Because Prague has such a compact city center, walking tours are a perfect way to explore. With a personable guide, you’ll experience and insider’s perspective of this enthralling city. It’s a great way to see a lot of what Prague has to offer in a short amount of time and there are even specialized tours available such as the Ghosts and Legends of Old Town walking tour or Alchemy and Mysteries of Prague Castle! Other tours include the Prague All Inclusive tour, Jewish Ghetto Tour, and the Prague Castle and Canal River Cruise tour.
Walking through the mysterious streets of old Prague is a truly impressive experience. This is where history was often written. Enjoy an experienced guide and see for yourself that Prague offers many charms and mysterious or unusual places. You will have an amazing experience on a trip to see the Ghosts and Legends of Prague’s Old Town. Your steps will lead you through the narrow cobbled streets where history was writen by murderers, alchemists and immortal spirits of old Prague.
The Jewish Quarter is another mysterious place that is perfect for walking. In this smallest cadastral area of the capital, you will find a large number of monuments of the old times. In the Jewish Quarter, people certainly did not have an easy life. The inhabitants were almost wiped out by the medieval plague, devastating fires and regular floods. One of the most mysterious places is definitely the Jewish cemetery, where people have been buried for over 350 years. Today you can still admire around 12,000 tombstones.
Prague was also the place of important and fatal moments during the World War II. If you want to learn about the background of Operation Anthropoid, you can take a three-hour guided tour with us. You will get an idea of what life was like in the capital during the occupation and the consequences of the assassination of Reich Protector Heydrich.
Perhaps the most famous psychiatric hospital is Prague’s hospital Bohnice. It has a rather complex history, in fact it hints at a dark history in the field of psychiatry. Be prepared to enter a whole new different world stained with torturous and deadly treatments inflicted on the most unfortunate patients who occupied these wards for centuries. Many of tem are buried at the abandoned cemetery that used to belong to this sanatorium.