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Prague in five days

A fuller first visit: the Old Town, the castle, Malá Strana, the Jewish quarter and Vyšehrad.

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Old Town Square
Photograph: A.Savin / FAL

Day 1

Starts from Old Town Square · 5h 40m at the sights, 28m travelling · 3.5 km

Areas: Staré Město, Hradčany

  1. Old Town Square — The medieval square the city turns around, ringed by gabled houses (45m)
  2. Prague astronomical clock — The 1410 clock on the Old Town Hall, with the apostles on the hour (30m)
  3. Church of Our Lady before Týn — The twin black spires over the Old Town Square (40m)
  4. Church of St. James the Greater — A baroque basilica with the best organ in the city, and a mummified arm (40m)
  5. Powder Tower — The Gothic gate where the coronation route began (30m)
  6. Municipal House — Art nouveau at full volume, with a concert hall inside (1h)
  7. House of the Black Madonna — The only cubist department store in the world, with a cubist cafe upstairs (50m)
  8. Royal Garden — The castle's Renaissance garden, with the Ball Game Hall and the Belvedere (45m)

Day 2

Starts from Old Town Square · 7h 40m at the sights, 53m travelling · 5.2 km

Areas: Hradčany, Malá Strana

  1. Prague Castle — The largest ancient castle complex in the world, on the ridge above the river (3h)
  2. St. Vitus Cathedral — The Gothic cathedral inside the castle, with the crown jewels and Mucha's window (1h 15m)
  3. Golden Lane — A row of tiny cottages built into the castle wall (40m)
  4. Loreta — A pilgrimage cloister around a Santa Casa, with a carillon (1h)
  5. Strahov Monastery — A hilltop abbey with two of the great baroque library halls (1h 15m)
  6. Nerudova Street — The climb to the castle, lined with house signs from before street numbers (30m)

Day 3

Starts from Old Town Square · 8h at the sights, 59m travelling · 7.3 km

Areas: Malá Strana, Staré Město, Josefov

  1. St. Nicholas Church (Malá Strana) — The finest baroque church in the city, with a 70-metre dome (45m)
  2. Wallenstein Palace — The general's palace and its garden of bronzes and a dripstone wall (1h)
  3. Lennon Wall — A graffiti wall repainted continuously since 1980 (20m)
  4. Kampa Island — An island under the Charles Bridge, with a mill wheel and a park (45m)
  5. Charles Bridge — Thirty baroque statues on a fourteenth-century stone bridge (45m)
  6. Petřín Lookout Tower — A sixty-metre iron lookout on the hill, built for the 1891 exhibition (1h)
  7. Old New Synagogue — The oldest working synagogue in Europe, built around 1270 (40m)
  8. Josefov — The former Jewish quarter: six synagogues and the old cemetery (2h)
  9. Spanish Synagogue — Moorish revival interior, every surface gilded and patterned (45m)

Day 4

Starts from Old Town Square · 7h 40m at the sights, 46m travelling · 3.7 km

Areas: Josefov, Staré Město, Nové Město

  1. Rudolfinum — The neo-Renaissance concert hall on the river, home of the Czech Philharmonic (1h)
  2. Museum of Decorative Arts — Glass, furniture and posters, in a building as good as its contents (1h 30m)
  3. Convent of Saint Agnes — The oldest Gothic building in Prague, now medieval art (1h 15m)
  4. Estates Theatre — Where Mozart conducted the premiere of Don Giovanni in 1787 (45m)
  5. Wenceslas Square — Not a square but a boulevard, and the stage for 1968 and 1989 (30m)
  6. Lucerna Palace — An arcade of 1920s glass and marble, with a horse hanging upside down (40m)
  7. National Museum — The neo-Renaissance pile at the top of Wenceslas Square (2h)

Day 5

Starts from Old Town Square · 6h 10m at the sights, 1h 06m travelling · 6.6 km

Areas: Nové Město, Vyšehrad

  1. New Town Hall — Where the first defenestration of Prague happened in 1419 (40m)
  2. Charles Square — The largest square in the city, laid out by Charles IV and now a park (30m)
  3. Dancing House — Gehry and Milunic's curved pair on the embankment (25m)
  4. National Theatre — The gold-roofed theatre the Czechs paid for twice (1h)
  5. Vyšehrad — The other castle, on a rock south of the centre, quiet and free to walk (1h 30m)
  6. Vyšehrad Cemetery — Where the Czech national revival buried its composers and writers (1h)
  7. Vyšehrad Tunnel — A short rock tunnel under the Vyšehrad cliff, cut in 1905 (20m)
  8. Rašín Embankment — The riverside vaults and the Saturday farmers' market (45m)