Prague · Malá Strana · Czech Republic

Waldstein Garden

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easy

10/10

best: afternoon

peaceful, baroque, secretive

A local would say...

The Swedish army liked this garden so much in 1648 they stole the statues — these are replacements.

A baroque garden hidden behind the walls of the 1630 Wallenstein Palace in Malá Strana, featuring a monumental Renaissance loggia, a fake stalactite grotto filled with hidden animals and grotesque faces, and a pond stocked with giant carp. The bronze statues in the garden are replicas — the Swedish army looted the originals in 1648 and they are now in Stockholm. The palace itself serves as the Czech Senate.