Prague in 2 days, on foot

This 2-day self-guided walking plan for Prague covers 35 narrated sights in an easy day-by-day order. Each day is split into a morning and an afternoon loop, and every stop has a two to three minute audio story in the Gingerguide app.

You set the pace: this is a suggested order, not a schedule. Walk it in 2 days, or stretch it out. Reorder freely; Prague rewards a detour.

The Prague route at a glance

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Stops in route order, one colour per day. A diagram of shape and distance, not a street map; the app has the live map.

Day 1

Day 1 covers 18 stops over about 5.1 km as the crow flies, from Charles Bridge to Old Jewish Cemetery. ≈ 5.1 km between stops, straight line

Morning

  1. Charles Bridge: A Gothic stone bridge over the Vltava, lined with soot-dark Baroque saints and crossed by endless crowds, linking Prague's Old Town to Malá Strana beneath the watching castle. 0.1 km to the next stop
  2. Vltava River: The Czech Republic's longest river, winding roughly 430 kilometres from the Bohemian Forest, threading past Prague's islands and bridges, and immortalised in Bedřich Smetana's symphonic poem “The Moldau”. 0.2 km to the next stop
  3. Kampa Island: A quiet island in the Vltava beside Malá Strana, ringed by the Čertovka mill channel, home to Museum Kampa, David Černý's crawling babies and a leafy riverside park. 0.2 km to the next stop
  4. Lennon Wall: A constantly repainted graffiti wall on Grand Priory Square in Malá Strana that became a symbol of free expression under communism, honouring John Lennon, who himself never once visited Prague. 0.3 km to the next stop
  5. Lesser Town Square: The historic main square of Malá Strana at the foot of Prague Castle, split by the great Baroque Church of St Nicholas and marked by a Holy Trinity plague column. 0 km to the next stop
  6. Church of St Nicholas (Malá Strana): A High Baroque Jesuit church on Malá Strana's square, celebrated for its huge green dome, sweeping ceiling frescoes, and the organ Mozart played in 1787. 0.8 km to the next stop
  7. Petřín Lookout Tower: An octagonal steel lookout tower on Petřín hill, built in 1891 as a homage to the Eiffel Tower; 299 steps climb to sweeping views over Prague. 0.5 km to the next stop
  8. Strahov Monastery: A hilltop Premonstratensian monastery founded in 1143, famous for two dazzling Baroque library halls, a vast book collection, a cabinet of curiosities, and a revived monastic brewery. 0.4 km to the next stop
  9. The Loreta: A Baroque Marian pilgrimage site in Hradčany, built around a replica of Italy's Holy House, famous for its 27-bell carillon and a diamond monstrance called the Prague Sun. 0.6 km to the next stop

Afternoon

  1. St Vitus Cathedral (Katedrála sv. Víta): The soaring Gothic cathedral crowning Prague Castle, begun by Charles IV in 1344 and completed only in 1929, holding the Bohemian Crown Jewels, royal tombs and Mucha's glowing window. 0 km to the next stop
  2. Prague Castle (Pražský hrad): A walled quarter of palaces, churches and gardens above the Vltava, recognised by Guinness as the world's largest coherent castle complex and the seat of Czech power for centuries. 0.1 km to the next stop
  3. Old Royal Palace (Starý královský palác): The layered seat of Bohemian kings at Prague Castle, home to the pillarless Vladislav Hall and the window of the 1618 defenestration that helped spark the Thirty Years' War. 0.1 km to the next stop
  4. St George's Basilica (Bazilika sv. Jiří): The oldest surviving church at Prague Castle, founded around 920: an austere Romanesque interior hiding behind a cheerful Baroque red facade, and the resting place of Saint Ludmila. 0.1 km to the next stop
  5. Golden Lane (Zlatá ulička): A row of tiny, brightly painted cottages set into Prague Castle's northern wall, once home to guards and goldsmiths, never the gold-making alchemists of legend, and briefly to Franz Kafka. 0.3 km to the next stop
  6. Wallenstein Garden: An early Baroque garden below Prague Castle, with a grand frescoed loggia, a dripstone grotto wall, roaming peacocks, and bronze statues that are copies of looted originals. 0.8 km to the next stop
  7. Klementinum (Clementinum): A vast former Jesuit college in the Old Town, home to a sumptuous Baroque library of 1722, an astronomical tower that once signalled noon, and Central Europe's longest weather record. 0.4 km to the next stop
  8. Rudolfinum: A neo-Renaissance concert hall and gallery of the 1880s on the Vltava embankment, home of the Czech Philharmonic, whose Dvořák Hall ranks among the oldest concert rooms in Europe. 0.1 km to the next stop
  9. Old Jewish Cemetery: Around twelve thousand tilted headstones crowd this walled plot, where the dead lie layered many deep; Rabbi Loew, the Maharal, rests here beneath the cemetery's grandest Renaissance tomb.

Day 2

Day 2 covers 17 stops over about 5.6 km as the crow flies, from Pinkas Synagogue Memorial to Vyšehrad. ≈ 5.6 km between stops, straight line

Morning

  1. Pinkas Synagogue Memorial: A 1535 synagogue whose walls bear the hand-inscribed names of 77,297 Jewish victims of the Shoah from Bohemia and Moravia; children's drawings from Terezín are displayed upstairs. 0.1 km to the next stop
  2. Jewish Town Hall: Mordechai Maisel's Renaissance town hall, later rebuilt in Baroque style, is famous for its gable clock lettered in Hebrew, whose hands run counterclockwise to follow Hebrew's right-to-left reading. 0.1 km to the next stop
  3. Old-New Synagogue: Completed around 1270, this steep-gabled hall is Europe's oldest synagogue still in active use and the oldest surviving twin-nave medieval synagogue, famous in legend as the Golem's resting place. 0.2 km to the next stop
  4. Spanish Synagogue: An 1868 synagogue dazzling with gilded Moorish-Revival decoration inspired by the Alhambra; called “Spanish” for its style, not its worshippers, who were a local Ashkenazi Reform congregation. 0.3 km to the next stop
  5. Church of Our Lady before Týn (Chrám Matky Boží před Týnem): The twin-towered Gothic church on Old Town Square's east side, once the great Hussite sanctuary and the burial place of astronomer Tycho Brahe, its mismatched spires nicknamed Adam and Eve. 0.1 km to the next stop
  6. Old Town Square (Staroměstské náměstí): Prague's historic Old Town marketplace, ringed by Gothic and Baroque façades, centred on the Jan Hus monument and dotted with twenty-seven crosses recalling the executed leaders of 1621. 0.1 km to the next stop
  7. Prague Astronomical Clock (Pražský orloj): A 1410 astronomical clock on the Old Town Hall tower, the oldest still operating; its hourly parade of Apostles and allegorical figures draws crowds onto the square. 0 km to the next stop
  8. Old Town Hall (Staroměstská radnice): Prague's medieval town hall, founded in 1338 and famous for its clock tower; its neo-Gothic wing burned in 1945 and is now a lawn recalling the war. 0.2 km to the next stop
  9. Estates Theatre (Stavovské divadlo): One of Europe's best-preserved Classicist theatres, opened in 1783, where Mozart conducted the world premiere of Don Giovanni in 1787 and Miloš Forman later filmed scenes for Amadeus. 0.3 km to the next stop

Afternoon

  1. Powder Tower / Powder Gate (Prašná brána): A late-Gothic gate tower from 1475 marking the start of Prague's Royal Route; named for its later use as a gunpowder store and restyled by Josef Mocker in the 1880s. 0.1 km to the next stop
  2. Municipal House (Obecní dům): An Art Nouveau landmark of 1905 to 1912 on the old King's Court, decorated by Mucha and others, home to Smetana Hall and tied to Czechoslovak independence in 1918. 0.3 km to the next stop
  3. Mucha Museum (Muchovo muzeum): A compact museum in a Baroque palace on Panská Street devoted to Alfons Mucha, the Czech Art Nouveau master, showing his Paris posters and panels, though not the Slav Epic. 0.3 km to the next stop
  4. Wenceslas Square: Less a square than a 750-metre boulevard, Wenceslas Square climbs from the shops of Mustek to the National Museum, and remains Prague's stage for protest, celebration and history. 0.4 km to the next stop
  5. National Museum: Crowning Wenceslas Square with its dome and grand staircase, the National Museum's Neo-Renaissance palace was finished in 1891, shelled in 1968, and reopened after a sweeping restoration in 2018. 1.3 km to the next stop
  6. National Theatre: Paid for coin by coin through a nationwide public collection, the golden-roofed National Theatre opened in 1881, burned within weeks, and was rebuilt by public donation to reopen in 1883. 0.6 km to the next stop
  7. Dancing House: On the Vltava riverfront, the Dancing House twists two towers into a glass-and-stone waltz. Completed in 1996 by Vlado Milunic with Frank Gehry, it is nicknamed “Fred and Ginger”. 1.3 km to the next stop
  8. Vyšehrad: A hilltop fortress above the Vltava, Vysehrad wraps ramparts, gardens and a neo-Gothic basilica around the Slavin cemetery, where Dvorak, Smetana and Mucha lie among Czech cultural heroes.

Distances are straight-line between stops; streets add a little.

Getting around Prague

DPP runs three metro lines, trams, buses and two funiculars (Petřín and the Zoo), all of which serve the centre.

Tickets: Single tickets cost 39 CZK (30 minutes) or 50 CZK (90 minutes, transfers allowed); short-term passes cost 150 CZK for 24 hours and 350 CZK for 72 hours, slightly less in the app.

From the airport: From Václav Havel Airport, trolleybus 59 links the terminals with the Nádraží Veleslavín metro station on line A for the centre; bus 100 reaches line B at Zličín.

On foot: The historic centre is compact and walkable; the city tourism board describes most sights as a short walk apart.

Sources for the practical notes

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