The Baroque terraces
Carved stairs and pergolas climbing the slope as salons.
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Complementary twins: Wallenstein (the Senate's palace) is flat grandeur — giant loggia, free peacocks, free entry in season — while these are the climbing terraces with the views, paid. The ideal single afternoon: Wallenstein first, its gate steps from these — then up the terraces exiting at the castle: the city's completest green corridor.
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Baroque stairways hung on the castle's south slope: five adjoining noble palace gardens (Ledebour, Pálffy, Kolowrat, Small and Great Fürstenberg) climb in terraces from Malá Strana's lanes to the castle walls — every terrace an open salon: lawns enthroned, carved stairs, pergolas, muraled loggias. Their secret is being the loveliest least-crowded thing in the most-crowded city: you enter a modest door on Valdštejnská street and ascend private heavens that belonged to the empire's families — the view widening terrace by terrace to the full red-tiled panorama of Prague from the top: the left bank's finest photographic balconies by a comfortable margin. The upper passage exits straight into the castle's own garden — so make them your clever ascent: instead of the packed castle stairs, salon stairways of paid-for quiet, ending at the very ramparts.
Carved stairs and pergolas climbing the slope as salons.
All Prague from the top terrace — the left bank's first balcony.
Valdštejnská 12-14, 118 00 Prague