Riegrovy Sady
Hilltop gardens with a beer garden, castle views and a statue once stripped of its name.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Riegrovy Sady in Prague uncovers why, for four years during the Nazi occupation, the hilltop park officially didn't exist under its own name, rebranded after a safely dead composer instead. It traces the life of František Ladislav Rieger, the nineteenth-century Czech statesman honored by the bronze statue that never moved, and sculptor Josef Václav Myslbek, who cast it in 1913. Listen for the gardens' vineyard-turned-parkland design from the early 1900s, and the view toward Prague Castle from the crest.
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