Průhonice Park and the Institute of Botany

If you want to know the true meaning of harmony of space, visit the Průhonice park. It is a spacious landscape park, named a Czech National Historic Landmark and listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The park is located just a short distance from Prague and offers its visitors 25 km of paths to admire unique natural vistas, masterful compositions and an extraordinary collection of exotic and domestic wood species and plants.

Since Protected content , when the park was founded, no other landscape architect has had Protected content of land at their disposal to design as they pleased, limited only by their own ideas and plans. Nor is it usually that one architect would continue to care for their work for nearly 50 years. A. E. Silva-Tarouca created the last independent landscape park in the country and possibly the world. Today, the work he started is continued by the Průhonice Park Management, part of the Institute of Botany (one of the institutes of the Czech Academy of Sciences), which is located here ) Protected content .

I would like to invite you for an easy 3 hours walk and a good lunch afterwards.