Nature in the Centre

Park Circuit

The historical city centre is surrounded by parks from the three sides.

The original tree lined promenade area established on the site of the pulled down medieval walls in the middle of the 19t century has been gradually complemented by sculptures and monuments of famous Pilsen personalities.

• Mill lode (Mlýnská strouha)

A new relaxation zone with large artificial lake, new paseo and playground was open by the reconstruction of the former mill lode (Mlýnská strouha). Thanks to the succesfull adjustments the park got award „Park of the year 2010“ in the national competition.

• Křížík’s Park (Křižíkovy sady)

A monument and a bust of František Křižík, the Pilsen „Edison“, the inventor of the arc lamp (the original deposited in the Museum of West Bohemia)

Theatrum Mundi

- a large scale picture of Pilsen personalities in a gap site between houses. A favourite summer venue.

• Šafařík’s Park (Šafaříkovy sady)

Sculptural group of the puppets Spejbl and Hurvínek, two famous Pilsen “natives”.

Franciscan Monastery

- Gothic church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is visible through loopholes in the modern-times walls.

• Kopecký’s Park (Kopeckého sady)

The Museum of West Bohemia

The representative building of the Museum of West Bohemia with a circular fountain in front of it is a site of social meetings.

• Smetana’s Park (Smetanovy sady)

Municipal Meeting House

- beautiful Secession interiors excel after the 2004 reconstruction.

The J. K. Tyl Theatre

A permanent professional theatre ensemble has performed in Pilsen for the past 140 years but it was only at the turn of the 19th and 20th century that the Pilsen citizens got a respectable theatre building. The building of the Great Theatre (a main venue of the J. K. Tyl Theatre) is built in the Neo-Renaissance style with numerous sculptures and rich stucco decorations. Its remarkable curtain is the work of a prominent regional painter A. Němejc.

The Old Synagogue

Hidden behind the front line of houses, in the courtyard of Smetanovy Sady No. 5, the curious visitor can find the Old Synagogue. There used to be a Jewish school too – on the same site there is an unusual memorial of the holocaust victims.