Prague Castle

We arrived in time for supper yesterday. We are here a few days before our tour starts to see some of Prague on our own.

We start by walking over to the Prague Castle complex.

You can get a convertible tour of the Old Town.

We walked by the Astronomical Clock and it wasn’t the top of the hour when there is a crowd.

We crossed over the river on the Charles Bridge. There was a group playing jazz.

The Prague Castle is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Our tour will visit the castle, but there is a lot to see and the tour won’t actually go into all the buildings.

We start with the Old Royal Palace.

In the room that holds the old land records, there are the old family crests.

We went out and caught the changing of the guard at the castle entrance.

The St. Vitus Cathedral dominates the castle courtyard. It fills so much of it, that it’s difficult to get far enough away to get a good photo.

St. George’s Basilica is older and much simpler inside.

The royal goldsmiths were able to get houses just inside the castle walls on Golden Lane to protect the gold they had.

The homes are small and you do what you need to do to have more space, like these stairs that fold up.

We walked back to the hotel passing by the Vltava River.