Prague Map and planner Guide Routes ENRU

Prague at length

Everything the other routes cover inside the city, spread over unhurried days with a castle at the end.

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Old Town Square
Photograph: A.Savin / FAL

Day 1

Starts from Old Town Square · 9h at the sights, 57m travelling · 4.6 km

Areas: Staré Město, Nové Město

  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. Bethlehem Chapel — Where Jan Hus preached in Czech, rebuilt from the foundations in the 1950s (40m)
  6. Clementinum — A Jesuit college holding a baroque library hall and an astronomical tower (1h)
  7. Old Town Bridge Tower — The Gothic gate at the Old Town end of the Charles Bridge (30m)
  8. Powder Tower — The Gothic gate where the coronation route began (30m)
  9. Municipal House — Art nouveau at full volume, with a concert hall inside (1h)
  10. House of the Black Madonna — The only cubist department store in the world, with a cubist cafe upstairs (50m)
  11. Estates Theatre — Where Mozart conducted the premiere of Don Giovanni in 1787 (45m)
  12. Lucerna Palace — An arcade of 1920s glass and marble, with a horse hanging upside down (40m)
  13. Wenceslas Square — Not a square but a boulevard, and the stage for 1968 and 1989 (30m)

Day 2

Starts from Old Town Square · 8h 40m at the sights, 1h 02m travelling · 6.9 km

Areas: Nové Město, Hradčany

  1. National Museum — The neo-Renaissance pile at the top of Wenceslas Square (2h)
  2. Royal Garden — The castle's Renaissance garden, with the Ball Game Hall and the Belvedere (45m)
  3. Prague Castle — The largest ancient castle complex in the world, on the ridge above the river (3h)
  4. St. Vitus Cathedral — The Gothic cathedral inside the castle, with the crown jewels and Mucha's window (1h 15m)
  5. Golden Lane — A row of tiny cottages built into the castle wall (40m)
  6. Loreta — A pilgrimage cloister around a Santa Casa, with a carillon (1h)

Day 3

Starts from Old Town Square · 8h 30m at the sights, 1h 17m travelling · 8.6 km

Areas: Hradčany, Malá Strana, Staré Město

  1. Strahov Monastery — A hilltop abbey with two of the great baroque library halls (1h 15m)
  2. Nerudova Street — The climb to the castle, lined with house signs from before street numbers (30m)
  3. St. Nicholas Church (Malá Strana) — The finest baroque church in the city, with a 70-metre dome (45m)
  4. Wallenstein Palace — The general's palace and its garden of bronzes and a dripstone wall (1h)
  5. Vrtba Garden — A terraced baroque garden climbing the hill behind a palace gate (40m)
  6. Lennon Wall — A graffiti wall repainted continuously since 1980 (20m)
  7. Kampa Island — An island under the Charles Bridge, with a mill wheel and a park (45m)
  8. Museum Kampa — Central European modern art in a converted mill on the island (1h 15m)
  9. Charles Bridge — Thirty baroque statues on a fourteenth-century stone bridge (45m)
  10. Petřín — The wooded hill above Malá Strana, with orchards and a funicular (1h 15m)

Day 4

Starts from Old Town Square · 8h 10m at the sights, 49m travelling · 6.5 km

Areas: Malá Strana, Josefov, Staré Město

  1. Petřín Lookout Tower — A sixty-metre iron lookout on the hill, built for the 1891 exhibition (1h)
  2. Old New Synagogue — The oldest working synagogue in Europe, built around 1270 (40m)
  3. Josefov — The former Jewish quarter: six synagogues and the old cemetery (2h)
  4. Spanish Synagogue — Moorish revival interior, every surface gilded and patterned (45m)
  5. Rudolfinum — The neo-Renaissance concert hall on the river, home of the Czech Philharmonic (1h)
  6. Museum of Decorative Arts — Glass, furniture and posters, in a building as good as its contents (1h 30m)
  7. Convent of Saint Agnes — The oldest Gothic building in Prague, now medieval art (1h 15m)

Day 5

Starts from Old Town Square · 8h 10m at the sights, 1h 32m travelling · 11 km

Areas: Nové Město, Vyšehrad, Žižkov

  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. Emmaus Monastery — A Gothic abbey given two concrete spires after the 1945 bombing (45m)
  4. Dancing House — Gehry and Milunic's curved pair on the embankment (25m)
  5. National Theatre — The gold-roofed theatre the Czechs paid for twice (1h)
  6. Rašín Embankment — The riverside vaults and the Saturday farmers' market (45m)
  7. Vyšehrad — The other castle, on a rock south of the centre, quiet and free to walk (1h 30m)
  8. Vyšehrad Cemetery — Where the Czech national revival buried its composers and writers (1h)
  9. Vyšehrad Tunnel — A short rock tunnel under the Vyšehrad cliff, cut in 1905 (20m)
  10. National Monument at Vítkov — A granite slab on a ridge, with the largest equestrian bronze in the world (1h 15m)

Day 6

Starts from Old Town Square · 8h at the sights, 1h 29m travelling · 14 km

Areas: Žižkov, Vinohrady, Holešovice

  1. Žižkov Television Tower — A 216-metre communist-era tower with Cerny's crawling babies on it (1h)
  2. Olšany Cemetery — Two million burials in a walled park, including Jan Palach (1h)
  3. Church of the Most Sacred Heart of Our Lord — Plecnik's 1932 church, a brick box with a glazed clock the size of a rose window (40m)
  4. Vinohrady Water Tower — A neo-Renaissance brick tower above the Vinohrady rooftops (20m)
  5. Letná Park — The plateau above the river, with a beer garden and the metronome (1h)
  6. Trade Fair Palace — Functionalist hall holding the national modern art collection (2h)
  7. Výstaviště Exhibition Grounds — The 1891 exhibition grounds, iron and glass, half restored (1h)
  8. Lapidarium — The original statues from the Charles Bridge and the city gates (1h)

Day 7

Starts from Old Town Square · 8h at the sights, 1h 36m travelling · 36 km

Areas: Bubeneč, Troja, Karlštejn

  1. Stromovka — The old royal hunting park, now the city's largest green space (1h 15m)
  2. Troja Palace — A red and white baroque villa with a staircase full of giants (1h 15m)
  3. Prague Zoo — One of the best zoos in Europe, built into a hillside (3h)
  4. Karlštejn Castle — Charles IV's castle, built to hold the imperial crown jewels (2h 30m)