Prague Bike Tour | 7 Hours on the Bike 🇨🇿

One of the great tours you can take while in Prague is Praha on Bike tour. This is where a professional guide takes a group of people (everyone is on bikes) all around the city in this seven-hour (!) tour. I absolutely loved it. Learned tons of information about Prague as well as enjoyed biking the streets and the parks of the city. I definitely recommend it to anyone who loves biking. There were a lot of stops, so don’t let the length of the tour scare you (they also offer shorter tours – a couple of hours long). We also had a very nice lunch in-between. Special thanks to George who was our tour guide that day!

I’ve been in Prague for a few days now 
and I did most of the touristy stuff, so I was looking for something new, something 
that is not typical when you explore a new city and that’s when I came across this tour. 
It’s called guided bike tour of Prague. One thing I like about this tour is that it’s not, you know, a two or three-hour tour, it’s a seven- hour tour, so pretty much the entire day we’ll 
be biking across the city and another thing I like about this is that I’m gonna be sharing this with you guys. So if you’re ready, let’s go. …on the big tour of Prague. My name is Yirka 
or George in English, whatever it’s easier for you. We’re gonna enjoy all-day tour. We finish 
usually about at 7, at 5 sorry, at 17, at five. And so now the first part of the big tour goes 
along the river to the nice viewpoints, then to the Prague castle and then we return back here. We will have a traditional Czech lunch and on the second part of the tour we will go through the historic 
city center. That will be the Old Town, New Town and Little Quarter. Here is the turning gear, so the way to you is easier, going up the hill, from you more difficult, going down the hill. Sometimes we are on a regular road, so be in a single file one by one so the cars can pass around, sometimes we will 
be on a nice biking path where it will be safer. Can you see on the tower like something attached? Now it’s against the sun so it’s not very well visible but you can see like black 
dots and those are the statues of babies made by our contemporary art sculptor whose name is David Cherny and these babies he explained and he put ten of the babies on the TV tower 
crawling up the TV tower and he wants to say that nowadays are the children mostly raised by TV and computer, more than by the parents, so when you see them closer they don’t have a face, they have just a bar code because they just become numbers. This place where is now the Metronome was in the 50s and beginning of 60s the largest statue of Stalin in the world. It was all over this place 
and it was 16 meters high and 20 meters long. Stalin was standing the first and there 
were four people behind him on each side, those were the communist workers. Because 
after World War II the country was liberated or part of the country was liberated by the Soviet 
army coming from the East and this is how we got under the influence of Soviet Union for the 
next 40 years to the velvet revolution in 1989. So the statue was even made two years after 
his death in 1955 and it was here only seven years because after Stalin came another Soviet leader 
whose name was Nikita Khrushchev who started to criticize Stalin that he was a big dictator,
the cult of personality and he sent many people to concentration camps called Gulags where they died and so the city decided to destroy the statue. So it was built a fence around and it was blown 
off by the dynamite, all destroyed, nobody could see, nobody could take a picture or take a souvenir, in 1962. So the statue was made by the communists and destroyed by the communists. After the 
the statue the city didn’t know what to do with this area. One of the ideas were to make the aquariums from the rooms below but it was quite expensive so here was in 1990 erected the Metronome 
and it means that time is passing. Right or left, what is best, East or West, what is 
best, or yin/yang, good/bad, sometimes good, sometimes bad. … summer palace of Queen Anne which is the first Renaissance building in Prague from middle of 16th century. So around 1550 is 
Renaissance coming to Bohemian Kingdom and nobody knew how to build in a 
Renaissance so from Italy was invited Italian architect who built it 
according to Italian architecture. And in the middle is the flag of the President 
so when the flag is there so it means that the President is presented in the country. He doesn’t 
have to be exactly in the city, just in the country. … and this one is the 
was the most important entrance and here also started the coronation procession 
of the kings, so when the kings were coronated up on the Prague Castle in the Cathedral of 
Saint Vitus where we were in the morning the coronation procession entered the city 
through the main entrance through the Powder Gate followed over the Old Town Square around the 
astronomical clock across the river over the Charles Bridge and through Little Quarter up on 
the Prague Castle where was the coronation. Later here was stored the gun powder and that’s 
why it’s called the Powder Gate or Powder Tower. At the time it was quite shocking 
because there are historic houses around and suddenly such a modern building but nowadays it’s a symbol of Prague and many tourists come to see it because Frank Gehry is really great architect. The nickname is Fred and Ginger after famous American dancing couple Fred 
Astaire and Ginger Rogers and if you have a good imagination you can see that the glass 
building on the left is a lady in a long dress, the man is on the right side. They are holding each other dancing but you must have a good imagination. Now we are in by the John Lennon wall when in 1980 was John Lennon assassinated in New York, from this place became his symbolic grave. He was never in Prague but the Czech people loved him. He was a symbol for fight for peace against the war and 
because we still didn’t have the liberty until the velvet revolution in 89 it was also a place where 
you could express some ideas against the communist regime and it was allowed because the wall doesn’t belong to Czechoslovakia. Behind the wall is the embassy of Malta so the Maltese were tolerating it and the communists couldn’t do anything against it. You make the picture from the other side. Nowadays the oldest church here 
is the Virgin Mary church from gothic times and interesting is that inside 
is buried famous Danish astronomer Tiho Brahe. Tiho Braher was working in Prague together with Kepler and here in Prague they found out that in the middle of the solar system is the Sun and not the Earth 
as everybody thought before, so it started in Prague and later Copernicus developed this idea. But the most important is the old town townhall with the famous astronomical clock. So I really recommend to see it every hour from nine in the morning till 11 at night. Every hour starts a great show with a skeleton ringing a bell and shaking an hourglass as a symbol of mortality, then opens the door and 12 apostles are marching around in circles and it all finished with singing of a golden rooster, 
then start striking the bell, and at that time 600 years ago, imagine, it was so unique, so 
beautiful and the city council liked it so much that they made the maker blind not to make any 
other more beautiful astronomical clocks outside Prague, so we have the best one but with a sad 
legend. Hello, welcome to Praha Bike. This is our shop where you can rent a bike or go to a 
guided tour. We will show you the whole city and you can enjoy. We have great guides and 
I hope you will have a great time, thank you.