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This fable street is situated in to the areal of Prague Castle and is made up of a line of a tiny houses with coloured houses, which are built into the arches of the Castle wall between the New White Tower and the Tower called Daliborka. The Golden Lane dates into the 2nd half of the 16th century , when castle marksmen and gold-beaters settled here. Originally the Golden Lane was called Goldsmitht Lane after the latter. There are plenty of legents connected with the Golden Lane-the famous one explane the name of the Street by the alchemists employed at the court of Rudolph II., but frankly tehy have never lived there. In the 18th cent. And the 19th cent. The tiny housese were inhabited by the poor. The sorrounding of the Golden Lane has been ispiration for many writers and creative artists. In 1917 the writter Franz Kafka lived here-in the house no.22., the turn of the 1920s and 1930s the poet J. Seifert(bearer of the Nobel prize for literature), lived in the house between the Golden Lane and the Daliborka tower and it was exactly here that J.Seifert wrote his collection of poems „Eight Days“ and „Arrayed in Light“. In the middle of the 20th century the tiny houses of the Lane were repaired after the plans of P. Janák as a remarkable testimony of the life at Prague Castle. Their bright colouring was designed by J. Trnka . Today some of the houses served as bookshops, souvenirs or fashion jewellery. Also situated here is a cafe and snack bar.

The Daliborka Tower is situated in a near close of the Golden Lane of The Prague Castle.It's a part of the LAter Gothic fortifications of the Castle, built at the end of the 16th cent. The Daliborka Tower is one of the artillery towers , was built in the 1496 and was named after the first person to be imprisoned inside-Dalibor of Kozojedy. He was gaoled in 1498, having been accused of affording protection to rebelious serfs from the neighbouring estate. Later on he was executed. The composer Bedřich Smetane set the libretto written after the story of Dalibor to music of his opera "Dalibor". The another person imprisined in the Daliborka Tower, which we can mention, is for example Count Frant. Ant. Sporck, a publisher of liberal literature and founder of the hospital at Kuks. Nowadays the DAliborka Tower is open to the public.

The Cathedral of St. Vitus is the dominante of the Prague Castle and it's construction have taken almost seven centuries. Originaly it was a Romanesque Rotunda of St. Vitus, founded by prince Wenceslas about the year 926 as the court church of the royal Premyslid dynasty and as the cathedral church of prague bishops too. At the end of the 11th cent it was replaced with a triple naved basilica but the remainders of the Romanesque mansory of the rotunda and basilica are situated in the underground part of the present Cathedral and can be reached by means of the staircase from the Chapel of Holy Rood. The Gothic Cathedral was founded by Charles IV. in the connection of raising up of the Prague bishopic in to the archbishopic in 1344. The Cathedral building was designed by the French architect Mathias of Arras and after him the building works were continued by Peter PArler of Gmund in Swabia. The east part of the Cathedral was consecrated in 1385 and in 1392 the foundation stone was laid for the construction of the triple nave, which did not come about, however. The coming Hussite Revolution brought a halt to the building of the Cathedral and the finished part was closed by means of temporary wall. The construction of the whole Cathedral was completed as late as the period Romantism in the Late 19th cent among others by J. Kranner, J. Mocker and K. Hilbert. The completed Cathedral is 124m long, the width of the transverse nave is 60m and the height of the vault of the main nave is 34m. In the exterior of the Cathedral-on the fasade there are statues of Charles IV. and 14 Saints ad busts of the men who are responsible for its completion. On the central doors there are csulptured scenes from the history of the construction of the Cathedral. On the south side of the building there's the so-called "Golden Portal" , built by P. Parléř,a nd its fron wall is richly decorated with a big mozaic by North Italian artists with the motiph of the Last judgement with the figures ot the Czech patron saints, CHarlis IV. and his wife Eliška. The figural parts of the mozaic are coloured stones and teh background of the picture is of gilded glass cubes. Next to the east there is a covered passage connecting the Cathedral with the older part of thr Prague CAstel. Behind it stands a memorial of St. John Nepomuk by F. I. Platzer. By the eaves of the roofs of the CAthedral there are decorative sculptures in the form of gargoyles. When we enter the Cathedral we can see a plenty of tracery lattice windows by L.Kysela, M.Švabinský, M.Svolinský,F. Sequenc, S. Libenský and others. In the middle of the height of the Cathedral-above the pillared arcades there is a triphorium running round the whole Cathedral, in the inner parapet containing a gallery of portraits of members of the royal family and persons connected woth the construction of the Cathedral. The busts are works of Parléřs workshop. In front of the hight Neo-Gothic altar there's the Royal Tomb of white marble surrounded by a Renaissance grille. Below the Tombstone there'sthe Royal Crypt, axcessible from the Chapel of the Holy Rood. It contains the sarcophagi of Charles IV. and his consorts, Wenceslav IV., Ladislav Pohrobek, George of Poděbrady, Rudolph II. and the members of Premyslid dynasty. In the south part of the transverse nave we can find the Chapel of St. Wencesles, built above tthe saint's tomb by P. Parléř. On its waals there are works of members of Master Theodoric's circle and are combined with areas set with semi-precious stones in gilded hall-marking. The upper part of the walls are covered with the paintings of the scenes from the live of St. Wenceskas by the Master of Litoměřice Altar of the early 16th cent. In the Center stands a statue of St. Wenceslas and his tombstone is situated in the Chapel as well. The Chapel also afford the acces to the staircase leading to the coronation chamber , where the Czech coronation jewels are housed. On the parephet of the Cathedral-between the pillars-there is a large relief depicted the devastation of the Cathedral in 1619.Below the floor of the parapet are tombstones of 14 Prague bishops of the 11th-14th cent. and in the south part of the parapet we can see a silver tombstone of St. John of Nepomuk designed by J.E. Fisher of Erlach and surrounded by balustrade of red marble bearing statues of justice, Strength, Wisdom and reticence and roofed by the baldachin with the figures of angels. Against the tombstone with parapet there's the so-named Royal Oratory. On the sides of the whole Cathedral there are a lot of chapels-we can name for example: The Chapel of St. Ludmila, The Chapel of Gods tomb and others.... In the main Tower of the Cathedral of St. Vitus there's also the bigges Bohemian bell called Sigismund. The Cathedral is open to the public and is a popular target of the tourists.

The New world indicate the guarter of Hradčany, which originated in 16th cent on a path running from Prague and it ecguired its definite likeness during the building of Capuchin monastery. The fasades of the houses of the New World are mostly teh results of the various architectonic modifications carried out in the 18th and 19th century. The whole of this part of Hradčany is very picturesque. Maybe the most interesting houses of the streets of the New World are these: At the Golden Pear with a stucco fasade where the stylish vine tavern was housed in, At the Blue Cluster with an Early Baroque fasade, At the Golden Fairy Bird with a memorial tabket reclaiming that the Garman astronomer Johann Kepler stayed here about 1600, At the Golden Plough with a memorial tablet of the Czech violinist Fr. Ondříček... In the part of the New World we can also find a little street called Černínská, where on the wall of its house is a statue of St. John of Noepomuk from the 18th cent.The New World is very popular place of tourist walks.

Pohořelec was found as a part of the quarter Hradčany in 1375 by the deputy burgrave Aleš of Malkovice. During the battles of the Hussites against the troops of the King Sigismund in 1420 its buildings were destroyed by a fire. The suburb was against destroyed during the another great fire which occured at Hradčany and the Lesser Town in 1541 and yet again during the attacks of the French armies in the half of the 18th cent.

Going through the one of the Gardens of Prague Castle is possible to get from Hradčany sguare to the Second Courtyard. The name of the garden was derived from a filled-in bastion dating from the time of the reign of the last Premyslids and the bastion served as a part of a Prague Castle's protection. During the Theresian reconstructions it was levelled with a ground and a Roccoco portico affording access to the Spanish Hall was built here after a plan by N. Pacassi. A park was laid out after 1861 and the present appearance of the park, designed by J.Plečnik, dates from 1930 from the same times dates also the columned pavilon restaurant.

This garden is situated on the west part of the southern slope of Prague castle on the site of original castle fortification. The present layout of the garden is work of J. Plečnik. Acces to it is gained from the ramp on Hradčany sguare through a portal and an open Sala terren, both built and designed by J, Plečnik on the site of previous gate also followed by a monumental flight of steps designed by the same architect in the 30's of 20th cent. Standing in the centre of the Garden of Paradise is a large decorative bowl of granite also by J.Plečnik,a nd behind it stands a bBAroque fountain. Standing in the south-east cornerof the Garden there's the Matthias Arbour built in 1617 for the Emperor Matthias. Its interior has a wooden Renaissance ceilling decorated with the emblems of 39 countries of Matthia's empire. Below the Arbour is Plečnik's observation terrace on whose balustrade is a statue of The Good Sheperd. From the Matthias Arbour the Garden On the Ramparts continues in easterly direction.

This Garden links up with the Garden of Paradise is also accessible from the starces designed by J. Plečnik leading from the Third Castle Courtyard.Tn the middle of the 19th cent a walll with battlement was built on the ramparts af the original castle fortification and in the second half of the 19th cent. the inner space of the ramparts was filled in and laid out as a park . Its present appearance was designed by J. Plečnik. Beyond the Matthias Arbour there is a Plečnik's columned observation arbour, then there's the medieval castle bastion on which Plečnik founded an observation terrace decorated with an obelisk, inside there is a winter garden. Below the so-called Ludwigˇs Wing of the Old Royal Palace era two obelisks on the place where the two imperial governors thrown out from the castle by Prague's defenestration in 1618 fellt. Situated ti the so-called Theresian tract with a circular staircase by O.Rothmayer is a voliére built by the remainders of the Pramyslid bastion and standing nearby is an Empire watch-house. Further on, below the former Rožmberks palace, stands the observation hall called Bellevue, designed by J. Plečnik. Oppossite is a new fountain with an Early Baroque sculpture of Hercules of the 17th cent, transfered here from the fountain on the first Courtyard. At the east end of the garden stands so-called Moravian Bastion on which Plečnik built a monolit with a lonic capital and a gilged sphere. Remarkable among trees in the garden is a Palownia imperalis, a species with decorative leaves and flowers whose have their origin in China and Japan.