Prague Through Music: Live Guitar Folk, Dvořák, Smetana

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About this activity

Some people visit Prague. Others actually experience it.

Walk through the Old Town with a local guitarist who plays the songs this city was built on — live, in the streets, at the exact spots where they were written, banned, and sung in defiance. No lecture. No headset. Just music, stories, and a city that sounds like nowhere else.

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At a glance

Duration: 1 h 45 min
Confirmation: Instant confirmation
Ticket: Mobile or paper ticket accepted
Group: Up to 15 people
People per booking: 1–15
Guide: English, Spanish
Operated by: Marek Prague Guide

Ages: Infants (0–3 years) · Adults (4–99 years)

What is included

Included

Included: Professional guide in English and Spanish
Included: Stories of Mozart, Smetana & Dvořák at the spots where they actually lived and worked
Included: The song of the Velvet Revolution performed live
Included: Live guitar performances at key stops throughout the tour
Included: Reduta Jazz Club discount for after the tour
Included: A protest song performed live on Charles Bridge — written the night Soviet tanks rolled into Prague
Included: Speaker playback of Smetana's Vltava & Dvořák's New World Symphony

Not included

Not included: Personal expenses
Not included: Estates theatre entrance fee

Itinerary

Theatre Des Etats

10 min Admission not included

One of the best-preserved opera houses in Europe, unchanged since Mozart stood on its stage. Marek tells the story of how Prague and Mozart fell for each other — and why Vienna never quite forgave the city for it.
Staromestske namesti

30 min

The beating heart of Prague, and the place where Smetana founded his music school in the 1840s. This is where the Czech National Revival took shape — a movement that used music, language, and art to keep a nation alive under foreign rule. You'll hear Smetana's Vltava here, the piece that became the sound of Czech identity itself.
Rudolfinum

20 min

Home of the Czech Philharmonic, and the stage where Dvořák conducted world premieres. We stop outside to hear how a butcher's son from a small Bohemian village became one of the most celebrated composers in history — and what he left behind in Prague. His New World Symphony plays here, where it belongs.
Charles Bridge

15 min

Six hundred years old, lined with baroque saints, stretching across the Vltava. Here Marek plays Bratříčku zavírej vrátka — Karel Kryl's song written the night Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968. One guitar, one bridge, one song that said everything a nation wasn't allowed to say out loud
The John Lennon Wall

15 min

In 1980, the night after John Lennon was shot, Praguers came here in the dark to paint his face on the wall and write song lyrics in the stone — while Communist secret police watched from across the square. Marek plays Lennon here. And then Modlitba pro Martu — the song broadcast on Czechoslovak radio the night the Soviet tanks arrived in 1968, and played again twenty years later when the Velvet Revolution finally succeeded. The tour ends here, with the two songs that bookend the most important chapter in Czech modern history.

Meeting point and pickup

Everyone meets at the meeting point.

Meeting point

Behind Estates Theatre

End point

John Lennon Wall

Cancellation

Free cancellation

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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The operator may cancel if the weather does not allow it; you then get another date or your money back.
The operator may cancel if too few people book; you then get another date or your money back.