Prague Discovery Tour: Stones That Outlast Their Rulers
165 min
3.5 km
12 stops
About this tour
Eight stops (~2.6 km, no leg over 850 m) cross Prague's Old Town from the Astronomical Clock to the bottom of Wenceslas Square: a medieval cosmic calendar built to impress an empire, a Gothic cathedral sheltering a Danish astronomer's bones, the quarter where Kafka grew up haunted by bureaucracy and identity, the Jewish Cemetery's twelve layers of graves pressed into a space the ghetto walls would not expand, 80,000 names on a synagogue wall, a medieval bridge where thirty saints watch the river, a Reformation chapel where a priest was condemned to the fire, and a boulevard where communism ran out of excuses. Self-guided in the StepQuests app: GPS between stops, stories you read on your phone.
Itinerary
12 guided stops on this route
Astronomical Clock
The Astronomical Clock on the Old Town Hall has worked since 1410 and is among the oldest working astronomical clocks. Its rings show the zodiac and the positi…
Týn Cathedral
The Týn church on Old Town Square was begun in 1365. A famous astronomer is buried near the entrance. His observations were the most accurate before the telesc…
Franz Kafka Square
Franz Kafka was born in this area and lived most of his life a few streets away. He wrote in German, including The Metamorphosis. From 1908 to 1922 he worked b…
Old-New Synagogue
The Old-New Synagogue has an early Gothic interior with a striking vault. The double nave and iron window grilles are almost unchanged. It is closed on Saturda…
Old Jewish Cemetery
The Old Jewish Cemetery was used from about 1439 to 1787 and holds an estimated 100,000 burials, up to twelve layers deep. The grave of Rabbi Judah Loew, the M…
Pinkas Synagogue
The Pinkas Synagogue of 1535 is a memorial. Its walls carry 77,297 names of Jewish victims from Bohemia and Moravia, painted in 1954-1959, covered in 1968 and…
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