Petřín

This guide to Petřín in Prague follows the Hunger Wall, the fourteenth-century rampart built for Charles the Fourth that climbs this wooded hill. It traces the medieval rumor that the emperor himself piled stones beside beggars and day laborers, and the brutal famine of 1361 that first gave the wall its name. Run your hand along the marl blocks rising beside you, still standing four meters high in places.