Prague Castle (Czech Republic)

How do you like your castles? Do you go for grey, forbidding, lurking hulks with curtain walls and implicit violence? Or something more refined like a French chateau, more curlicues than crenellations? Do you like to poke about in weed-grow ruins or do you prefer your castles with a roof and coats-of-armour furnishings? What about size - a small tower to guard a pass, or a full-scale fortress covering a large area and a lot of history? The point I'm making is that "castle" encompasses a wide variety of structures and a range of purposes. So on my first visit to Prazsky Hrad, Prague Castle, I was prepared for any or all of those things, but what I found didn't ...  Read the complete review

I went to Prague Castle last week while on holiday with my dad. He's really interested in history and we'd been told that this was one of Prague's must-sees. I'd been before a few years ago to see the admission-free parts but couldn't remember anything about it (perhaps this quite telling). --Getting there-- Although we were staying in Mala Strana, the same part of town as the castle (we could see it from our hotel!), it took us the best part of an hour to get up the hill to it because there are only a couple of streets with access to the castle and they're not very well signposted. Sometimes the signs even send you in the wrong direction. We ...  Read the complete review

As some of you will know from my other review I visited Prague recently. I didn't include Prague Castle in that review because it seemed like the review was already really long but as it is one of the main attractions. This review is going to be really mixed because there is so much to Prague castle. It's really like going to a little village because there is so much to the castle and the area around it and if you want to see it all then you'll need to spend the entire day there. -Tickets- I bought a Prague Card and got the short tour free on that but if you don't have a prague card the prices are: Short Tour- 250 crowns (£9.22) Long ...  Read the complete review