Basilica of St. George
The Basilica of St. George is the oldest surviving church building within Prague Castle, founded in 920 with a distinctive red-brick Romanesque facade.
Monument in Prague
Dancing House
Also known as Tančící dům
Paid entryThere is an entry charge.
The Dancing House is a deconstructivist building on the Vltava embankment designed by Frank Gehry and Vlado Milunic, nicknamed Fred and Ginger for the way its two towers seem to lean into each other like a dancing couple. Free to admire from outside. The rooftop bar is paid but offers views over the river. Budget travelers walk along the embankment from the National Theatre and photograph one of the most distinctive modern buildings in Central Europe.
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Before you go
- Address
- Jiraskovo namesti 1981/6, 120 00 Prague
- History
- 1996
- Good to know
- Official site
- tfrp.cz
Nearby
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Other places worth the walk, and what each one costs.
Charles Bridge
Charles IV laid the foundation stone of the Karluv most at 5:31 AM on July 9, 1357, a moment chosen for its numerological palindrome (1-3-5-7-9-7-5-3-1) that the emperor believed would give the bridge supernatural strength. The bridge took 45 years to build and was Prague's only Vltava crossing for nearly 500 years.
Estates Theatre
The Estates Theatre is a neoclassical theater where Mozart personally premiered Don Giovanni in 1787. The exterior is free to admire and the interior can be experienced through performances with ticket prices well below Western European opera houses.
Golden Lane
Zlata ulicka (Golden Lane) is a row of tiny houses built in the late 16th century directly against the inside wall of Prague Castle's fortifications. Each house is a single room wide, painted in different colors, and the overall effect is somewhere between a fairy tale and a documentary about how the castle's service workers actually lived.
John Lennon Wall
The John Lennon Wall in Mala Strana has been covered in graffiti, lyrics, and political messages since the 1980s. It started as a quiet act of defiance during the communist era and became a permanent, ever-changing street art surface.
Jewish Quarter Prague
Prague's Josefov, the former Jewish ghetto, documents one of Europe's oldest Jewish communities and its near-total destruction during the Holocaust. The combined museum ticket covers six synagogues and the Old Jewish Cemetery, where headstones are stacked in layers because the ground was too full to accommodate them in a single layer.
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