Prague, Petřín Hill, A stunning view, Mirror Maze, Eiffel Tower, observatory 4K HDR ASMR

In this video, we will walk around Petřín hill, a beautiful park in Prague! I'll show you the next best viewpoint in Prague.

1. Petřín is a hill in the center of Prague, Czech Republic. It rises 327 m above sea level and some 130 m above the left bank of the Vltava River. The hill, almost entirely covered with parks, is a favorite recreational area for the inhabitants of Prague. The hill (in German known as Laurenziberg) is featured prominently in Franz Kafka's early short story "Description of a Struggle" and briefly in Milan Kundera's novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

The start of waking was here:
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The chronicler Cosmas describes Petřín as a very rocky place, the hill is allegedly called Petřín because of the large number of rocks (Latin: petra). Since ancient times, stones were dug and were used to construct buildings in Prague. The medieval defense wall, the Hunger Wall, was built on Petřín Hill during 1360 - 1362, by order of Czech King Charles IV. The Petřín Lookout Tower, which strongly resembles the Eiffel Tower, was built atop a hill in 1891. Other sights include the Rose Garden, Mirror Maze, Cathedral of Saint Lawrence, and St. Michael Church.

The hill's summit is linked to Prague's Malá Strana district by the Petřín funicular, first operated in 1891.

2. The Mirror Maze was built according to architect Wiehl as a pavilion of the Czech Tourists Club at the Prague Jubilee exhibition in 1891. It was built by Prague carpenter and builder Matěj Bílek. The Maze was initially located near the corner of the Industrial Palace but was transferred to Petřín two years later. It is an imitation of the Gothic gate at Vyšehrad named Peak (Špička), built in the 14th century by Charles IV and topped by nine spires. Initially, there was a round panorama in the front rooms with twenty peepholes showing approx. 100 changing stereoscopic slides with interesting Bohemian localities. Further on, there was an exhibition of the club's touristic and publication activities, and an exhibition of touristic products manufactured by Bohemian companies. And then there was the area with a diorama. It is a massive painting with a plastic front, depicting the fight of Prague citizens with Swedes on the Charles Bridge in 1648; more specifically, the defense of the Old Town bridge tower by a Jesuit named Plachý. The painting spreads on 80 square meters, and it is a joint work of two brothers, Adolf and Karel Liebscher, who created the image with the assistance of Vojtěch Bartoněk and Karel Štapfer. Karel made the landscape and architectural parts, while Adolf is the author of the impressive plot; they painted the whole thing in 50 days. It is interesting to see what the left bank of Vltava looked like in the mid-17th century. The pavilion was very popular, so the Czech Tourists Club even profited from its operation at the exhibition.

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3. The Petřín Lookout Tower (Petřínská rozhledna) is a steel-framework tower 63.5 meters (208 ft) tall on Petřín Hill in Prague, built-in 1891. It resembled the Eiffel Tower and was used as an observation tower and a transmission tower. Today the tower is a significant tourist attraction.

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4. Štefánik's Observatory is an astronomical observatory on Petřín hill in the center of Prague founded in 1928 and named after Slovak astronomer Milan Rastislav Štefánik. The Observatory specializes in the popularization of astronomy and related natural sciences.

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Perception Philosophy
19 December 2021
Czechia