Vinohrady and Zizkov

Zizkov is the district a bit outside the city center where the tall TV tower is. Vinohrady has mostly old beautiful residence buildings, while Zizkov has both classic buildings and 60s modern commie blocks. The largest train station in Prague is situated at Vinohrady.

Wilsonovo nádrazi, also called Hlavni nadrazi is the largest of Prague's 4 train stations. It was very worn inside and really need a refurbishment, even if the building is nice with its decorated dome. The annex to the right is Hotel Vesta.

Now we wanted to cross the rails to get to the district Zizkov next to Vinohrady, because we wanted to visit Prague´s famous TV tower.
We a guy around 30 or something about the way and he was very kind and talked about everything from terrorists to how he was too young to remember the communist times and how he had got used to the beautiful buildings after moving to Prague while he walked we us to show us the right way.

Praha TV Tower (televizni vez Zizkov) - finally there it is! At a height of 216m, it is Czech's by far tallest structure.

It was built during the communist time to prevent the Czech citizens from watching West German TV. But It was not completed until 1992. If this, or the structure's monsterious architecture visible from the whole city, is the reason why most Prague residents hate the tower, I don't know.

"Miminka", an odd artwork of climbing babies where added on the façade by the artist David Cerny in 2001! They seem to be climbing up to the top. Future members of a skyscraper forum may be?

A mother's worst nightmare!

If Prague was the world…

The views from the observation deck on the top:

It had became cloudy just in time to when we reached the tower. After all, this was also almost the only time it was cloudy on our trip. After all the windows where dirty and it was starting to get dark too, so nevermind…

Towards the old town.

After watching the views, we went down on the bar in the lower section (8th floor I think) and had a bear in the bar with a view. It was as cheap as all other bars in Prague despite being in a tall TV tower with a view.

Meanwhile we where sitting there it was getting dark. So we went back up again by the fast elevator to see how Prague's skyline looked after dark.

When going home, we went towards downtown through the surroundings of Vinohrady and Zizkov that were consisting of old beautiful buildings and ugly grey midrise blocks. It was now dark and this district has a nice and mystic atmosphere. We passed the classic shopping arcade Vinohrady Pavilion (an old red beautiful building) that we wanted to visit (it should be open to 9 according to the guide book), but it was closed for reconstruction and modernisation. So unfortunately there will be no more chances to see how it looked in the communist times...