Prague – Vyšehrad

19.11.2011 Czechia Amazing place of Czechia

Prague, and of course not only Prague, has many interesting, unusual and beautiful places. One of them is, for example, Vyšehrad.
Vyšehrad is a historical fortification on a rock above the right bank of the Vltava River and also a district of the same name in the south of the administrative district and city district of Prague 2. Vyšehrad was established as a princely fortress in the second half of the 10th century. At the end of the 11th century, the first Czech king Vratislav I resided here. Later, it became primarily a fortress guarding Prague from the south, extensively rebuilt in the Baroque style in the second half of the 17th century. Gradually, the cemetery at the church of St. Peter and Paul to the national burial ground of important and deserving Czech personalities, at the head of which the Slavín tomb was built. Since 1962, the landscaped Vyšehrad complex has been a national cultural monument.