Prague Parks

During summertime, the parks are the reason to be here. This may sound like a big claim, considering all the great things Prague has to offer, but if you just visit a few of them you may come away with a very different sense of the city than that which you get in the middle of Wenceslas Square smelling fried grease in the air. We're going to take a whirlwind tour of the most popular parks in the city, beginning with Kampa, to give you a brief overview of what's out there. KAMPA Kampa island (Ostrov Kampa) snuggles against the Malá Strana coast. (We could be convinced that it's actually a chunk of riverbank with a canal cut around it, rather than a proper island, but leave that to semantics.) Here's the canal: Walk its length to get some amazing pictures of the old waterwheels once used to power mills in this area. Kampa park... [read full story]