Explore Prague Castle with various guided tour options: audio guides, live experts, and small-group tours.
Buy TicketsPrague Castle offers self-guided audio tours and small-group expert-led visits. The right choice depends on whether you want narration, conversation or contemplation. See our visitors guide for help choosing, and the best time to visit page if you want a quieter tour experience.
Find the right format for your group and your pace
The official 3-hour audio tour in 11 languages — English, Czech, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Polish, Japanese, Korean and Mandarin. Covers all four Basic Tour interiors plus the courtyards. 350 CZK add-on. Best value for first-time visitors.
Up to 15 people with a licensed art-historian guide, 2.5 hours covering St. Vitus Cathedral, the Old Royal Palace, the Basilica of St. George and Golden Lane. Skip-the-line entry included. Q&A throughout — your guide can go deeper on Charles IV, the Defenestration, or Kafka depending on what interests the group.
A child-friendly version with treasure-hunt stops, stories about knights, kings and alchemists in Rudolf II's court, and a kid-paced 2-hour route. Best for ages 7–13 and noticeably better than the standard audio guide for keeping younger visitors engaged.
A 4-hour combination tour: morning at the castle with a guide, walk down the Old Castle Steps to Malá Strana, cross Charles Bridge, finish in the Old Town. The classic Prague half-day with one guide throughout.
For a first visit, the audio guide is the best value by a wide margin. It is the only audio tour licensed inside the cathedral and the Old Royal Palace, covers all four Basic Tour interiors with about three hours of content in 11 languages, and lets you linger when something — the silver tomb of St. John of Nepomuk, the Mucha window, the Renaissance ceiling of Vladislav Hall — catches you for longer than you expected.
If you want context and a real human voice, the small-group expert tour is the right choice. A good guide will explain how Charles IV's ambitions for Prague as the capital of the Holy Roman Empire shaped the cathedral, why Rudolf II filled the castle with alchemists and astronomers (Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler both worked here), and what really happened on 23 May 1618 when two imperial governors were thrown out of a Bohemian Chancellery window — triggering the Thirty Years' War. Families with children should pick the family tour over the standard audio guide; it is paced for shorter attention spans and uses the castle's knights-and-alchemists history to keep younger visitors engaged.
All tours start at the Matthias Gate on Hradčanské náměstí. Arrive 15 minutes early to clear security — being late means missing the first courtyards and the Castle Guard introduction.
Languages, group sizes, and what is included