Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
The fortress of Vyšehrad, south of Nové Město, was one of the earliest settlements in
Prague, and is by far the most enticing of the city's outlying sights. Its cemetery con-
tains the remains of Bohemia's artistic elite; the ramparts afford superb views over the
river; and below the fortress stand several examples of Czech Cubist architecture. By
the end of his reign in 1378, Charles IV had laid out his city on such a grand scale that
it wasn't until the mid-nineteenth-century Industrial Revolution that Prague began to
spread beyond the boundaries of the medieval town. The first suburbs were planned to
the east of the old town, with public parks and grid street plans. Of these eastern dis-
tricts, Vinohrady and Žižkov best retain their individual late nineteenth-century iden-
tities.
