The meeting point is directly at the "Pražský hrad" (Prague Castle) stop (tram line 22 or 23, direction "Bílá hora"). Your guide, Mr. Robert Procházka, will be waiting for you at the "Pražský hrad" (Prague Castle) stop.
During a three-hour guided tour in German, you will visit St. Vitus Cathedral, the Old Royal Palace, St. George's Basilica, and the Golden Lane with the historian, Mr. Procházka.
The guided tour ends in the Golden Lane.
The grounds of the breathtaking Prague Castle, from which you can enjoy a magnificent view of the entire city, are even listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest enclosed castle grounds in the world.
St. Vitus Cathedral is the burial and coronation site of Bohemian kings. The oldest predecessor building, a Romanesque rotunda, was founded as early as around 925. The most important patron saints of the country, such as St. Wenceslas or St. Adalbert. The cathedral is the masterpiece of 14th-century Gothic architecture. From the Wenceslas Chapel, decorated with semi-precious stones, where the remains of St. Wenceslas rest in a Gothic shrine, a spiral staircase leads to the Crown Chamber, where the coronation regalia are kept.
In the Royal Palace, you can see the replica of the Bohemian crown jewels, visit the largest late Gothic throne room in Central Europe, and the site of the Third Defenestration of Prague (State Chancellery), which initiated the Thirty Years' War.
St. George's Basilica from the 10th century houses, among other things, the tomb of St. Ludmila, grandmother of St. Wenceslas, who was strangled by Viking warriors at the behest of her daughter-in-law.
In the picturesque Golden Lane, you will be transported back to the 16th century. Alchemists of Emperor Rudolph II were there in search of an elixir of life and tried to make gold from lead. The famous Prague writer Franz Kafka also lived in one of the small houses.
