Prague Embarkments

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Featured embankments - most popular on Prague boat tours:

• Rašín Embankment / Rašínovo nábřeží
• Smetana Embankment / Smetanovo nábřeží
• Dvořák Embankment / Dvořákovo nábřeží

All other Vltava embankments (south to north):

Right bank:

• Podolí Embankment / Podolské nábřeží
• Masaryk Embankment / Masarykovo nábřeží
• Aleš Embankment / Alšovo nábřeží
• Ludvík Svoboda Embankment / Nábřeží Ludvíka Svobody
• Rohan Embankment / Rohanské nábřeží

Left bank:

• Upper Embankment / Hořejší nábřeží
• Janáček Embankment / Janáčkovo nábřeží
• Lesser Town Embankment / Malostranské nábřeží
• Kosárek Embankment / Kosárkovo nábřeží
• E. Beneš Embankment / Nábřeží Edvarda Beneše
• Captain Jaroš Embankment / Nábřeží Kapitána Jaroše
• Bubny Embankment / Bubenské nábřeží
• Holešovice Embankment / Holešovické nábřeží

Sixteen named embankments run along the Vltava through Prague, eight to a bank, from the rowing clubs of Podolí in the south to the old slaughterhouse district of Holešovice in the north. Most weren't regulated into anything resembling a proper road until the late 19th or early 20th century - before that this riverside was mostly mills, tanneries, sandbanks and the odd bathhouse. A fair few embankments carry two or three names from the various regimes that renamed them along the way, and one of them, Dvořák Embankment, has somehow kept its original name since the day it was finished.

Prague's Embankments - Sixteen Roads Along One River

The stone walls and quays you walk along today were carved out of an unruly riverbank piece by piece, embankment by embankment, often decades apart and under wildly different governments - which is why Prague's embankments read almost like a timeline of the city's politics. A name change usually meant a regime change: Masaryk Embankment alone has gone by at least four different names since 1894, swinging between a Habsburg emperor, two presidents and a communist leader depending on who was in charge that decade.

This guide starts with the three embankments boats use most, both as a backdrop and as actual landing points - Rašín, Smetana and Dvořák - then works through the other thirteen bank by bank, south to north. Each entry covers the Czech name, any earlier or alternative names, when it was built and named, what's actually worth looking at along it, and how to find it on foot.

You can browse Alle Travel's full catalogue of Prague river cruises to see which of these embankments your boat will pass.

Rašín Embankment / Rašínovo nábřeží

Czech name: Rašínovo nábřeží | Alternative names: Palackého nábřeží, Vyšehradské nábřeží, Libušino nábřeží (names once used for its separate sections)

Rašín Embankment runs along the right bank from the Vyšehrad rock at Výtoň up to Jirásek Bridge, and it's named after Alois Rašín, the economist who became Czechoslovakia's first finance minister and was shot in an assassination attempt in January 1923, dying of his wounds a few weeks later. The name as it covers the whole stretch today only goes back to 1990. Before that it applied, on and off, to a shorter section further south.

It went up in two goes. The northern part by Palacký Square took shape from 1875, while the southern part out toward the Vyšehrad rock wasn't finished until the early 1900s, alongside the road tunnel through the hill. Building it wiped out old Podskalí, a riverside settlement of raftsmen and timber traders that had been there since the Middle Ages, and about the only thing left from it is the former customs house at Výtoň. Up at Jirásek Square stands the Dancing House, the wavy Milunić-and-Gehry block from the 1990s that everyone in Prague has an opinion on.

• Bank: Right bank
• Length: approx. 950 m
• District: Praha 2 (Nové Město and Vyšehrad)
• Address: Rašínovo nábřeží, 120 00 Praha 2 (southern Vyšehrad section 128 00)
• Built: northern section from 1875; southern section early 1900s, alongside the Vyšehrad Tunnel
• Name in use since: 1990 for the full stretch; used earlier (1924-1941 and 1945-1951) for a shorter section
• Nearest metro: Karlovo náměstí (line B), Palackého náměstí exit

Particulars: The real draw today is the náplavka below the road, easily the liveliest stretch of riverside quay in the city centre, with galleries and bars tucked into the old vaulted cellars and farmers markets that pack the place out on Saturdays. It's long been a working pier too - boats and steamers have loaded passengers here since well before the war, and that's still where a good chunk of today's sightseeing boats leave from.

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Smetana Embankment / Smetanovo nábřeží

Czech name: Smetanovo nábřeží | Alternative names: Staroměstské nábřeží, Františkovo nábřeží, Masarykovo nábřeží (used here from 1919 to 1952)

Smetana Embankment is the showpiece stretch of the right bank, running from Legion Bridge to Křižovnické náměstí at the foot of Charles Bridge. It carries the composer Bedřich Smetana's name, though that wasn't made official until 1952 - before that it had gone by Staroměstské, then Františkovo, then Masarykovo at various points. What actually matters historically is the build date: this was Prague's first stone embankment, laid down between 1841 and 1845 when this whole riverbank was still just open sand dotted with fishermen's huts.

Architect Bernard Gruber designed it and the entrepreneur Vojtěch Lanna built it, right after the Franz chain bridge went up where Legion Bridge now stands. At the far end sits Novotného lávka, a cluster of converted mill buildings hard against Charles Bridge, with the Smetana Museum installed in the old Old Town Waterworks and the Vltava still running underneath the floor.

• Bank: Right bank
• Length: approx. 500 m
• District: Praha 1, Staré Město
• Address: Smetanovo nábřeží, 110 00 Praha 1
• Built: 1841-1845 - Prague's first stone embankment
• Designer / builder: Bernard Gruber (design), Vojtěch Lanna (construction)
• Name in use since: 1952, after the composer Bedřich Smetana
• Nearest metro: Staroměstská (line A)

Particulars: The view from here is genuinely the reason this stretch stays busy all day - the Castle panorama across the water is one of the most photographed sightlines in the city, and pretty much every cruise on the river glides past on its way toward Charles Bridge.

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Dvořák Embankment / Dvořákovo nábřeží

Czech name: Dvořákovo nábřeží | Alternative names: none official - part of its eastern end was once informally called "Na Františku"

From Na Rejdišti Street to Čech Bridge at Curie Square runs Dvořák Embankment, one-way for cars here and running against the river's flow. From Čech Bridge on to Štefánik Bridge it switches to two-way. It's a fairly important traffic route even though it sits well away from the main tourist centre, and the embankment runs right past the hospital and monastery complex Na Františku. Until the 19th century the eastern section, around today's Pařížská and Dušní streets, was part of a street literally called Saltpetre Street - the riverbank here once held bathhouses, timber yards and a saltpetre works.

It was built between 1899 and 1908 as part of the wider sanitation project that reshaped this side of the Old Town, and it's actually carried the name Dvořák, after the composer Antonín Dvořák, since the very day it opened - the only Prague embankment that's never been renamed. Two buildings worth noting stand along it: the Faculty of Law at Charles University, put up in 1928-1929 by architect Ladislav Machoň, and the Prague Conservatory building next door.

• Bank: Right bank
• Length: approx. 950 m (Na Rejdišti to Štefánik Bridge)
• District: Praha 1, Staré Město
• Address: Dvořákovo nábřeží, 110 00 Praha 1
• Built: 1899-1908
• Name in use since: 1904 - the only Prague embankment never renamed
• Nearest metro: Staroměstská (line A), or one tram stop (17) to Právnická fakulta

Particulars: This is Prague's busiest pier district for sightseeing boats, with the main Čech Bridge mooring and Bohemia Port, the only barrier-free pontoon in the city. A small copper-domed limnigraph station opposite the Convent of St Agnes, an Art Nouveau water-gauge house from 1912, is still reading the river's height today.

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Podolí Embankment / Podolské nábřeží

Czech name: Podolské nábřeží | Alternative names: none official, though earlier sections went by different local names before 1935

Podolí Embankment runs along the right bank from Dvorecké náměstí, past Rowing Island, to the Vyšehrad Tunnel, where it carries straight on into Rašín Embankment. A tram line runs the whole length, and it's one of the favourite stretches for walking, running and cycling in the southern part of the city - quieter than the centre, well south of the main sights and more residential than touristy. The name's been fixed as Podolské continuously since 1935.

What's actually here is mostly tied up with water and sport. Rowing Island sits just off the bank, Prague's southernmost island, first recorded back in 1420 and home to some of the country's oldest rowing, canoe and yacht clubs. Set back from the river stands the Podolí Waterworks, an industrial landmark built between 1927 and 1929 by architect Antonín Engel, these days a backup water source that also houses the Museum of Prague Waterworks. A bit further along you'll find Žluté lázně, a riverside bathing spot that first opened in 1910, plus the 1960s Podolí swimming stadium with its distinctive parabolic concrete roof arches.

• Bank: Right bank
• District: Praha 4, Podolí
• Address: Podolské nábřeží, Praha 4
• Built: regulated bank, current form dates from the early 20th century
• Name in use since: 1935
• Nearest transport: tram runs the full length (no metro station directly on the embankment)

Particulars: Longer cruises heading upriver pass below this stretch before the skyline opens up properly at Vyšehrad. It's about 15 minutes on foot south of Rašín Embankment, following the riverside path through Výtoň.

Masaryk Embankment / Masarykovo nábřeží

Czech name: Masarykovo nábřeží | Alternative names: Františkovo nábřeží, Riegrovo nábřeží, Gottwaldovo nábřeží (renamed several times between 1894 and 1990)

Masaryk Embankment sits on the right bank opposite Slovanský Island, better known to most people as Žofín. It runs from Jirásek Square past the National Theatre to Legion Bridge, and it's named after Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Czechoslovakia's first president, though the name only stuck for good in 1990. In between it had been Riegrovo, then Gottwaldovo under the communists, among others.

Back in the 19th century none of this stretch was regulated at all. The bank belonged to millers and tanners who worked hides right at the water's edge, and a row of mills once stood here, the best known being the Šítkovský mill. What survives of it is the Šítkovská water tower, at 47 metres the tallest in Prague, which supplied the New Town's water network until 1913. In 1926 the Mánes art association bought the tower along with the surrounding mills, knocked the mills down and built the Mánes gallery building next door by 1930. There'd originally been a plan to fill in the river arm here and join Žofín straight onto the bank, but locals objected and the wall went up on today's line instead.

• Bank: Right bank
• District: Praha 1
• Address: Masarykovo nábřeží, Praha 1
• Built: section by Žofín completed 1903; joined with the National Theatre section in 1952
• Name in use since: 1990
• Nearest metro: Národní třída (line B)

Particulars: Between the National Theatre, Žofín and the Mánes building, it's a genuinely handsome run of riverfront, even if the traffic is heavier and the quay narrower than on the náplavka next door at Rašín Embankment.

Aleš Embankment / Alšovo nábřeží

Czech name: Alšovo nábřeží | Alternative names: none official

Aleš Embankment is a tucked-away, fairly quiet stretch running from Platnéřská Street past Mánes Bridge to Na Rejdišti Street. It's named after the painter and illustrator Mikoláš Aleš (1852-1913), and back in the medieval period there was a ford here, part of the old route from Old Town Square across to Prague Castle. By the late 19th century the area had become home to the painting academy that eventually grew into Prague's school of applied arts.

The one building everyone actually comes for is the Rudolfinum, completed in 1884-1885 to a design by architects Josef Zítek and Josef Schulz, the same pair behind the National Theatre and National Museum respectively. It's served at various points as an art gallery, a concert hall, the seat of the Czechoslovak parliament between the wars and, since 1946, the home of the Czech Philharmonic. There's also a floating restaurant moored on a large boat right by the embankment.

• Bank: Right bank
• District: Praha 1, Staré Město
• Address: Alšovo nábřeží, 110 00 Praha 1
• Built: regulated in stages through the 1870s-1880s, alongside construction of the Rudolfinum
• Landmark building: Rudolfinum (completed 1884-1885, architects Josef Zítek and Josef Schulz)
• Nearest metro: Staroměstská (line A)

Particulars: The whole stretch faces Prague Castle almost directly across the water, which is no small part of why the Rudolfinum ended up here in the first place. It's a short walk north of Charles Bridge, directly opposite Jan Palach Square.

Ludvík Svoboda Embankment / Nábřeží Ludvíka Svobody

Czech name: Nábřeží Ludvíka Svobody | Alternative names: Petrské nábřeží (1919-1934), Švehlovo nábřeží (1934-1948), nábřeží Kyjevské brigády (1948-1968)

Ludvík Svoboda Embankment runs along the right bank from Štefánik Bridge to Hlávka Bridge, through the old Petrská quarter where German merchants once clustered in the Middle Ages. It's named after Ludvík Svoboda, the general who became Czechoslovak president from 1968 to 1975, but it's worn at least four different names since it was built, swinging from a regional name to a politician's name to a Soviet-era brigade name, depending on who was running the country at the time.

The embankment itself went up between 1910 and 1919 as part of a much bigger flood-protection scheme for this part of Prague, one that also brought a new weir, a lock and a small hydroelectric plant on Štvanice island, the only one of five former river islands here that's still around today. Plans from the First Republic era set the land aside for a public park and a row of ministry buildings, and that's roughly what you'll still find. Lannova Park sits right alongside, and the floating Albatros botel has been a fixture on the skyline here for years.

• Bank: Right bank
• District: Praha 1, Nové Město
• Address: Nábřeží Ludvíka Svobody, Praha 1
• Built: 1910-1919, as part of a Vltava flood-control project
• Name in use since: 1968, after general and president Ludvík Svoboda
• Nearest metro: Florenc (lines B and C)

Particulars: It continues directly north from Dvořák Embankment past Štefánik Bridge, which makes it an easy add-on stop for anyone walking the riverside between the two.

Rohan Embankment / Rohanské nábřeží

Czech name: Rohanské nábřeží | Alternative names: none official

Rohan Embankment isn't really an embankment in the traditional sense at all - it's a wide four-lane road built over what used to be a side arm of the Vltava, the channel that once separated Rohan Island from the Karlín mainland. It runs from Hlávka Bridge through Karlín to the junction of U Rustonky and Voctářova streets, and it's named after Josef Rohan, a carpenter and Prague burgher who bought the island back in 1850.

The island itself was filled in and joined to the bank between 1920 and 1930. Since the late 1990s the whole area's been rebuilt from scratch as River City Praha, a modern office and residential complex that includes the Danube House (2003), Nile House (2006) and Amazon Court (2010) towers, with a steel footbridge added in 2002 linking the development back to central Karlín. At the southern end stands the Hilton Prague, the largest hotel in the Czech Republic.

• Bank: Right bank
• District: Praha 8, Karlín
• Address: Rohanské nábřeží, 186 00 Praha 8
• Built: current form from the late 1990s; the underlying Rohan Island was filled in 1920-1930
• Named after: Josef Rohan, carpenter and owner of Rohan Island from 1850
• Nearest metro: Invalidovna or Křižíkova (line B)

Particulars: There's not much riverside charm here in the traditional sense - this stretch is corporate Prague rather than postcard Prague - but it's worth knowing about if you're staying nearby or arriving by boat at the northern end of the centre.

Upper Embankment / Hořejší nábřeží

Czech name: Hořejší nábřeží | Alternative names: none official

Hořejší nábřeží is the name of a one-way road on the left bank that, heading into the city centre, continues on from Strakonická Street. It runs through Smíchov, an old industrial district once nicknamed "Prague's ironworks" for the sheer number of factory chimneys it had going. Construction of the road and quay between Jirásek and Palacký bridges followed in the years after 1903, with the wider quay section toward the railway bridge finished only in the 1920s.

What's here today is mostly the Smíchov quay, one of the liveliest of Prague's revived náplavky, sitting roughly between the Railway Bridge and Palacký Bridge. There's a riverside gallery with a café, an open-air summer cinema, and an unbeatable view across to Vyšehrad and the old iron railway bridge. The floating Admirál botel has sat on this stretch for decades, and before any of the current redevelopment, this same riverbank held popular public baths and a wooden theatre arena that was torn down in 1938.

• Bank: Left bank
• Length: approx. 900 m
• District: Praha 5, Smíchov
• Address: Hořejší nábřeží, 150 00 Praha 5
• Built: Jirásek-Palacký Bridge section after 1903; quay toward the railway bridge in the 1920s
• Nearest metro: Anděl (line B)

Particulars: Sand dredgers used to work this stretch too, hauling river sand out by barge and carting it through the city - not exactly the image of Smíchov people have today, walking the quay past the cafés and the summer cinema.

Janáček Embankment / Janáčkovo nábřeží

Czech name: Janáčkovo nábřeží | Alternative names: Ferdinandovo nábřeží (used for the northern section from the 1880s)

Janáček Embankment branches off Lidická Street at Palacký Bridge, runs past Children's Island and continues up to Legion Bridge. It's named after the composer Leoš Janáček, though the name's only applied to the whole stretch since 1961 - before that the northern part was Ferdinandovo nábřeží, a name that had been around since the 1880s, while the southern section was finished separately in the early 20th century.

It's a quieter, more residential run than its counterparts across the water, lined mostly with apartment blocks rather than monuments. Children's Island, just offshore, has been a spot for playgrounds and family outings for generations, and it's one of the easier river islands to actually walk onto.

• Bank: Left bank
• District: Praha 5, Smíchov
• Address: Janáčkovo nábřeží, 150 00 Praha 5
• Built: northern section from the 1880s; southern section early 20th century
• Name in use since: 1961, after composer Leoš Janáček
• Nearest metro: Anděl (line B), or tram along the embankment

Particulars: The embankment crosses Jirásek Square at a level junction before continuing toward Legion Bridge, giving a clean view straight back across to Masaryk and Smetana embankments on the opposite bank.

Lesser Town Embankment / Malostranské nábřeží

Czech name: Malostranské nábřeží | Alternative names: none - the stretch had no name at all before 1905

Malostranské nábřeží forms an inseparable part of the Prague Castle and Lesser Town panorama, running from Legion Bridge up to Sova's Mills on the edge of Kampa Island. It's short as Prague embankments go, but it gets a disproportionate amount of foot traffic given how compact it is. One stretch is built up with the so-called Jechenthal Houses, a row of apartment blocks put up in 1887-1888 by architect Josef Schulz for the entrepreneur Jindřich Jechenthal; the other stretch is just a grassy, semi-natural riverbank with a footpath.

The interesting part is what didn't happen here. Early-1900s plans called for filling in the Čertovka channel entirely and running a continuous stone wall all the way through Kampa to join up with Kosárek Embankment further north. That never went ahead, largely thanks to pushback from the heritage society Klub Za starou Prahu, which is exactly why Kampa and the area around the Devil's Channel today look more or less as they did a century ago.

• Bank: Left bank
• District: Praha 1, Malá Strana
• Address: Malostranské nábřeží, Praha 1
• Built: Jechenthal Houses section 1887-1888
• Name in use since: 1905 - previously unnamed
• Nearest metro: Malostranská (line A)

Particulars: It's the stretch that escaped the same hard-edged regulation treatment as most of the rest of central Prague's riverside, which is why this corner still has more of an old, slightly overgrown feel than its neighbours.

Kosárek Embankment / Kosárkovo nábřeží

Czech name: Kosárkovo nábřeží | Alternative names: U Vltavy (until the 1950s), Strakovo nábřeží (briefly afterward)

Kosárek Embankment is a small one that ranks among the prettiest in the city, forming part of the Prague Castle panorama when seen from Čech Bridge. It runs from Mánes Bridge to U Plovárny street, parallel almost the whole way to nábřeží Edvarda Beneše, so this is one of the odd stretches where the Vltava's left bank has two separate embankments running side by side rather than one.

It's named after the painter Adolf Kosárek (1830-1859), though that name's only been in use since 1961 - it was just "U Vltavy" before that, and briefly "Strakovo nábřeží" too. Its main job today is fairly mundane: it's the access road into the Strakova Academy, the neo-Baroque building that now houses the office of the Czech government.

• Bank: Left bank
• Length: approx. 320 m
• District: Praha 1
• Address: Kosárkovo nábřeží, Praha 1
• Name in use since: 1961, after painter Adolf Kosárek
• Nearest metro: Malostranská (line A)

Particulars: The view doesn't care what the road is officially for, and the stretch past the Academy gardens toward the river is one of the better quiet walks in this part of Malá Strana.

E. Beneš Embankment / Nábřeží Edvarda Beneše

Czech name: Nábřeží Edvarda Beneše | Alternative names: nábřeží pod Letnou (1920), Kramářovo nábřeží (1938), folded into nábřeží Kapitána Jaroše 1948-1991

Edvard Beneš Embankment runs from Klárov in the Lesser Town, first as a street boxed in by buildings and running parallel to Kosárek Embankment, then on its own past Čech Bridge at the foot of the Letná hillside, ending at Štefánik Bridge. It's named after Edvard Beneš, Czechoslovak president from 1935 to 1938 and again from 1945 to 1948, though that name's only attached to this specific stretch since 1991 - for over forty years before that, this whole corridor was folded together with what's now Captain Jaroš Embankment under one name.

At the start of the embankment stands the Strakova Academy, a neo-Baroque building from 1891-1896 originally built as a college for the sons of the Czech aristocracy, now home to the Czech government's main office. About 200 metres before Štefánik Bridge runs the Rudolf Gallery, a water tunnel Emperor Rudolf II had dug to supply the Royal Game Park. And up on the Letná hillside above, you'll spot the Metronome sculpture, standing exactly where an enormous Stalin monument once loomed over the city before it was demolished in 1962.

• Bank: Left bank
• District: Praha 1 / Praha 7
• Address: Nábřeží Edvarda Beneše, Praha 1
• Built: original road from the 1920s ("nábřeží pod Letnou"); current extent fixed in 1991
• Name in use since: 1991, after president Edvard Beneš
• Nearest metro: Malostranská (line A), or tram stop "Čechův most"

Particulars: From Klárov, the riverside road follows the bank north past Čech Bridge - this is also one of the main routes boats use for evening cruises, with the Castle lit up on the opposite bank.

Captain Jaroš Embankment / Nábřeží Kapitána Jaroše

Czech name: Nábřeží Kapitána Jaroše | Alternative names: nábřeží pod Letnou (1920-1938), Kramářovo nábřeží (1938-1948)

Nábřeží Kapitána Jaroše branches off from nábřeží Edvarda Beneše around Štefánik Bridge, runs underneath Hlávka Bridge and continues to the Negrelli Viaduct. It's named after Otakar Jaroš (1912-1943), a Czechoslovak army officer killed fighting on the Eastern Front, and the name's stuck since 1948 - before that this whole stretch went by other names alongside what's now its southern neighbour, until the two were split apart in 1991.

It's mostly a traffic corridor today, running below the steep wooded slope of Letná, busy enough that it's seen more than one serious junction redesign over the years. Stairs lead straight up from the embankment into Letná Park.

• Bank: Left bank
• Length: approx. 1,000 m
• District: Praha 7
• Address: Nábřeží Kapitána Jaroše, Praha 7
• Name in use since: 1948, after army officer Otakar Jaroš
• Nearest metro: Vltavská (line C), or tram along the embankment

Particulars: The stairway up from the "Nábřeží Kapitána Jaroše" tram stop into Letná Park is a handy back route if you're heading up to the beer garden or the park's lookout point rather than going the long way round through Hradčanská.

Bubny Embankment / Bubenské nábřeží

Czech name: Bubenské nábřeží | Alternative names: Vltavská ulice (1900-1930)

Bubenské nábřeží runs from the Negrelli Viaduct past the Holešovice Market to Komunardů Street. From there it's interrupted for a stretch, then picks up again toward Jateční Street and continues under Libeň Bridge to Holešovice Harbour. It's named after Bubny, a village that merged with Holešovice in 1850 and was annexed by Prague along with it in 1884.

The embankment's current shape dates from 1925-1930, built when the old slaughterhouse grounds nearby were redeveloped into what's now the Holešovice Market, still one of the city's best spots for fruit, vegetables and a fairly eclectic mix of shops and food stalls. Before that, this stretch was simply called Vltavská Street. Tram tracks run the whole length, and a 2005 refurbishment finally gave pedestrians a proper footpath between the road and the riverbank.

• Bank: Left bank
• District: Praha 7, Holešovice
• Address: Bubenské nábřeží, 170 00 Praha 7
• Built: current form 1925-1930, alongside redevelopment around the Holešovice Market
• Name in use since: named after the former village of Bubny (annexed by Prague 1884)
• Nearest metro: Vltavská (line C)

Particulars: It continues north from Captain Jaroš Embankment past the Negrelli Viaduct, and the market itself is worth the detour even outside the standard boat-tour zone.

Holešovice Embankment / Holešovické nábřeží

Czech name: Holešovické nábřeží | Alternative names: none official

Holešovické nábřeží was created by adapting the natural Vltava bank, running between the northern end of Partyzánská Street and the southern bridgehead of Barikádníků Bridge. This is where the original village of Holešovice first took shape, right on the riverbank, long before the area became the industrial and residential district it is now.

The embankment as a defined road dates from 1890, built during the broader regulation of the river around old Holešovice. The riverside houses that originally lined it are long gone - they were demolished in 1978 as part of a wider redevelopment, and what's left today functions mostly as a non-public transshipment and storage area rather than a place anyone walks for the view.

• Bank: Left bank
• District: Praha 7, Holešovice
• Address: Holešovické nábřeží, Praha 7
• Built: 1890, regulating the natural riverbank of old Holešovice
• Nearest metro: Nádraží Holešovice (line C)

Particulars: It's the least scenic of Prague's sixteen embankments, included here for completeness rather than because there's much reason to visit on foot, though longer cruise routes do pass it on the way north toward Troja.

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Most standard Vltava cruises run between Rašín Embankment in the south and Dvořák or Ludvík Svoboda Embankment in the north, passing Smetana, Masaryk, Aleš, Malostranské and Kosárek embankments along the way. Longer routes push further in either direction, out toward Podolí and Vyšehrad to the south or past Captain Jaroš and Bubny embankments toward Troja to the north. On Alle Travel you'll find cruises from multiple Prague operators at different durations and price points.

For a full overview of all boats and steamers available for Prague river cruises, visit the Prague Boats Fleet for River Cruises page on Alle Travel.