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Hradcany

Hradcany is the castle district of Prague, a cadastral area on the ridge above Mala Strana holding Prague Castle, the Loreta and the Strahov Monastery.

Type
cadastral area
Status
An official administrative unit with a defined boundary.

Also known as Hradčany, Castle District.

Hradcany is a cadastral area and was a separate town until 1784. Prague Castle stands within it, which is why the castle is not in Mala Strana despite being immediately above it - a distinction visitors routinely miss.

What is recorded here

Counts describe this corpus, not the area as a whole.

  • Religious sites2
  • Civic & heritage1

Places in Hradcany

Civic & heritage

Prague Castle

Hradcany

Prague Castle is a walled complex above the Vltava containing St Vitus Cathedral, the Old Royal Palace, St George's Basilica and Golden Lane. Founded in the ninth century, it is the seat of the President of the Czech Republic.

Religious sites

Loreta

Hradcany

The Loreta in Prague's Hradcany is a Baroque pilgrimage complex begun in 1626 around a replica of the Holy House of Loreto, with a cloister, a church and a carillon of 27 bells installed in 1694.

Religious sites

Strahov Monastery

Hradcany

Strahov Monastery is a Premonstratensian abbey founded in 1143 on the ridge above Mala Strana in Prague, best known for its Theological and Philosophical library halls of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Visit info checked Sept 2026

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