
Prague Castle: Kings, Astronomers and Prisoners
The lane without alchemists and the prisoner with a violin let you compare the castle's legends with the stories of its places.
How long has each legend been told, and what lies beneath it?
5 walks with different starting points and stories. Compare their maps, stops and duration, then choose where to begin.
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Prague's legends change with the street from which they're told. This theme brings together mysteries attached to its neighbourhoods and monuments, alongside the question of where each tale began. A good story can still be enjoyable when you distinguish a documented episode, a later tradition and an explanation the city has kept repeating.
In “Prague Castle”: The lane without alchemists and the prisoner with a violin let you compare the castle's legends with the stories of its places.
In “Prague Legends”: Prague loves its legends, and here you'll hear them all with one question in mind: how long have people been telling them?
In “Upper Hradčany”: You stand before a palace so long that an emperor made fun of it, and where, centuries later, a minister fell from a window in a way nobody has yet been able to explain.
Choose from 5 independent walks in Prague. Open the one that interests you to see its map, stops and approximate duration before deciding. You don't need to do them all or follow this selection's order; each walk has its own starting and finishing points.
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The lane without alchemists and the prisoner with a violin let you compare the castle's legends with the stories of its places.

You stand before a palace so long that an emperor made fun of it, and where, centuries later, a minister fell from a window in a way nobody has yet been able to explain.

This walk begins at the statue of Rabbi Loew, the man legend credited with a giant made of clay two hundred years after his death, and ends with Kafka riding on the shoulders of an empty suit.

Prague loves its legends, and here you'll hear them all with one question in mind: how long have people been telling them?

You begin in front of the house where legend says the devil carried Faust off through the ceiling, and find out who really lived there.
Prague is a city of cobbled squares, bridges and a hill your legs will notice. Group walks by riverbank and leave room to stop: looking is part of the journey.
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