Half-day tour of Vysehrad, Orechovka and Petrin with the car support
Our driver will take us to Vysehrad, where there used to stand the second castle in Prague, which was destroyed during the Hussite wars. Today there is an impressive Neo-Gothic church and nearby the famous Slavin, where the composer Antonin Dvorak and other famous Czechs are buried. After a tour of Vysehrad we will go to see the cubist villas under Vysehrad. We will then continue to the Orechovka district. There we will have a look at the Villa Mueller; It is the most famous villa from the time of Masaryk's first republic. The villa was built for the Czech construction entrepreneur Dr. Frantisek Mueller, the co-owner of the major Czech building company Kapsa & Mueller. Dr.Mueller entrusted the design of the villa, with its major representative function, to the architect Adolf Loos, his frequent co-worker and personal friend. It was here where Adolf Loos was able to embody the ideas of his Raumplan – cube space. We will then take a funicular up Petrin hill and climb up to the Petrin Tower, to see the city from a bird's eye view. At the end we will visit the Prague Loreto church with its famous treasury.
General informations
The tour takes about 4 hours.
Notes
I have to mention that the Villa Mueller is very popular and the institution organizes guided tours. It is open only 4 days in a week. The tours are generally small - maximum 15 people. I will have to book the tour for you in advance. My personal opinion is that it is really something special. The Prague Loreto is closed on Mondays. It is possible to prolong the tour and see other interesting sites of so called Great Prague, such as the district of Vinohrady (the Royal Vineyards) with the Zizkov TV Tower, the Church of the Most Sacred Heart of Our Lord, which was build by Josip Plecnik etc.