Even on a tight schedule, Wallenstein Garden earns the hours.
Allow 30–60 min.
A genuinely surprising, free oasis steps from the castle hill — formal parterres, roaming peacocks, an eerie stalactite grotto wall and bronze statuary, all hushed. The catch: it's seasonal and keeps government hours, the bronzes are replicas (originals were looted to Sweden), and it's tucked behind an easily-missed gate. One of the best free things in Prague.
Laid out in the 1620s for Albrecht von Wallenstein; the palace now houses the Czech Senate. Features a dripstone grotto wall and free-roaming peacocks. · model-knowledge
The garden's bronze statues are copies; Swedish troops looted the originals in 1648. · model-knowledge