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A private tour of real Cubist and Art Nouveau architecture, ending with coffee at the Czech Museum of Cubism.
A private tour for your group only, real stops at genuine Cubist and Art Nouveau landmarks, ending with coffee at the House of the Black Madonna.
This is a private tour for your group only. Real stops include genuine Cubist and Art Nouveau architecture — Vodičkova Street, Wenceslas Square, the National Theatre — ending with coffee at the real Czech Museum of Cubism, in the House of the Black Madonna.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Meeting point in central Prague.
A genuinely unique, distinctly Czech style.
A real, genuine Cubist landmark.
No other travelers.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
A private tour for your group only, real stops at genuine Cubist and Art Nouveau landmarks, ending with coffee at the House of the Black Madonna. This is a private tour for your group only. Real stops include genuine Cubist and Art Nouveau architecture — Vodičkova Street, Wenceslas Square, the National Theatre — ending with coffee at the real Czech Museum of Cubism, in the House of the Black Madonna.
Czech Cubism is a genuine architectural rarity. Cubism is usually thought of purely as a painting movement pioneered by Picasso and Braque, but nowhere else in the world did it get translated into actual buildings at any real scale. Prague is effectively the only city where that happened, for a brief window in the years just before and after the First World War, and this walk's real centerpiece, the House of the Black Madonna, is where it started.
Architect Josef Gočár, only 31 at the time, designed the building in 1911-1912 for wholesale merchant František Josef Herbst, on a site previously occupied by a demolished Baroque house that had carried the same name — a Baroque statue of a black Madonna, now displayed behind a gilded grille on the building's corner, gave both the old house and the new one their shared name. It's considered the first Cubist building constructed anywhere, built with a reinforced-concrete frame inspired by Chicago School engineering rather than traditional load-bearing walls, which let Gočár push the faceted, crystalline angles that define Czech Cubism into the facade itself.
Today the upper floors house the real Museum of Czech Cubism, while the ground floor is the Grand Café Orient — the only fully Cubist café interior ever built anywhere, designed down to its chandeliers and furniture. The original café only lasted until the 1920s, once Cubism fell out of fashion, before it closed; it was carefully restored and reopened in 2005, and it's that same real room where this walk ends with coffee.
Along the way, the route also threads through the older Art Nouveau layer that came just before Cubism, on Vodičkova Street and around Wenceslas Square — the ornamental, naturalistic style that Czech Cubism was, in many ways, a direct reaction against.
Every Voyzo tour is a starting point — tell us what you have in mind and we'll build it.
