Žižkov is the hilly, lived-in side of Praha 3: steep streets, corner pubs and big green parks on the slopes. It's an easy place to find something to do close to home, from playgrounds on the hillsides to indoor spots for rainy afternoons and local events worth the walk. This list gathers what we've checked across the district, and it updates as new plans come up.
A puppet fairy tale from Divadlo b, based on Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid. Evelína can't wait for her fifteenth birthday, when she can look at the human world for the first time, but the wish brings trouble with it.
It is a spoken story performed in Czech, so it suits kids who follow the language and enjoy a classic tale told with puppets.
Hrrr na ně! ("Charge at them!") is a new play for kids about the Hussites, the 15th-century Czech rebels led by Jan Žižka. Two actors from 3D company tell the story with jokes, songs and duels, and kids find out why Žižka's name is still known today. It is played for laughs, not as a history lesson, and it suits kids who can follow Czech.
The first parkour hall in the Czech Republic, built by parkour athletes themselves in 2016. Tall wooden walls and platforms run around the edges of the 504 m² hall, while boxes, bars and movable obstacles in the middle change daily. A soft foam pit lets kids practice flips onto a safe landing.
Coaches run weekly kids' classes, parent-and-child sessions, birthday parties and holiday day camps.
A six-lane bowling alley with QubicaAMF lanes inside the SK Žižkov sports center, with a restaurant and bar beside the lanes and a private room for 20. Two lanes have bumpers, so younger kids can keep the ball out of the gutter.
The whole center is nonsmoking, and it hosts kids' birthday parties with a decorated table, kids' meals, ice cream sundaes and invitations for the guests.
A trampoline hall of more than 400 m² where the beds run wall to wall and tilt up into the walls, so kids can bounce off them. There's a foam pit, 3D dodgeball, basketball hoops, an air track and an interactive climbing wall.
Changing rooms with showers and a café corner with tables give non-jumping parents somewhere to sit.
A fenced playground beside the small pub in Parukářka, the wooded park on Holy Cross hill (vrch svatého Kříže), rebuilt in 2010. Past the summit, a steel slide built into the hillside drops kids to a second playground, and a third sits in the woods along the lower path next to two ping-pong tables. The open hilltop is good for kite flying in fall and looks out to the Žižkov TV Tower.
A 216-meter TV tower with giant crawling babies, fiberglass sculptures by artist David Černý, climbing its steel shafts. Fast elevators run to an observation deck at 93 meters with three cabins: one on the world's great towers, one with bubble chairs that play street sounds from below, and one showing Czech art.
The garden at the base has a minigolf course and, in winter, an ice rink.
Žižkov is the hilly, lived-in side of Praha 3: steep streets, corner pubs and big green parks on the slopes. It's an easy place to find something to do close to home, from playgrounds on the hillsides to indoor spots for rainy afternoons and local events worth the walk. This list gathers what we've checked across the district, and it updates as new plans come up.
A puppet fairy tale from Divadlo b, based on Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid. Evelína can't wait for her fifteenth birthday, when she can look at the human world for the first time, but the wish brings trouble with it.
It is a spoken story performed in Czech, so it suits kids who follow the language and enjoy a classic tale told with puppets.
Hrrr na ně! ("Charge at them!") is a new play for kids about the Hussites, the 15th-century Czech rebels led by Jan Žižka. Two actors from 3D company tell the story with jokes, songs and duels, and kids find out why Žižka's name is still known today. It is played for laughs, not as a history lesson, and it suits kids who can follow Czech.
The first parkour hall in the Czech Republic, built by parkour athletes themselves in 2016. Tall wooden walls and platforms run around the edges of the 504 m² hall, while boxes, bars and movable obstacles in the middle change daily. A soft foam pit lets kids practice flips onto a safe landing.
Coaches run weekly kids' classes, parent-and-child sessions, birthday parties and holiday day camps.
A six-lane bowling alley with QubicaAMF lanes inside the SK Žižkov sports center, with a restaurant and bar beside the lanes and a private room for 20. Two lanes have bumpers, so younger kids can keep the ball out of the gutter.
The whole center is nonsmoking, and it hosts kids' birthday parties with a decorated table, kids' meals, ice cream sundaes and invitations for the guests.
A trampoline hall of more than 400 m² where the beds run wall to wall and tilt up into the walls, so kids can bounce off them. There's a foam pit, 3D dodgeball, basketball hoops, an air track and an interactive climbing wall.
Changing rooms with showers and a café corner with tables give non-jumping parents somewhere to sit.
A fenced playground beside the small pub in Parukářka, the wooded park on Holy Cross hill (vrch svatého Kříže), rebuilt in 2010. Past the summit, a steel slide built into the hillside drops kids to a second playground, and a third sits in the woods along the lower path next to two ping-pong tables. The open hilltop is good for kite flying in fall and looks out to the Žižkov TV Tower.
A 216-meter TV tower with giant crawling babies, fiberglass sculptures by artist David Černý, climbing its steel shafts. Fast elevators run to an observation deck at 93 meters with three cabins: one on the world's great towers, one with bubble chairs that play street sounds from below, and one showing Czech art.
The garden at the base has a minigolf course and, in winter, an ice rink.
