Petřín
Petřín as seen from Vyšehrad Castle
Petřín as seen from the Old Town Bridge Tower
Not to be confused with Petřiny.
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 novel 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.
Main sights
- Hunger Wall
- Strahov Monastery
- Petřín funicular
- Petřín lookout tower
- Štefánik´s Observatory
- Strahov Stadium
- Silicon Hill student club of Strahov Dorms
- Mirror Maze
- Rose Garden
- St Lawrence Cathedral
- St Michael Church (wooden, transferred from Subcarpathian Ruthenia in 1920s)
- Memorial to the victims of Communism
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Coordinates: 50°05′01″N 14°23′43″E / 50.08361°N 14.39528°E