The Čertovka is a seven hundred and forty meter canal separating the district of Malá Strana from the artificial island of Kampa. This narrow waterway, often called the Venice of Prague, was created in the twelfth century by the Knights…
Vltava River Islands Walk
Escape the crowds and see Prague from a fresh, breezy perspective along the quiet green oases of the Vltava River.
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1. Čertovka
2. Lennon Wall
The Lennon Wall is a stretch of masonry covered in dense, shifting layers of spray paint, marker, and stickers. It stands in Velkopřevorské náměstí, a small square in the Malá Strana district, opposite the French Embassy. The wall belongs…
3. Velkopřevorský Mlýn
Velkopřevorský Mlýn is identifiable by the large, wooden waterwheel that turns beside a narrow channel of the Vltava River, known as the Čertovka. This site sits at the edge of Kampa Island, tucked away near the Lesser Town. Originally…
4. Museum Kampa
Museum Kampa occupies the former Sova’s Mills, a set of historic buildings recognizable by the glass cube perched atop the staircase tower. These structures have a history dating back to at least thirteen ninety-three, when they first…
5. Babies
Three giant bronze toddlers rest in the grass beside the Kampa Museum, characterized by the barcode-like indentations where their faces should be. Each of these figures weighs eight hundred kilograms and originated as a creation of the…
6. Střelecký Island
Střelecký Island sits in the middle of the Vltava River, characterized by its long, green expanse connected to the banks by the central Legion Bridge. First recorded in the twelfth century as a garden called Trávník, or the Lawn, the…
7. Slovanský ostrov
Slovanský ostrov is a river island in the Vltava that stands out for the neo-Renaissance Žofín Palace sitting at its center. Formed by river sediment in the seventeenth century and reinforced with stone after the eighteen-century floods,…
8. Žofín Palace
Žofín Palace is a Neo-Renaissance building situated on the garden-lined banks of Slovanský ostrov, an island in the Vltava River. Named for Archduchess Sophie of Bavaria, the mother of Emperor Franz Joseph the First, the palace was…
9. Šítkovská vodárenská věž
The Šítkovská water tower rises forty-seven meters above the Vltava River, marked by a distinct lean that shifts it over one meter off its vertical axis. Built between fifteen eighty-eight and fifteen ninety-one under the direction of…