Photo: Suicasmo (CC BY-SA 4.0)
A self-guided audio walk from Prague Castle down through the Lesser Town and the Old Town to Wenceslas Square, telling the story of the real Saint Wenceslas behind the English carol and the Czech Christmas customs. It starts in the Third Courtyard at St Vitus Cathedral, where Wenceslas, murdered by his brother Boleslav in 935, lies in the Saint Wenceslas Chapel, then St George's Basilica, and St Nicholas on Malostranské náměstí, with the Czech eve of Saint Nicholas, when Mikuláš comes with an angel and a devil. Over Charles Bridge, where a lamplighter lights the gas lamps by hand each Advent, it reaches the Bethlehem Chapel of Jan Hus and its Advent exhibition of nativity scenes, Old Town Square and the Týn Church, the Astronomical Clock, and Havelské tržiště with the story of the Christmas carp. It ends at Myslbek's statue of Saint Wenceslas and at St Ludmila's on Náměstí Míru. The Christmas markets run in Advent; the churches, squares and their stories are there all year.
11 narrations, yours to keep — no subscription, no expiry. Works offline once downloaded, and if it isn’t for you we’ll refund it.
Going somewhere with no signal? Put the guide on your home screen first, then download it from that icon while you are on wi-fi — that way you download once, and it works in airplane mode with no roaming charges. Show me the order →
Every claim in this tour traces back to a named source — excavation records, the heritage authority for the site, and the primary texts themselves. Nothing is copied from other guidebooks, and anything we can't source doesn't make the recording.
Each stop is built from OpenStreetMap · 1378 features in this old town (the field-surveyed mapping database behind Apple Maps), Wikidata · 262 cross-referenced entries (peer-reviewed structured records), the heritage authority below, and the primary historical texts where they exist.
Cross-referenced against Modern excavation publications · academic peer-review.
Every sentence is checked against those sources before it is recorded. If a claim can't be traced, it doesn't make the audio.
Every tour is reviewed by a person before it goes on sale. Stop selection, the route and anything ambiguous come back to the editor for a decision, and those questions routinely send a stop back for another accuracy pass. Nothing publishes on a machine’s say-so.
Spot anything inaccurate? Email [email protected] — fixed in the next pass.
The Third Courtyard and St Vitus Cathedral, St George's Square and Basilica, Malostranské náměstí and St Nicholas Church.
Charles Bridge, Bethlehem Chapel, Old Town Square, The Týn Church, The Old Town Hall and the Astronomical Clock, Havelské tržiště.
Wenceslas Square and the St Wenceslas Statue, Náměstí Míru and St Ludmila's Church.
Charles IV's cathedral, built from 1344 to 1929, where Saint Wenceslas lies in the chapel Peter Parler built for him in the 1360s.
Begun in 1357 and the only crossing of the Vltava in Prague until 1841; each Advent its gas lamps are lit by hand.
The chapel where Jan Hus preached in Czech from 1402 to 1413, rebuilt in the 1950s, which holds an Advent exhibition of nativity scenes.
Prague's largest Christmas market each Advent, and the twenty-seven white crosses for the leaders executed here in 1621.
A clock first made in 1410; on the hour, watch the two small windows where the Twelve Apostles pass.
Myslbek's equestrian Wenceslas, and the story of how an English hymn writer of 1853 made a Czech duke into a Christmas king.
Tap "Start Walking Tour" and allow location access. The map shows all 11 narration points.
Follow the suggested route or explore freely. GPS tracks your position. Reach a site and the narration plays automatically.
Each site has its own narration. 11 narration points.
Narrations play when you reach each site. No buttons, no track numbers. Walk naturally — the stories find you.
Premium narration that sounds like a documentary. Warm and knowledgeable, not a textbook reading.
Every narration is drafted, cross-checked against primary sources, then passed through a second editorial pass that strips unsupported claims. Dates, names, and citations verified.
See all narration points on the map. Tap any point to hear it early or replay it later.
Every narrated point in Prague at Christmas — Good King Wenceslas and the Old Town Markets, each with its own narration.
Spend an hour or a full day. Skip sites, revisit favourites, take breaks. The tour adapts to you.
11 narration points, including The Third Courtyard and St Vitus Cathedral, St George's Square and Basilica, Malostranské náměstí and St Nicholas Church, Charles Bridge and Bethlehem Chapel. That is about 22 minutes of narration in all, and you walk between the stops at your own pace.
Yes. It plays in your phone’s browser as you walk: no guide, no group, no app to install and no fixed start time.
Three ways, all built in:
The map-tap option means you can stand anywhere — even at home before you travel — and play any narration. GPS just makes it hands-free while you’re actually walking the site.
No. Use the “Download for offline” button before you go, and the entire tour — audio, maps, narration text — works without any data connection. Tap-to-play and the map both work fully offline. GPS itself doesn’t need data; only the download does.
Add the icon first, then download from the icon. On iPhone a guide downloaded in Safari cannot be seen by the home screen icon, so downloading first means downloading the whole thing twice.
Putting it on your home screen — iPhone or iPad (Safari):
On Android (Chrome): tap the three-dot menu at the top right, tap Add to Home screen (some phones say Install app), then confirm. On Android either order works.
If you opened this link from inside Instagram, Facebook or Gmail, you are in that app’s built-in browser. It cannot add anything to your home screen, and a guide downloaded there is thrown away when the app closes. Open the link in Safari or Chrome first.
Two backstops. First, the map shows every site — just tap the marker for the place in front of you. Second, you can manually queue any narration even when GPS is off. The platform never assumes GPS works; it’s the convenience layer, not the gate.
The audio runs ~2½ hours total, but you walk at your own pace. 11 narration points across the site. Most visitors take 2–4 hours; some spread it over multiple visits. Once you buy it, it’s yours — there’s no expiry and no subscription. Come back next year if you like; the link in your receipt always works.
One purchase covers one device session. Most couples share earbuds and use a single phone — the audio is paced for that. If you want everyone listening on their own device, each person needs their own purchase. We do not gate sharing aggressively; we trust visitors to do the right thing.
Full refund if you never trigger a single narration on-site. Partial refund based on how far you got. See the refund policy for specifics.