Southern Gardens

The three gardens lined up below the castle's southern wall - Paradise Garden, the Hartig Garden and the Garden on the Ramparts - offer superb views over Malá Strana's rooftops. The two main gardens, Paradise Garden and the Garden on the Ramparts, were landscaped in the 1920s by Slovene architect Jože Plečník, and Paradise Garden has an obelisk marking where the victims of the second defenestration of Prague fell.

You can approach this contiguous bit of greenery from the west via the New Castle Steps into Paradise Garden or from the east via the Old Castle Steps into the Garden on the Ramparts. A third route, the Bull Steps, takes you from the Third Courtyard into the Garden on the Ramparts.