Contemporary Prague Free Tour

In this Contemporary Prague Free Tour we will learn shocking details of the Nazi Occupation period (1938-1945), and the totalitarian communist regime (1948-1989). Commercial passages, squares, art and avant-garde are also part of this Free Tour, which will take you to see interesting and beautiful monuments, a reflection of aesthetic expressions of times that lived and still live in this fascinating city.

Among the most outstanding monuments of our tour are the Dancing house, the rotating head of Kafka and the church of Saint Cyril and Saint Methodius directly related to the anthropoid operation, the Czech resistance hid in this church the soldiers who made the attack on Reinhard Heydrich. The largest representative of the Nazis in Bohemia and Moravia. And one of the closest people to Hitler.

We will also go from the modernist architecture of Prague in the Lucerna gallery, where David Cerny's famous hanging horse is located, to buildings of Soviet brutalism such as the Nova Scena or the National Bank.

The most important events in the recent history of Prague, such as speeches, demonstrations or even battles have taken place in the new city of Prague.

The New Town (Nové Město) founded by Charles IV in 1348 is part of the historical center of Prague. It is the nerve center of the city and has witnessed the eventful recent history of the Czech country.