Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
MAP
GOOGLE MAP
( adult/child 150/80Kč, 4-6pm Mon Apr-Oct admission free;
9am-6pm Apr-Oct, to 4pm Nov-Mar)
in the castle's beautiful Renaissance stables houses
an exhibition of 16th- to 18th-century European art, based on the Habsburg collection
that was begun in 1650 to replace the lost paintings; it includes works by Cranach,
Holbein, Rubens, Tintoretto and Titian.
THE STAG MOAT
A footpath on the west side of the Powder Bridge leads down into the Stag Moat
(Jelení příkop), and doubles back through a modern (and rather Freudian) red-brick
tunnel beneath the bridge. If you follow the path east along the moat you'll end up at a
busy road that leads down to Malostranská metro station. A gate on the outer wall of
the castle, overlooking the moat, leads to a nuclear shelter started by the communists
in the 1950s but never completed; its tunnels run beneath most of the castle.
In the 1920s President Masaryk hired a Slovene architect, Jože Plečnik, to renov-
ate the castle; his changes created some of its most memorable features and
made the complex more tourist-friendly.
A WORLD RECORD
According to the
Guinness World Records
, Prague Castle is the largest ancient castle
in the world - 570m long, an average of 128m wide and occupying 7.28 hectares.
