Praha – Vyšehrad

Vyšehrad, thought to be the original location of a castle belonging to historic princes of Prague, the Přemyslid dynasty

The Leopold Gate, built in 1670.

rotunda sv. Martina, Rotunda of St. Martin, Romanesque Church built at the end of the 11th Century and restored in 1719 and 1848.

The ruin of Libuše's Baths





Views from the heights overlooking the Vltava River:












View of the Vltava, looking north to Prague Castle, over the bridges.



bazilika sv. Petra a Pavla, the Church of Saints Peter and Paul, founded in the late 11th Century. The original church burnt down and was replaced by another structure in the mid 13th Century. The current building dates from the late 19th Century.







Vyšehrad cemetery, dating from 1869, is the burial place for a large number of famous Czechs, including Antonín Dvořák.



List and grave location guide for the famous Czechs buried here

Dvořákovy hrobky na Vyšehradě, Antonín Dvořák's grave

Antonín Dvořák

Bedřich Smetana's grave

Božena Němcová's grave, author of "The Grandmother"

One of the Trnka family grave sites - no known relatives



Another Trnka family grave site - no known relatives





Jiří Trnka, výtvarník = artist, but not the puppeteer whose dates were 1912-1969

An elderly and infirm woman who had been watering and tending a family grave site and is now returning home.