Petřín (327 m) is a hill in the center of Prague, Czech Republic. It rises some 130 m above the left bank of the Vltava River. The hill, almost entirely covered with parks, is a favorite recreational area for the inhabitants of Prague. The hill (in German known as Laurenziberg) is featured prominently in Franz Kafka's early short story "Description of a Struggle" and briefly in Milan Kundera's novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

The summit of the hill is linked to Prague's Malá Strana district by the Petřín funicular, a funicular railway that first operated in 1891.

Main sights

Hunger Wall
Strahov Monastery
Petřín funicular
Petřín lookout tower
Štefánik´s Observatory
Strahov Stadium
Silicon Hill student club of Strahov Dorms
Mirror Maze
Rose Garden
St Lawrence Cathedral
St Michael Church (wooden, transferred from Subcarpathian Ruthenia in 1920s)
Memorial to the victims of Communism