Prague´s skylines and views

Prague´s city center skyline is dominated by the cathedrals: St Vitus, Tyn and St Nicholas. But there are many other towers, most of them churches on the skyline. Prague is actually nicknamed "city of 100 spires", which tells a lot about the city's medieval skyline. In the outskirts, ugly concrete highrises with up to 20 floors are everywhere, but there are very few skyskrapers in Prague. The tallest buildings are situated in the southern outskirts, far from the center. The TV tower is by far the tallest structure in Prague and can be seen from the whole city. The TV tower is also a good spot to get up if you want to see the city from above. There is also Petrín Tower, an immiation of the Eiffel Tower, but there you have to climb up sine there is no elevator.

One of the most famous views of Prague - the district Prazsky Hrad a Hradcany (the Prague Castle and Hradcany), dominated by St Vitus Cathedral above River Vltava.

Prague´s highrise skyline from the left, as seen from Mala Strana: Corinthia Towers Hotel, Empire, Corinthia Panorama Hotel and the abandoned City Tower. Below them are the "new town" and a street light!

A closer look to Prague's 2 tallest buildings from a rock in Vysehrad: City Tower (ECM Tower, right), 109m and 27 floors reached its full height in 1986 as the country's tallest building. It was meant to host the Czech radio, but was left incomplete and unoccupied. ECM is about to rebuild it as a mixed use complex. The building will also get a nice new glass façade. Empiria (left) from 1977, is currently the tallest used building in Czech Republic at 104m and 24 floors.

An interesting mix of old and new towers of Prague, seen from Hradcany.

View from Karlov Most (Charles Bridge) towards the castle.

View towards Salvátor Church and the gate on the east side of Vltava, belonging to the popular and hilly district Malá Strana.

Hradcany a Prazsky Hrad at sunset.

View towards S:t Nicholas Church and S:t Thomas Church with Petrín Park above.

View from close to the Swedish embassy at Mala Strana towards S:t Nicholas Church (left) and the TV Tower (right).

Petrín Tower, Prague´s own imitation of the Eiffel Tower has no elevators. It is only 60m high, but is situated on the top of the 300m Petrín Hill.

Petrín Hill with the funiculare and Petrín Tower that we climbed to the right.

The views from Petrín Tower:

Petrín Hill, old town and TV tower.

The nearby Strahovský kláster.

Prague Castle and S:t Vitus.

Skyscrapers in the southeast.

Old Town with to the east with Týn, Vltava and Charles Bridge.

Hotel Opatov, the hotel we stay at in the middle of the far eastern commie block district! The church to the left is probably Ludmila.

Commie blocks close to the tower with a background of beautiful villas and mountains.

Strahovsky Stadion. A football stadium.

The wall right below the tower.

Petrín Park.

TV Tower and the much lower radio tower in the distance.

Views just outside the gate at Hradcany:

Prague skyline with the national theatre to the left of the bridge.

TV Tower at Zizkov and Týn Church in Staré Mesto in the middle. Old town hall to the right.

The churches S:t Thomas and S:t Nicholas in Malá Strana.

Our last picture from Prague: For the first time crossing the bridge to the north side of Vltava (Moldau). Goodbye Prague! Hope I'll see you again soon!

Views from just outside the entrance of the Corinthia Towers Hotel in Vysehrad where nice views:

Vysehrad and TV Tower in Zizkov.

The mirror of Prague´s skyline in the hotel´s facade.

Highrises in the distance.

This highway goes high above the city on the high bridge Nuselsky most. The first night when we arrived I saw small old houses at Vysehrad below the road.

Praha TV Tower (televizni vez Zizkov). At a height of 216m, it is Czech's by far tallest structure.

The views from the observation deck on the top of the TV tower:

It had became cloudy just in time to when we reached the tower. After all, this was also almost the only time it was cloudy on our trip. After all the windows where dirty and it was starting to get dark too, so nevermind…

After watching the views, we went down on the bar in the lower section (8th floor I think) and had a bear in the bar with a view. It was as cheap as all other bars in Prague despite being in a tall TV tower with a view. Meanwhile we where sitting there it was getting dark. So we went back up again by the fast elevator to see how Prague's skyline looked after dark:

View towards the tallest buildings.

The view from the furniture department on the department store Billa Labut´s top floor.

I took this picture of this commie block district in southeast Prague from the 19th floor of Hotel Opatov. In the far distance you can see the TV tower, Czech Republic's tallest structure.