Are you already in Prague some days before your congress starts? You have unique chance to visit set of baroque gardens placed in Lesser Town, in western, left hand side of the city of Prague. Our visit
will be composed from visiting Wallenstein garden, followed by the complex of the palace gardens
bellow Prague castle as Ledebour, Pálffy and Kolowrat gardens (part of Palace gardens below Prague
castle will be closed for reconstruction reasons during the years 2019 – 2020, but still left enough to
see). And the tour will be crowned by the visit of Vrtba garden, which is situated across the Lesser
Town Square.
The first our visit - Wallenstein garden was built as a part of Wallenstein palace at the beginning of
17th century for Albrecht of Wallenstein and it is considered as second biggest garden in Lesser Town.
Unlike from our other places to be visited druid our tour this garden is situated on the ground (not
type of terrace garden). It is known for its Sala terrena with the motif of the God Mars, artificial
grotto where you can search for hidden snakes or frogs or you can admire set of precious statues of
Dutch sculptor Adrien de Vries (today copies, the originals are in Sweden). This garden is surrounded
by the buildings which in past were possessed by Albrecht of Wallenstein and today serve as
the Senate – former stables or the gallery – the ridding school in the past. From fauna you can admire
colored or white peacock.
The second part of our tour will take us to the gardens below Prague castle. Their origin falls at the end
of 18th Century. They always made represented an integral part of their family property – palaces
standing down below. You can admire not only great view of the city of Prague, but you will be impress
by sophisticated garden architecture of baroque masters of 18th century. The proprietors as the
investors together with skilled architects were able to exploit nature shape of the terrain and convert
it into very famous terrace gardens. You will see sala terrena, Hercules fountain and uncountable number of the views of the city.
For the visit of the last from three gardens we will walk about 10 minutes across Lesser Town and can
be fascinated by the composition of baroque Vrtba garden. The investor in 1st half of 18th Century was
the highest burgrave of the Prague Castle Jan Joseph count Vrtba, the builder František Kaňka. The garden is divided into three parts - sala Terena with basin and the sculpture of the putti and sea
monster, central part with balustrade stairway. The upper part graduates with three fields panels with
the frescos with the motif of water deity decorated also by grotto shells. After getting upstairs you
have fascinated view of the city.
The tour can be repeated in another time upon your request if you set up the group of minimum 5
persons together. Contact, please, info@bellprague.cz.
Malostranská metro station next to small fountain and Tabaco both
Wednesday, May 29, 2019 at 9:30 AM
The guide will hold the sign of FEBS 2019 International Conference
3 hours
Guided walk through gardens and the fee
870,- CZK (35 €) Please note that exchange rates in € are only indicative, the tours will be billed via GoPay gate in Czech Crowns.
Malostranská metro station next to small fountain and Tabaco booth
Malostranská metro station as our meeting point is situated in left hand side riverbank as traffic part of the district Malá Strana, e.g. Lesser Town or Little Quarter. The nearest bridge is Mánesův most, the meeting point is also not too far from Charles Bridge. We will meet in a street level opposite to the entrance to the metro (underground, subway), Malostranská metro station is part of A (= green) line. The trams, which you can use to arrive here, are 2, 12, 15, 18, 20, 22 and 23. The guide will be standing just next to small fountain, but also the tobacco kiosk. The guide will hold FEBS 2019 International Conference sign.