White Mountain

The 381m-high White Mountain – more of a gentle hillock, actually – on the western outskirts of Prague was the site of the 1620 collapse of Protestant military forces that ended Czech independence for almost 300 years. The only reminder of the battle is a small memorial cairn located on a mound in the middle of a field, with the roof of the Star Summer Palace poking above the forest to the northeast. Take the tram to the end of the line, then continue west past the Church of Our Lady Victorious (kostel Panny Maria Vítězná), an early-18th-century celebration of the Habsburg victory at White Mountain, and turn right; the field is visible up ahead.