s
- Old Town Bridge TowerThe Gothic gate at the Old Town end of the Charles Bridge
- House of the Black MadonnaThe only cubist department store in the world, with a cubist cafe upstairs
Malá Strana
- Petřín Lookout TowerA sixty-metre iron lookout on the hill, built for the 1891 exhibition
- St. Nicholas Church (Malá Strana)The finest baroque church in the city, with a 70-metre dome
- Malá StranaBaroque palaces and steep lanes between the bridge and the castle
- PetřínThe wooded hill above Malá Strana, with orchards and a funicular
- Kampa IslandAn island under the Charles Bridge, with a mill wheel and a park
- Lennon WallA graffiti wall repainted continuously since 1980
- Nerudova StreetThe climb to the castle, lined with house signs from before street numbers
- Wallenstein PalaceThe general's palace and its garden of bronzes and a dripstone wall
- Vrtba GardenA terraced baroque garden climbing the hill behind a palace gate
- Museum KampaCentral European modern art in a converted mill on the island
Nové Město
- Wenceslas SquareNot a square but a boulevard, and the stage for 1968 and 1989
- National TheatreThe gold-roofed theatre the Czechs paid for twice
- National MuseumThe neo-Renaissance pile at the top of Wenceslas Square
- Dancing HouseGehry and Milunic's curved pair on the embankment
- Lucerna PalaceAn arcade of 1920s glass and marble, with a horse hanging upside down
- Charles SquareThe largest square in the city, laid out by Charles IV and now a park
- Emmaus MonasteryA Gothic abbey given two concrete spires after the 1945 bombing
- New Town HallWhere the first defenestration of Prague happened in 1419
- Rašín EmbankmentThe riverside vaults and the Saturday farmers' market
Hradčany
- Prague CastleThe largest ancient castle complex in the world, on the ridge above the river
- St. Vitus CathedralThe Gothic cathedral inside the castle, with the crown jewels and Mucha's window
- Golden LaneA row of tiny cottages built into the castle wall
- Strahov MonasteryA hilltop abbey with two of the great baroque library halls
- LoretaA pilgrimage cloister around a Santa Casa, with a carillon
- Royal GardenThe castle's Renaissance garden, with the Ball Game Hall and the Belvedere
Josefov
- Old New SynagogueThe oldest working synagogue in Europe, built around 1270
- Spanish SynagogueMoorish revival interior, every surface gilded and patterned
- JosefovThe former Jewish quarter: six synagogues and the old cemetery
- RudolfinumThe neo-Renaissance concert hall on the river, home of the Czech Philharmonic
- Museum of Decorative ArtsGlass, furniture and posters, in a building as good as its contents
Žižkov
- Žižkov Television TowerA 216-metre communist-era tower with Cerny's crawling babies on it
- ŽižkovThe working-class hill district, still the city's drinking quarter
- National Monument at VítkovA granite slab on a ridge, with the largest equestrian bronze in the world
- Olšany CemeteryTwo million burials in a walled park, including Jan Palach
Holešovice
- Letná ParkThe plateau above the river, with a beer garden and the metronome
- Trade Fair PalaceFunctionalist hall holding the national modern art collection
- Výstaviště Exhibition GroundsThe 1891 exhibition grounds, iron and glass, half restored
- LapidariumThe original statues from the Charles Bridge and the city gates
Vyšehrad
- VyšehradThe other castle, on a rock south of the centre, quiet and free to walk
- Vyšehrad CemeteryWhere the Czech national revival buried its composers and writers
- Vyšehrad TunnelA short rock tunnel under the Vyšehrad cliff, cut in 1905
Troja
- Prague ZooOne of the best zoos in Europe, built into a hillside
- Troja PalaceA red and white baroque villa with a staircase full of giants
Vinohrady
- Vinohrady Water TowerA neo-Renaissance brick tower above the Vinohrady rooftops
- Church of the Most Sacred Heart of Our LordPlecnik's 1932 church, a brick box with a glazed clock the size of a rose window
Břevnov
- Hvězda Game ReserveA six-pointed Renaissance summer palace in a walled wood
- Břevnov MonasteryThe oldest monastery in Bohemia, rebuilt in baroque around its spring
Kutná Hora
- St. Barbara's ChurchThe cathedral the silver miners built, with three tent roofs
- Kutná HoraThe medieval silver town, and the ossuary at Sedlec