Small-Group Half-Day Cold War Walking Tour in Prague

Small-Group Half-Day Cold War Walking Tour in Prague

Explore the National Memorial which includes the the Hall of the Red Army in a 3-hour walking tour in Prague and also visit the mausoleum that displayed the mummy of Klement Gottwald, first chairman of the KSC, the adjoining laboratory and temperature control center, and numerous sites that show the life of Prague under totalitarianism.

Itinerary
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Stop At: Pedestrian Tunnel Karlin-Zhizhkov, Prague Czech Republic

Walk through the pedestrian tunnel and observe the locked doors leading to the nuclear bomb-shelter corridors build in the Cold War era and still maintained.

Duration: 10 minutes

Stop At: National Monument at Vitkov, U pamatniku 1900, Prague 130 00 Czech Republic

National Monument commemorating the Czech and Slovak warriors of WWI.

Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Zizkov Televison Tower, Mahlerovy sady 1, Prague 130 00 Czech Republic

Best view of the Brutalist style Zizkov Television Tower.

Duration: 5 minutes

Stop At: Vaclavske namEsti, Vaclavske namesti, Prague 110 00 Czech Republic

Walk through and consider the history of the square from its founding in the 14th century through it's tumultuous history of military parades of occupying powers to the tragic events of Prague Spring to the ecstatic gathering of the Velvet Revolution.

Duration: 20 minutes

Stop At: Upside-Down Statue of King Wenceslas Riding a Dead Horse, Vodickova 704/36 Lucerna Palace Gallery - Palác Lucerna, Prague 11602 Czech Republic

Admire the ironic sculpture of King Wenceslas and consider it's relevance to contemporary Central European political atmosphere.

Duration: 5 minutes