Vyšehrad tickets: the fortress is free, the basilica is 180 CZK and the Gorlice underground tour is 330 CZK

💡 The Short Version: Vyšehrad is free to walk all year: the park, the ramparts and the views cost nothing. The Basilica of St Peter and St Paul is 180 CZK, and the Casemates to Gorlice tour is 330 CZK (295 CZK online), 45 to 60 minutes underground to the hall that holds six original Baroque statues from Charles Bridge. The information centre at the Leopold Gate is open daily, 10:00 to 12:00 and 13:00 to 18:00. Go by metro line C to Vyšehrad. Or book a tour: the 2.5-hour Vyšehrad tour with Gorlice and ticketsad (from £42.60, GetYourGuide) includes the basilica, the casemates and a metro ticket.

The tickets, compared

Prices are from the Vyšehrad monument’s tour page and the basilica’s own ticket page, converted at about CZK 28.8 to the pound. The basilica belongs to the Royal Collegiate Chapter of St Peter and Paul, not to the city, so it sets its own prices. GetYourGuide prices are its lowest “from” prices.

• Free entry to the basilica: children under 6, holders of a ZTP card, families with children at weekends, and over-65s on weekdays from 15:00. Worshippers who come to pray enter free, but not to visit.
• Tickets are online for the basilica and for the casemate tours, and the information centre at the Leopold Gate sells tour tickets.
• The Rotunda of St Martin and the Basilica of St Lawrence opened in July and August 2026 at 50 CZK each.
• Under 6 is free at the casemate tours, and disabled visitors enter free.

The Basilica of St Peter and St Paul at Vyšehrad. Photo: VitVit, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

How to buy

• The basilica: buy online on the basilica’s ticket page.
• The underground: buy on the Vyšehrad monument’s site for 295 CZK, 35 CZK below the price at the information centre, or at the Leopold Gate. The tour starts at the Brick Gate, V Pevnosti 46/1, and the guide speaks Czech and English. A digital guide in other languages is available.
• Tour size: at most 30 people, and the tour is wheelchair accessible. There is nowhere to leave belongings before the tour.
• A free audio guide: the Vyšehrad digital guide app has free routes, including the best of Vyšehrad, a walk along the ramparts, religious heritage and the underground.

Tours worth paying for

The operator’s own tours are the cheapest way underground. Prices are GetYourGuide’s lowest “from” prices, per person, and the operator’s own.

The operator’s Casemates to Gorlice tour

330 CZK adult, 295 CZK online · 45 to 60 minutes · Czech and English

The Casemates to Gorlice tour starts at the Brick Gate, with an exhibition on the fortress, and takes in the oldest casemates and Gorlice. The ticket also covers the exhibition The Rise and Fall of Vyšehrad, in the Powder Magazine in the Vyšehrad Gardens. There are three more underground tours: the Martin Casemates, the Podolí Casemates, which were air-raid shelters, and the casemates to the redoubt, which look across to Prague Castle.

A guided walk with the tickets

From £42.60 · 4.5 stars from 138 reviews · 2.5 hours

Prague: 2.5-Hour Vyšehrad Castle with Gorlice and Ticketsad is run in English by Fun in Prague. It meets in front of the National Museum on Wenceslas Square, takes the metro to Vyšehrad, and covers the park, the basilica, the cemetery, the ramparts and the Gorlice casemates. The metro ticket, the basilica ticket, the casemates ticket and the guide are included. The tour names the graves of Dvořák, Smetana, Mucha and Čapek. Done on your own, the basilica and the underground tour cost 475 to 510 CZK, against about 1,230 CZK for the tour with a metro ticket and a guide. Free cancellation.

What to see

Allow 2.5 hours for the basilica, the cemetery and the underground, which is the length of the guided tour that covers all three. Go in this order:

1. The ramparts and the park. Free, with views over the city: the fortress stands on a rock above the Vltava. The monument’s free audio route, “Walk along the Ramparts”, follows them.
2. The Basilica of St Peter and St Paul. Founded by the first Czech king, Vratislav, who set up a church chapter here. The present building, with its two neo-Gothic towers, is by Josef Mocker, and the towers are 58 m high. Inside are Art Nouveau paintings, the Gothic Vyšehrad Madonna, the reliquary of St Valentine and a Romanesque sarcophagus. The carillon plays daily from 11:00 to 21:00.
3. Vyšehrad Cemetery and the Slavín tomb. Beside the basilica, inside Neo-Renaissance arcades. The Slavín, topped by a winged Genius of the Nation, has a crypt holding forty prominent Czechs.
4. The Gorlice underground. The casemates run for more than a kilometre in four sections. Gorlice is the largest underground hall in historic Prague, built by a mistake of the fortress’s builder, and it now holds six original Baroque statues from Charles Bridge. The oldest casemates hold a “foundation brick” from 1654.

Prague and the Castle on the skyline, seen from Vyšehrad. Photo: Ввласенко, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.

What to skip: the underground tour if you have only an hour. The ramparts, the park and the basilica are the visit, and the tour is another 45 to 60 minutes and 330 CZK.

Hours, rules and getting there

• No visits to the basilica during services, weddings, funerals and concerts.
• Toilets: next to the information centre and in front of the basilica, daily 10:00 to 18:00, 20 CZK.
• Rules: keep dogs on a lead, and do not ride bicycles, scooters or roller skates, climb on the walls, or light fires or barbecues.
• Children: a playground themed on old Czech legends in the Na Hradbách area, and Sunday fairy tales at the Purkrabství.
• Getting there: metro line C to Vyšehrad station, or trams from Rašínovo nábřeží and Albertov. The complex is a pedestrian zone, and paid parking is in front of the Táborská gate. Prague public transport has the fares.
• Access: the complex is barrier-free, though some buildings and tour routes are not.
• From the river: Prague Steamboats’ hour cruise in Vltava river cruises compared turns round at Vyšehrad.

The basilica and the casemates are free on the Prague Visitor Pass. Prague Castle is the other fortress on the river, and the artillery redoubt in the casemates looks across to it. The Charles Bridge towers guide covers the bridge whose statues stand in Gorlice, and the Petřín Tower and funicular guide the other hill with a view. The Old Town sights are in the Old Town Hall and Astronomical Clock guide and the Jewish Quarter tickets guide, and where to eat in Prague lists U Kroka, a family restaurant at Vyšehrad. For the rest of the city’s bookings, see what to book before you go in Prague. 3 days in Prague and Prague in one day build the plan round the bookings. To sleep nearby, where to stay in Prague compares the areas.