Prague Ghost Tour – Alchemy and Mysteries

Overview

This is a comprehensive tour covering all major sights in Prague. Your guide will take you first through the Old Town, then across the river to the area called Hradčany with Strahov Monastery, Loreto and New World. You will enter Prague Castle complex and see Golden Lane. This tour focusses more on the historical facts, but you’ll also hear some of the legends associated with these places. The tour walks through the courtyards and does not enter buildings.

As night falls and the crowds thin, we’ll take you from the Old Town Square, across the river Vltava, to see the palaces, monasteries and monuments of Prague Castle. This tour gives you a unique view of this famous site when the crowds are gone and the tours depart, we will introduce you to some of the darker parts of the Castle’s history.

We will walk through the lanes and courtyards where alchemists and astrologers once worked, visit the monastery, hear about the “Devil’s Bible”, and stop for a while by “Hole to Hell”. Your guide will lead you through the city’s dark and often esoteric history, from “Good King” Wenceslas to Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV and on to the golden age of Prague during the rule of Emperor Rudolf II. As well as some stunning views of Prague by night, you’ll also have the chance to see the Golden Lane, once the home of Franz Kafka. This tour also includes a short tram ride (ticket is included in the tour price).