HRADČANY A NOVÝ SVĚT

Once upon a time, poor and small craftsmen lived here. Despite being destroyed many times, always like a phoenix from the ashes, it was rebuilt. Various artists and outcasts of the previous regime have been moving into the small, damp house since the 1960s, who live here in very modest conditions, sharing a common toilet, heating with coal in winter, for which they are rewarded with an almost idyllic, rural environment in the center of the city, far from the prying eyes of uninvited visitors. What will you learn on this walk?

Is there still a house where famous astronomers lived?

Which house did the painter Mikuláš Aleš live in?

Which famous chimney family lived in a baroque palace?

Where was the chapel of St. Matouš?

Who did Jan Švankmajer exchange his house with?

What did Arnošt Lustig always have on his bedside table?

Who visited famous writers in the famous log cabin?

Which painter did Mr. Nálepa send a basket of fresh crayfish to?

Which traitor showed the Swedes the hole in the Hradčany fortifications?

Where did the heinous crime that outraged the whole of Prague take place?

Which composition did Bohumil Hrabal claim was an opus for infinity?

You will learn this and much more on this tour.