The American Embassy in Prague is located near the Lesser Town Square (Malostranské náměstí). The yellow and purple path has the same length. The purple one may be a little more scenic, since you walk around the church of St. Nicholas and at the end of the square turn left into a nice gateway.
At the end of the passage, there is a police patrol on the street that inspects cars and a bus that transports people to the Hospital of the Sisters of Mercy of St. Borromeo. However, there is not too much traffic because the street ends on the hillside of Petřín Hill.
The way from the Lesser Town Square is the shortest way to the embassy. If you have enough time and are not in a rush to the embassy for some urgent reason, the route from Kampa Island is also very nice.
The Kampa Island route begins on Jiřího Červeného street, the shortest street in Prague and named after Jiří Červený, a cabaret showman, writer, and composer – and the father of the world-famous opera singer Soňa Červená, who still (aged 93) performs on many stages today, including our National Theater.
Hroznová ulice (the Grape Street) will take you to the bridge over Čertovka and Velkopřevorský mlýn (the Grand Prior Water Mill), where the water sprite sits. (Water sprite, “vodník” in Czech, is one of the basic figures of Czech fairy tales.)
Finally, Prokopská street will take you to Karmelitská street (with the streetcars) and after a few steps to the right you will see the street Tržiště (Marketplace Street) and the Embassy is in sight.
“Because breathing is my life, I dare not stop breathing.” – John Lennon
This quote from John Lennon has been written on the wall of the Big Prior Square for many years. In the late 1970s, that wall became known as the Lennon Wall. For us who grew up ten years before the end of socialism, it was a very important place at the time. Today, it is not a place for expressing defiance (visitors can purchase spray paint and add their own art/graffiti to the wall) but the nostalgia remains.
By the way – if you would go from the US Embassy to the right toward Tržiště street, you`ll reach the restaurant Baráčnická rychta. Today it’s a normal, nice pub with good food, but in the days of the Lennon wall and its “rebellious glory”, there were jazz concerts every Friday. (The poster is exactly 40 years old…)
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