This 3-hour Prague walking tour is your orientation into the key sites and dazzling architecture of a city at the center of European history for a thousand years. Our knowledgeable, expert historian guides share the secrets of major Prague landmarks including Charles Bridge, Old Town Square, Charles University, Wenceslas Square, Municipal House, House of the Black Madonna, and the Old-New Synagogue. You’ll discover the social and political complexities of the Czech capital, a city proud to have developed a vibrant and unique culture despite centuries of foreign domination.

Journey through the largest castle complex in the world on our insightful 3-hour Prague Castle walking tour. Explore grand halls and churches that have bestowed power and prestige on Bohemian kings, Roman emperors, First Czechoslovak Republic presidents, Nazi Reichsprotektors, and Communist Party leaders alike. Admire European architectural styles including Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, and even Modernist, while your expert historian guide explains the dramatic conflicts and shifting styles of ruling regimes dating back 1,100 years.

Explore some of the world’s best-preserved Jewish sites, including Europe’s oldest functioning synagogue and the Old Jewish Cemetery. In the company of a Jewish Studies Scholar, you’ll discover why prominent cities like Prague segregated their Jewish minorities behind ghetto walls for hundreds of years while relying on them for financial services barred to Christians. Throughout this Jewish Prague tour, you’ll enjoy stories of the unique culture and essential contributions of Czech Jews, even while you take in the enduring persecution and antisemitism they faced, tragically culminating in genocide and the Holocaust.

Explore the radical new design aesthetics that swept across Europe at the turn of the century, on this Art Nouveau and Cubist architecture tour of Prague. With your expert historian guide to lead the way, delve into the dramatic social and political changes that took place in the Czech capital over the 19th and 20th centuries – and discover the ways in which those changes manifested themselves in new design movements across the city. Art Nouveau was embraced by the nationalist cause, which also promoted the invention of Cubist and Rondocubist architecture (building styles unknown outside of the Czech Republic).

During your 3-hour Cold War Prague tour, our knowledgeable local historian helps you to grasp the daily struggles of Czechs under four decades of totalitarianism. Along the way, you visit sites that reveal the tensions of the Cold War, beginning with a sinister pedestrian tunnel lined with nuclear bunkers. Exploring the Vitkov Hill Monument, which showcased the mummified body of the first communist president, you’ll experience the heavy-handed communist-era propaganda forced upon an entire population. Enjoying panoramic views of Prague, we take in the futuristic 1980s Zizkov Tower, once believed to jam Radio Free Europe. Descending to the city center and Wenceslas Square, we trace the events of the Warsaw Pact Invasion that sent tanks into Prague in 1968 and the Velvet Revolution of 1989 when hundreds of thousands of Czechs brought down the Iron Curtain.

Take a bite out of Czech culture and history on this food tour of Prague. Your native guide (a passionate foodie and local historian) will take you on a culinary excursion showing you what to eat in Prague while revealing the cultural context behind every flavor, as well as sharing personal memories and anecdotes that surround different Czech dishes. Get a tasty and in-depth view of what it means to eat, drink and cook Czech, from family-table traditions to the newest innovations on the local culinary scene.

Enjoy a tasting tour of superb monastic-brewed lagers and ales along with delicious traditional Czech beer snacks at two of the oldest monasteries in Bohemia, the fountainhead of much of the world’s beer. Throughout this Prague beer tour, you also take in stunning examples of Czech Baroque architecture, including an intimate private journey behind-the-ropes into the breathtaking Baroque Strahov Monastery Library, which most travelers see only from the door. Your historian guide will help you to appreciate the 1000-year history of Czech beer brewing from monastic origins through modern-day microbreweries as you explore some of Prague’s most unforgettable Baroque environments and discover their histories.

Visitors to Prague almost never encounter the hidden gem of the walled-in Vrtba garden even though it provides a luminous glimpse into the life of nobility in the 18th century and the aesthetics of Baroque landscaping. When you climb to the top courtyard with its marine grotto, you are also rewarded with beautiful vistas of Prague’s cityscape and the Castle. Next, this Prague Gardens tour takes you to the Wallenstein Garden, with its albino peacocks, mannerist statues, mythical fountains and tragic family histories spanning over 400 years. We conclude with a thoughtful look at the storied Castle Gardens, the first garden to import the Italian Renaissance concepts of topiary and parterre garden beds north of the Alps because Emperor Ferdinand I fell in love with the style and wished to make a paradise as a love gift to his Empress. The last flourish is a rare trip through the latticework of quiet and precious baroque terraced gardens that lead down the hill from the Castle and which are also frequently missed by travelers.

You spend your 60-minute private drive to Terezín learning about the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia in March 1939 and the steady erosion of civil rights for Jews and other groups, until the transports that brought Jews to the overcrowded, unhygienic ghetto. Despite the extremely tough situation, Terezín is a place of spirit and endurance. You learn how the inmates organized health care, conducting secret educational activities and religious services. The Nazis decided to use Terezín for propaganda and tolerated cultural activity. This led to a camp life of grim paradoxes. Inmates (including many professional artists) famously improvised theatrical and musical performances, painted and drew copiously, wrote and even published magazines—all in the face of death and despair. With careful attention to detail and historical context, and sensitivity to the emotional experience of visitors, this Terezin tour will help you appreciate the stories of victims and survivors and to consider the forces of antisemitism and fascism that unleashed genocide in the 20th century.

Just one hour’s drive from Prague, this Kutna Hora day tour acquaints you with a charming medieval town inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage Fund, full of picturesque monuments and sites that take you back to another age. From the 1300s, the mines in Kutná Hora contributed an entire third of the European production of silver, spurring the economic dominance of the Bohemian Kingdom. The silver “Prague groschen” was a hard currency throughout Central Europe for several centuries. Naturally, the wealth of Kutná Hora prompted the town to express its importance by commissioning soaring medieval cathedrals, elegant town squares, and townhouses that we can still enjoy today. With your historian guide, you will also visit nearby Sedlec, to experience the uncanny and fantastic Baroque Bone Chapel or Ossuary decorated with the skeletons of 60,000 victims of the plagues and Hussite Wars.

Take a spectacular day trip from Prague on this Cesky Krumlov tour, passing through the beautiful Southern Bohemia countryside en route to a fabled town full of UNESCO World Heritage sites. With a winding river through its center, Cesky Krumlov offers a delightful array of Gothic, Renaissance, and Baroque houses, streets and charming squares, with its lofty Renaissance-era castle tower dominating the skyline. Your historian guide helps you explore these rare places while sharing stories of the town’s fabulous cast of characters, including the murderous, illegitimate son of Emperor Rudolph II and the famous expressionist artist, Egon Schiele, who scandalized locals with his unconventional art and lifestyle. On this private tour, we offer you several personal choices for your day. The Castle is a must. But it is up to you (and to the time of year) if we schedule visits at the best-preserved Baroque theater in Europe, the Castle interiors, the stunning Baroque Castle Gardens or devote an hour to perusing the Egon Schiele Museum (an unexpected gem of a collection for modern art lovers).

Customize your own trip to Prague and the Czech Republic. We love to create personalized experiences for travelers with special interests and needs. If you don’t see the options you want in our ready-to-book tours(opens in a new tab), here are a few ideas of how we can customize the perfect trip for you and your group. We can arrange your transportation, dining, entertainment as well as fun family tours that help kids explore Prague with games, interactive activities and scavenger hunts.