Between Two Totalitarian Regimes

Duration: approx. 3 hrs (can be adapted to your time and interest)

Price: from 3.300 CZK (for 2 people)

Can be tailored to your schedule and interests

(The tour can be extended to include a visit to the Museum of Communism and legendary Café.)

This private tour offers an authentic journey through Czech modern history. The walk will take you to places and stories connected with two totalitarian regimes that fundamentally shaped the fate of Czechoslovakia and its people.

You will learn about the heroism and sacrifices of the Czechoslovak resistance during the Nazi occupation, as well as the harsh reality of life under the communist regime. We will visit the unique crypt of the Church of Saints Cyril and Methodius – the National Memorial to the Heroes of the Heydrich Terror, where the parachutists hid after the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich and where one of the most powerful stories in Czech history unfolded.

The tour highlights the historical continuity of resistance against oppression – from the student protests against the Nazi occupation in 1939 to the student march in November 1989, violently suppressed by the police, which became the catalyst for the Velvet Revolution and the fall of the communist regime in the country.

You will also become familiar with the fascinating life story of Václav Havel – a key figure of the Czech underground, a political prisoner, an internationally acclaimed playwright, and the first democratic president after the fall of communism. By arrangement, this part of the tour can also take place in a café frequently visited by Havel and other intellectuals and artists.

I will be happy to offer you not only professional historical insight, but also personal and family memories connected to these events.