Private Cold War Years Walking Tour in Prague

Explore the National Memorial which includes the Hall of the Red Army and 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 on this private 3-hour walking tour in Prague with an historian guide.

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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 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 Praha 3, Prague 130 00 Czech Republic

National Monument commemorating the Czech and Slovak warriors of WWI. The Hall of the Soviet Soldier. The former mausoleum of the General Secretary and the Chairman of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, Klement Gottwald.
The monument to Jan Zizka -- the third largest bronze equestrian statue in the world.

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