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Petřín
This 318m-high hill is one of Prague's largest green spaces. It's great for quiet, tree-
shaded walks and fine views over the 'City of a Hundred Spires'. There were once
vineyards here, and a quarry that provided the stone for most of Prague's Romanesque
and Gothic buildings.
Petřín is easily accessible on foot from Strahov Monastery, or you can ride the fu-
nicular railway (lanová draha) from Újezd up to the top. You can also get off two-
thirds of the way up at Nebozízek.
In the peaceful Kinský Garden (Kinského zahrada), on the southern side of
Petřín, is the 18th-century wooden Church of St Michael (kostel sv Michala),
transferred here, log by log, from the village of Medveďov in Ukraine. Such struc-
tures are rare in Bohemia, though still common in Ukraine and northeastern Slovakia.
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(Petřínská rozhledna; 257 320 112; adult/child 105/55Kč; 10am-10pm Apr-Sep, to 8pm
Mar & Oct, to 6pm Nov-Feb; funicular railway) The summit of Petřín is topped off with a
62m-tall Eiffel Tower lookalike built in 1891 for the Prague Exposition. You can
climb its 299 steps for some of the best views in Prague - on clear days you can see
the forests of Central Bohemia to the southwest. (There's also a lift.) On the way to
the tower you cross the Hunger Wall (Hladová zeď), running from Újezd to Strahov.
These fortifications were built in 1362 under Charles IV, and are so named because
they were built by the poor of the city in return for food - an early job-creation
scheme.
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