The most visited places in Prague and the region: The capital attracts, interest in castles has decreased
Within the evaluation of 14 thematic categories, it is the most prominent nationwide prevailed imaginary firsts in attendance are the Municipal House in the Old Town in Prague (architecture), the ossuary in Kutná Hora-Sedlce (reverential places), the landmark of Prague’s Petřín (towers and observation towers), but also the Military Technical Museum in Lešany u Týnec nad Sázavou (military tourist destinations ). Of the museum exhibits, the biggest attractions are the National Museum complex, the National Agricultural Museum, the National Gallery, all in the capital – and the Czech Silver Museum Kutná Hora. Linda Dlouhá from the Central Bohemian Tourism Office also ensured that the Kačina Castle with the Museum of the Bohemian Countryside also scored points in the Kutnohorsk Region. “In 2021, 82 percent more visitors visited than in 2020,” she recalled.
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As Dlouhá notes, the aforementioned Aquapalace Prague (in 5th place), the Mirakulum amusement park in Milovice (15th) and the Průhonice arboretum (49th place) were among the fifty most visited destinations in Central Bohemia. The aforementioned 618,000 visitors to water fun last year were 15 percent more than the rest of the world. They welcomed 282.5 thousand people to Mirakul last year, which represented a 47 percent increase. Průhonicky Park was visited by 132.6 thousand people: hidden by 17 percent more.
From the sub-category Dlouhá na ecclesiastical monuments, where in the top ten Central Bohemia took half of the bars. “The third most visited sacral monument is the church of St. Barbory in Kutná Hora (124.6 thousand visitors), the fourth place of pilgrimage Svatá Hora in Příbram (96.9 thousand), the fifth Cathedral of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Kutná Hora-Sedlec (75.2), the seventh Kutná Hora Chapel of the Body of God ( 64, 9), the eighth church of St. John the Baptist in Svaté Jan pod Skalou (60.4), she stated. Even with the notice of the Kutnohorsk Ossuary as the most visited destination among places of worship and the second place in the Museums and Galleries category belonging to the nearby Kačina Castle with the Museum of the Bohemian Countryside.
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“Central Bohemia also occupied three positions in the Personalities category. The top 10 was reached in third place by the Monument to King George of Poděbrady in Poděbrady (8.7 thousand), in fourth place by the Memorial to Josef Lady and his daughter Alena in Hrusice (8.2) and in ninth place by the Monument to Karel Čapek in Stará Huta u Dobríše (6.2), Dlouhá summed up.
It’s not just thousands of people
If in the past Karlštejn Castle used to be one of the most visited monuments not only in Central Bohemia, last year it ranked tenth with 122.5 thousand visitors; in addition to its attendance dropped by 13 percent. The castle is undergoing extensive reconstruction. Karolína Kratochvílová from the Central Bohemian Tourist Office further in the category of Military destinations, in the lowlands, 69.7 thousand visitors last year brought first place to the Military Technical Museum of Lešany. “The Vojna Lešetice War Memorial – a museum of the victims of communism and the history of uranium mining near Milín – also scored among the military technical monuments here. It recorded a year-on-year increase of 22 percent, with 8.2 thousand visitors,” noted Kratochvílová.
The most visited places in the Central Bohemian Region
– Průhonice Park
– Marian pilgrimage site Svatá Hora near Příbram
– Kačina Castle near Kutná Hora and the Museum of the Czech Countryside of the National Agricultural Museum
– Kostnice Kutná Hora-Sedlec
– Fun and educational park Mirakulum Milovice
– Castle karlštejn
– Aquapark Aquapalace Prague Čestlice
– Zoo Chleby
– Temple of St. Barbory Kutná Hora
– Loučeň Castle
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The most visited places in the capital city of Prague
– Petrin Tower
– Prague Castle
– Oldtown Hall
– Model railway Kingdom of Railways in Smíchov
– Mirror maze in Petřín
– DinoPark Harfa (on the roof of Galerie Harfa shopping center)
– Ropeway in the Prague Zoo
– Botanical Garden in Troy
– Cableway to Petřín
– Prague ZOO
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