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Petřín, Letná, Stromovka and the Vltava islands. Prague is unusually steep, and the walk up is the price of the best views.

The lookout tower on Petřín hill
Photograph by Suisant7, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

Prague is unusually steep, and the walk up is the price of every good view in the city.

Petřín is the hill on the castle side: a funicular runs up it, there is a lookout tower at the top, and the rose garden below it is free and largely empty compared with anything across the river. Letná, on the opposite bank, gives the view along the bridges that most photographs of Prague are taken from — and has a beer garden attached to it.

Stromovka is the large flat park to the north, and the Vltava islands in the centre are small, free and the easiest escape from the crowd on the bridge.

Articles here cover which green space is actually reachable on foot, what the funicular costs, and where the views are worth the climb.

The Petrin lookout tower against the sky
Petřín's rose garden is free and usually near-empty. Photograph by A.Savin, Wikimedia Commons, FAL
The basilica at Vysehrad
Vyšehrad's ramparts are free, and the view matches the centre. Photograph by Godot13, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
A Lennon portrait on the Lennon Wall
Kampa, below the Lennon Wall, is one of the quietest corners in Malá Strana. Photograph by Lennonova zeď, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

This section is being written. The guide above is the section for now. New articles are published across the site about twice a week rather than a section being filled in a day, so this page grows steadily — it is worth looking in again. In the meantime the sixteen sight pages and the plans by trip length are finished, and they are the best place to start.

Queued for this section

  • How do you get up Petřín, and is the funicular worth it?
  • What is the Vltava river worth doing, and what is a tourist trap?

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