Prague Old Town: Royal Route Part I

Name: Prague Old Town: Royal Route Part I
Brand: VoiceMap
SKU: 1353
Price: 6.99 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.2 (78 reviews)
Author: Rod

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Prague audio tour: Prague Old Town: Royal Route Part I

This is a 0.8mi walking tour

It takes an average of 60 mins to complete.

Prague

Czech Republic

$6.99

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About the Tour

The Royal Route was a ceremonial procession through Medieval Prague for Czech queens and kings on their coronation day. It traveled across Old Town to the Vltava River, across Charles Bridge and up to St. Vitus Cathedral on Prague Castle. Part 1 leads through you through the city's main thoroughfares of Old Town, with streets and architecture dating back to Romanesque and Gothic times.

Tour Producer

Rod Grover

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A Canadian actor (film and theater), artist (visual and voice), writer and teacher living in Prague for decades. Pastimes of reading, writing, swimming and cycling.

Preview Location

Location 1

Start - Municipal House

Welcome to a tour of the Royal Route through Prague's Old Town. My name is Rod, and I'll be your guide.

You should be standing in a small square next to the art-nouveau-style Obecni Dum, or Municipal House. Ironically you are standing in what is called New Town, just outsid... Welcome to a tour of the Royal Route through Prague's Old Town. My name is Rod, and I'll be your guide.

You should be standing in a small square next to the art-nouveau-style Obecni Dum, or Municipal House. Ironically you are standing in what is called New Town, just outside the walls of Medieval Prague.

Before we get started, let me give you a bit of background.

Since the first coronation of a Czech king in 1086 to the last one in 1836, 26 Czech kings and 28 queens were crowned and blessed. Coronations happen in a ceremonial mass in the St. Vitus Cathedral at the Prague Castle, on the west side of the Vltava River. At the height of the Middle Ages, King Wenceslav IV established his Royal Court here in Old Town, an urban royal residence with luxurious accommodation and appropriate representation for that period. It was located by the fortification wall dividing the Old Town and New Town, along the busy road to Kutná Hora. The coronation processions to St. Vitus Cathedral started to follow this route in the middle of the 1400s, at the crowning of Albert II of Hapsburg in 1438.

Turn to face the Municipal House, and look at the tall dark tower to the left of it. Can you see it? It has a large archway at its base, which the road runs through.

That was the main gate on that road to Kutna Hora, and Prague's fortified walls ran to the south and north. All those walls are gone now, and only a few towers remain. The Municipal House next to it was built in the late 1800s, and occupies the land where wall and royal residence once stood.

OK, so let's be on our way! Turn so that the Municipal House is on your right-hand side, and walk across the square. Then cross over the pedestrian crossing just in front of the tower – but beware of the traffic. Celetna Street was and still is a major thoroughfare through the commercial heart of Prague in the Middle Ages.

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Major Landmarks

Old Town Square Prague
Charles Bridge

Getting There

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Start location
Náměstí Republiky 5, 111 21 Praha 1-Staré Město, Czechia
Total distance

1km
Final location
Křižovnické nám., Staré Město, 110 00 Praha-Praha 1, Czechia
Distance back to start location

1km

Directions to Starting Point

We'll start outside the Municipal House, Obecní dům, on Na Příkopě.

Go to Namesti republiky (Republican Square), an underground stop on Metro B line (Yellow) and follow the signs to the surface. Then walk west, and turn left onto the square when the road curves. Follow the square until you reach the Municipal House.

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Tips

Places to stop along the way

Museum of Czech Cubism, tours of the House of the Stone Bell (Old Town Square) and Old Town City Hall (Staroměstská radnice)

Best time of day

Early morning is the best time to avoid the heavier tourist traffic

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