Prague City Tourism Guided Tours

Prague City Tourism is the city's official tourist organisation, and its Guides and Tours team runs walking tours led by licensed guides who take part in regular follow-up training. The team is based at the Old Town Hall on Old Town Square, which is also the starting point for its regular walks. For visitors who want reliable, well-informed guiding without the hard sell of some street tours, it is a straightforward choice.

The best known offer is the tour for first-time visitors, a guided walk through the best-known sites of the historic centre that sets off every day from the Old Town Hall. Regular tours run in English, German, Italian, Spanish and French, and the schedule of public tours is published on the city's tourism website. It is a good way to get your bearings on the first day of a trip, learning the stories behind Old Town Square, the astronomical clock and the streets of the Old Town before exploring on your own.

Private tours are the other main option. You can set the length and language, choose one of the prepared routes from the private tour catalogue or propose your own theme, and the guides cover not only the historic centre but other parts of the city too. This suits families, groups of friends and travellers with a specific interest, such as architecture, Jewish history or the communist period. For organisations, the team arranges tailored programmes for delegations, staff and school groups, including walks, talks and accompanying programmes for conferences.

The team also runs educational walks for children and students, with themed routes linked to subjects such as history, literature, music, civics and art history. Teachers can request a topic that is not on the list.

Book public tours through the schedule on the website, and contact the guides team by email or phone for private and tailored tours, ideally well in advance in the busy seasons. Comfortable shoes are essential, as Prague's cobbles are hard on the feet. The Old Town Hall is a short walk from Staroměstská metro station on line A and Můstek on lines A and B, and combining a walk with a visit to the town hall tower is easy.