Petřín
Petřín (Czech pronunciation: Vltava River. The hill, almost entirely covered with parks, is a favorite recreational area for the inhabitants of Prague.[1] The hill (in German known as Laurenziberg) is featured prominently in Franz Kafka's early short story "Description of a Struggle" and briefly in Milan Kundera's novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being.[2]
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Cathedral of Saint Lawrence
, and St Michael Church.
The summit of the hill is linked to Prague's Malá Strana district by the Petřín funicular, a funicular railway that first operated in 1891.
Main sights
- Petřín lookout tower
- Petřín funicular
- Hunger Wall
- Mirror Maze
- Rose Garden
- Štefánik's Observatory
- Strahov Stadium
- St Lawrence Cathedral
- St. Michael the Archangel Church (wooden church from the second half of the 17th century in Subcarpathian Ruthenia in 1929)[4]
- Memorial to the Victims of Communism
References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Petřín.
- ^ Czech-tourist-service - Petřín Gardens
- ^ "The Unbearable Lightness of Being Part 4: Soul and body Summary & Analysis".
- ISBN 80-7185-515-4. page 31.
- ^ "Organizace". Archived from the original on 2017-07-03. Retrieved 2017-07-16.
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