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Kladno
City in the Czech Republic

Kladno

Kladno is a city in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic.

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It has about 70,000 inhabitants, making it the largest city in the region. It lies near Prague, mainly in the flat landscape of the Prague Plateau.

Get in

Getting to Kladno

It sits about 17 km (11 mi) northwest of Prague. You can get there by a train from Praha Masarykovo nádraží (metro B, Náměstí Republiky), the ride takes about 3/4hr. There are three stations on this line: Kladno, Kladno město, and Kladno Ostrovec.

See

Worth seeing

  1. 01
    Hornický skanzen Mayrau
  2. 02
    Budeč

    Ruins of Slavic hill fort and oldest standing building in the Czech Republic - Church of Saint Peter and Paul from 895(!), near Kladno.

  3. 03
    Lidice Memorial

    Memorial of village completely destroyed during the Nazi occupation, as revenge for assassination of Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich in 1942.

  4. 04
    Svatováclavský
  5. 05
    Lány Castle
  6. 06
    Melicharovo
Do

Things to do

  1. 01
    Smečenská
  2. 02
    Zoo Zájezd

    One of the smallest zoos in the country, open since 2009.

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