Walks · Prague · English
5 narrated stops, 16 minutes of stories, 2.3 km on foot. Press play at each stop — no app needed — or open the walk in Avsha and let the stories keep coming as you move.
Stop 1 · 3 min
In short: The Klementinum is known for its Baroque Library Hall and Astronomical Tower, which signaled noon using a flag and cannon. It also maintains one of the world's longest unbroken daily weather records, recorded continuously since 1775.
↓ 700 m · 10 min to the next stop
Stop 2 · 3 min
In short: According to legend, a statue of the Virgin Mary grabbed a thief attempting to steal her jewels. When the statue refused to release him, the man's arm was amputated and hung by the door as a reminder against stealing from the church.
↓ 500 m · 7 min to the next stop
Stop 3 · 3 min
In short: The Convent of St. Agnes, founded in the 1230s, is Prague's oldest Gothic building. It is linked to the 1989 Velvet Revolution, because Agnes's canonization five days earlier fulfilled a prophecy that her sainthood would bring peace to the Czech lands.
↓ 450 m · 6 min to the next stop
Stop 4 · 3 min
In short: A 1648 Swedish cannonball from the Thirty Years' War is lodged in the tower's northern facade. Citizens set it into the wall when rebuilding the tower in 1658 as a tribute to the city's resilience following Swedish bombardment.
↓ 650 m · 9 min to the next stop
Stop 5 · 3 min
In short: The independence of Czechoslovakia was officially proclaimed on October 28, 1918, inside the Municipal House in Prague. This Art Nouveau palace, completed in 1912, served as a cultural statement for the Czech people during the Austro-Hungarian Empire's rule.