Františkánská zahrada

Pretty little park, rather unexpected amidst the busy city.

The Franciscan Garden and the Church of Our Lady of Snows can be visited together if you like. Although most people from the area will go mostly to the garden for a takeaway lunch or ice-cream during a work break.The Prague Franciscan GardenWHAT’S THE HISTORY?You have to go back to 1347, the year of the coronation of the famous King Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor. The day after the coronation he ordered that this land be given to the Karmelites for the purposes of building him a coronation church. As it was outside of the fortified Old Town most of the original church was detroyed during the Hussite wars of the early 15th Century. In 1604 the Franciscans took over the area, repaired the church and added the monastery.THE FRANCISCAN GARDENAlthough redesigned several times in it’s life and largely destroyed during the Hussite Wars of the early 15th Century. by the mid 18th Century the Franciscan Garden was now in it’s present French Baroque form with ornate hedging, sculptures and a chapel in the centre (now a craft shop in a herb garden), but it was still privately owned. It’s not until 1950 with the communist takeover and forced arrest of the monks that the Franciscan garden was opened to the public. It was replanted with fruit trees, rose gardens and renovated in the early 1990s but was never returned to the Catholic Church and today remains the property of the city Prague 1 district.WHERE IS THE FRANCISCAN GARDEN?Unbelievably it’s less than 100 metres from Wenceslas Square. The map below shows how it can be accessed in 6 different ways:1) From Wenceslas Square via Palac U Styblu
2) From Vodickova via the Palac Svetozor
3) From Vodickova via the Mysak Gallery
4) From Palackeho via the Poliklinika
5) From Jungmannova via Teta Passage
6) From Jungmannova Square via the corner next to the church

Cozy and very quiet place in the very center of Prague. Has a labyrinth of bushes with benches, so you can sit, relax and have something to eat while admiring the beauty around or your kids playing

Small and busy garden in summer. You need to visit this garden because it's fantastic and located in the city center. There are no many parks in the city center of Prague, and this one is great.

This little gardens in the city centre is amazing. Very quiet even when busy. We spent a couple of hours just relaxing before our flight and felt so relaxed after.

Lovely park to rest and enjoy a break while enjoying the city. Bathrooms, play ground for children, beautiful benches to sit on with lovely arbors and green area to picnic in the center.

Nice garden. Grab an ice cream or a coffee in some of the surrounding coffee shops and sit there to enjoy people walking around and the atmosphere. Do it during days with a good weather, of course! ;-)

It's a park with beautiful rose bushes but a lot of homeless people and junkies.

You can easily miss the entrance if you do not look carefully but once you are in, the gardens are beautiful. Just in a few minutes from the old town center, and apart from the gardens you also enjoy the playground if you have a minor as we did, although the facilities could be renovated.

Nice little garden with flowers, benches, coffee shop and public toilets.