Vyšehrad
Guide
Photo: Tilman2007 · CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
FreeSightAllow 1–2 hPut together by AI from open data
What you'll see
An old fortress on a cliff above the river, now a calm park inside the walls, with a neo-Gothic basilica, a cemetery of famous Czechs and long views back up the river to the castle.
A brief history
Legend makes it the seat of Princess Libuše, who foretold the founding of Prague; the composers Dvořák and Smetana are buried in its cemetery.
Tips
- Best time
- Late afternoon, for the view at sunset
- Cost
- Free
- Allow
- 1–2 h
- Free days
- Always free
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Good to know
- Area
- New Town and Vyšehrad: Wenceslas Square, the National Museum and the river south to the Dancing House and the Vyšehrad fortress. Close to the main station, with good-value hostels.
- Access
- Partly step-free
- Indoors or out
- Outdoors
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