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Malá Strana and Petřín

Baroque palaces, the general's garden, the painted wall and the climb to the lookout tower.

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Wallenstein Palace
Photograph: Bengt Oberger / CC BY-SA 3.0

Day 1

Starts from Malostranská · 7h 30m at the sights, 56m travelling · 4.4 km

Areas: Malá Strana

  1. Wallenstein Palace — The general's palace and its garden of bronzes and a dripstone wall (1h)
  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. Vrtba Garden — A terraced baroque garden climbing the hill behind a palace gate (40m)
  5. Lennon Wall — A graffiti wall repainted continuously since 1980 (20m)
  6. Kampa Island — An island under the Charles Bridge, with a mill wheel and a park (45m)
  7. Museum Kampa — Central European modern art in a converted mill on the island (1h 15m)
  8. Petřín — The wooded hill above Malá Strana, with orchards and a funicular (1h 15m)
  9. Petřín Lookout Tower — A sixty-metre iron lookout on the hill, built for the 1891 exhibition (1h)