Gardens of Prague Castle

Executive summary by darmansjah

The northern gardens of Prague Castle are also part of the entire complex of the Upper- and Lower Stag Moat. There is a continuous garden belt below the southern face wall creating the Paradise Garden and Garden on the Ramparts - which also includes the adjacent Hartig Garden. On the north-western edge of the Castle there is a little gem - Garden on the Bastion.

The verdure around Prague Castle today consists of six gardens. Along the northern face wall there is the historically most valuable of the gardens - Royal Garden, stretching to the west there is a modern garden next to the building of the Riding School and still further on there is Lumbe Garden, now used as a Castle nursery garden.

The northern gardens of Prague Castle are also part of the entire complex of the Upper- and Lower Stag Moat. There is a continuous garden belt below the southern face wall creating the Paradise Garden and Garden on the Ramparts - which also includes the adjacent Hartig Garden.

Garden on the Terrace of the Riding School, The garden is completely arranged by Castle's gardeners.

Garden on the Bastion

This garden covers the area at the entrance to the Spanish Hall. Currently the garden is laid out according to the design by architect Josip Plecnik in the style of Italian and Japanese gardens. The name of the garden recalls the older mediaeval bulwarks on the north-western side of Prague Castle. The garden can be approached from the Powder Bridge past the northern wing of Prague Castle above the Upper Stag Mote, or from the opposite direction from Hradcany square (Hradcanske namesti).

The Southern Gardens were established gradually in the location of bulwarks beneath Prague Castle. 

Paradise Garden, The first garden in front of the southern face wall of the Castle linked to the private garden of Archduke Ferdinand dates from the fifties of the 16th century. Architect Plecnik designed the current image of the sunny southern garden in the twenties of the 20th century.

Garden on the Ramparts,The garden can be approached from the New Castle Stairs (Nove zamecke schody) via the Paradise Garden (Rajska zahrada), or from the Old Castle Stairs (Stare zamecke schody) from Opys view point. 

The Hartig Garden with a Music Pavilion was joined to the Garden on the Ramparts in the sixties of the 20th century. The approach is from the garden On the Ramparts.