Along the Vltava to Vyšehrad

The stops, in walking order

1. 1

   

   Stop 1: Dancing House

   ~3 min here

   The Dancing House is a Prague riverfront building, completed in 1996 and designed by Vlado Milunić with Frank Gehry.

2. 2

   

   Stop 2: National Theatre

   ~3 min here

   The National Theatre before you is Prague’s historic opera house, long treated as a national monument of Czech history and art.

3. 3

   

   Stop 3: New Town Hall

   ~3 min here

   New Town Hall is Prague’s New Town civic hall.

4. 4

   

   Stop 4: svatý Longin

   ~15 min here

   St. Longin’s Rotunda is a preserved Romanesque rotunda, its rounded masonry marking it as a rare survivor in Prague.

5. 5

   

   Stop 5: Vyšehrad Cemetery

   ~3 min here

   Vyšehrad Cemetery is Prague’s national burial ground, holding the graves of major figures from Czech cultural and public life.

6. 6

   

   Stop 6: Vyšehrad

   ~3 min here

   Vyšehrad spreads across a rocky height above the Vltava: a historic stronghold that became a castle and, later, a fortress.

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