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A private tour of the real, genuine Strahov Library, Art Gallery, and Basilica.
A private tour for your group only, real stops at the genuine Strahov Library, Art Gallery, Gardens, and Basilica of the Assumption.
This is a private tour for your group only. Real stops include the genuine Strahov Library, Art Gallery, Gardens, and the Basilica of the Assumption.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Meeting point at Strahov Monastery, Prague.
Genuine historic baroque library halls.
Genuine panoramic Prague views.
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 the genuine Strahov Library, Art Gallery, Gardens, and Basilica of the Assumption. This is a private tour for your group only. Real stops include the genuine Strahov Library, Art Gallery, Gardens, and the Basilica of the Assumption.
Strahov Monastery was founded in 1143, traditionally credited to Duke Vladislaus II of Bohemia with the backing of the Olomouc bishop Jindřich Zdík, making it one of the oldest Premonstratensian houses anywhere and one of the oldest working monasteries in Bohemia. It has survived fires, the upheavals of the Hussite wars, and — in the 20th century — outright closure: in April 1950, Czechoslovakia's communist government forced every monk off the premises and folded the monastery into a state-run Memorial of National Literature. The Premonstratensians weren't given the building back until July 1990, after the fall of communism.
The two library halls this tour visits are genuinely distinct architectural set pieces, not a single room split in two for ticketing purposes. The Theological Hall was built between 1671 and 1679 to a design by Giovanni Domenico Orsi and today holds a theological collection running past 200,000 volumes. The Philosophical Hall came later, built in 1782–1784 to house the monks' secularized library after a dissolved Moravian abbey's books arrived, and its soaring ceiling fresco — painted in 1794 by the Austrian artist Franz Anton Maulbertsch — depicts the entire sweep of human intellectual history from antiquity onward.
Walking from the library halls out into the monastery's own gardens brings one of Prague's real panoramic views over the Castle District and the river below — a vantage earned, quite literally, by the monastery's position on its own hill above Malá Strana.
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