Petřín
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Petřín (327 m) is a hill in the center of Prague, Czech Republic. It rises some 130 m above the left bank of the Vltava River. The hill, almost entirely covered with parks, is a favorite recreational area for the inhabitants of Prague. 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 "The Unbearable Lightness of Being."
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.
[edit] Major sights of Petřín
- Hunger Wall
- Strahov Monastery
- Petřín funicular
- Petřín lookout tower
- Štefánik´s Observatory
- Rose Garden
- St Lawrence Church
- St Michael Church (wooden, transferred from Subcarpathian Ruthenia in 1920s)
- Memorial to the victims of Communism
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