Vysočany
Vysočany is a part of Prague in the Prague 9 administrative district, Czech Republic.
Vysočany is a part of Prague in the Prague 9 administrative district, Czech Republic. It lays in the eastern part of Prague around the valley with Rokytka river.HistoryThe first recorded information about Vysočany is from 1115 when the duke Vladislav I. gave Vysočany vineyards to Kladruby monastery.
In 1896 - Emil Kolben - important Czech engineer and entrepreneur founded its factory which later became the famous ČKD. This strongly influenced Vysočany as a heavily industrial district of Prague.
In the year 1902 - the emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria awarded Vysočany with the title of city and the right to use its coat of arms.
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Worth seeing in and around Vysočany
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Faculty of Humanities, Charles University
The Faculty of Humanities, Charles University is a faculty of Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. Located in Libeň, Prague 8, the faculty has about 220 internal employers and 3250 students.
3.8 km · Faculty of Charles University · Wikipedia - 02O₂ arena
O2 Arena is a multi-purpose arena, in Prague, Czech Republic. It is home to HC Sparta Prague of the Czech Extraliga and is the third-largest ice hockey arena in Europe.
900 m · Multi-purpose arena in Prague, Czechia · Wikipedia - 03Kbely Aviation Museum
Kbely Aviation Museum is the largest aviation museum in the Czech Republic and one of the largest of its kind in Europe. It is located to the north-east of Prague, at the military airport Kbely.
3.2 km · aviation museum at Kbely Airbase, Prague, Czech Republic · Wikipedia - 04Kobylisy Shooting Range
Kobylisy Shooting Range is a former military shooting range located in Kobylisy, a northern suburb of Prague, Czech Republic.
3.1 km · site of Nazi war crimes in Czechia · Wikipedia - 05The Anthropoid Operation Memorial
The Operation Anthropoid Memorial is a monument in Libeň district of Prague, Czech Republic. It commemorates Operation Anthropoid, an ambush on senior Nazi official Reinhard Heydrich by Czechoslovak partisans on 27 May 1942, which resulted in his death one week later.
2.2 km · memorial in Prague · Wikipedia - 06Rezidence Eliška
Rezidence Eliška is a high-rise residential building in Prague-Vysočany. It is 93.6 metres tall.
900 m · building in Prague, Czech Republic · Wikipedia - 07Unicorn University
Unicorn University, formerly known as Unicorn College, is a vocationally oriented private university located in Prague. It was established in 2007 by Unicorn a.s.
3.7 km · vocationally oriented private university in Prague, Czechia · Wikipedia - 08Ďáblice cemetery
Ďáblice Cemetery is a graveyard in Prague, Czech Republic. It is located in the Ďáblice municipal district in Prague 8, in the northern part of Prague.
2.9 km · cemetery in Prague, Czech Republic · Wikipedia - 09CETIN building
The CETIN building was a building complex in Žižkov, Prague 3 district near Olšany Cemetery. Built in 1979 as the Central Telecommunications Building, it became the headquarters of major operators such as SPT Telecom and O2 Czech Republic after the Velvet Revolution and formation of the Czech Republic.
3.7 km · building in Prague · Wikipedia - 10Vrch sv. Kříže
Parukářka Park is a park located on the Hill of saint Cross in Žižkov, Prague, Czech Republic.
3.8 km · hill, Prague 3 - Žižkov, Czech Republic · Wikipedia
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Getting to Vysočany
- Airports
- Václav Havel Prague (PRG), 17 km · Pardubice (PED), 89 km · Karlovy Vary (KLV), 113 km
- Stations
- Ládví, 2.4 km · Kobylisy, 3.3 km · Letňany, 1.9 km · Prosek, 700 m · Nádraží Holešovice, 4 km
- Pardubice → Vysočany90 km · quickest by road, 1h 52m · Kč150–195
- Karlovy Vary → Vysočany118 km · quickest by road, 2h 36m · Kč180–240
- České Budějovice → Vysočany126 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · Kč205–275
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Vysočany
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Vysočany. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundThe historic center consists largely of cobblestone streets, so wearing comfortable walking shoes is highly recommended." (2024)]] around Prague consists of three metro lines (, , ), over twenty tram lines (numbered 1–31 & 91–99 for night trams), trolleybuses (numbered 51–59), buses (3-digit numbers), ferries, a few train lines (numbered S1, S2, S49,…), all using the same time tickets.
- Get aroundThese tickets may be of interest to visitors (new prices from Jan 2026): 39 (36 in app) Kč – full ticket: 30 minutes (transfers allowed), not valid on the Petřín funicular 50 (46) Kč – full ticket: 90 minutes (transfers allowed), not valid on the Petřín funicular 150 (140) Kč – 24-hour ticket, 350 (340) Kč – 3-day ticket (72 hours) 315 (288) Kč - 24-hour ticket for all zones of PID (Prague integrated transport system) - covering all urban and suburban transport in Prague and Central Bohemian Region All tickets are approx.
- Get aroundValidate your paper ticket by slipping it into one of the validators (ticket yellow boxes in the tram, bus, trolleybus, ferry or metro entrance), as soon as you board.
- Get aroundIn the metro, on the S-trains and on the funicular, the validators are in stations instead of the vehicles.
- Get aroundEvery 15 minutes a funicular runs to the top of Petřín Hill.
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Next door to Vysočany
Vysočany is 6 km from Prague, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Žižkovurban district of Prague3.6 km
- Libeňcadastral area and district of Prague1.4 km
- Prague 9administrative district and municipal part of Prague600 m
- Ďáblicemunicipal district and cadastral area in Prague3.7 km
- Hrdlořezydistrict of Prague2.5 km
- Malešicedistrict and cadastral community of Prague, Czech Republic3.4 km