Petřín funicular, Funicular railway in Malá Strana, Prague, Czech Republic

The Petřín funicular is a single-track ground cable railway with a passing loop in the middle, running 509 m from Újezd station in Malá Strana to Petřín station in the Strahov part of Hradčany, with the Nebozízek stop halfway. Its fourth-generation cars, built by Doppelmayr/Garaventa and designed by Anna Marešová, carry 120 passengers and have a cream upper body, a teal lower front panel, nine roof vents and the Prague Public Transit Company logo.

The funicular opened on 25 July 1891, built for the Jubilee Provincial Exhibition and pulled by water ballast; it closed in 1914. A rebuilt electric line opened on 5 June 1932, and after a 1965 landslide it ran again from 15 June 1985. Service stopped on 13 September 2024 and resumed on 22 September 2026 after refurbishment.

The middle stop Nebozízek takes its name from a legend about a son of Charles IV who asked for a schnitzel but could not pronounce the Czech "ř", saying "nebozízek" instead of "nebo řízek" ("or schnitzel"); the word itself means little gimlet. The funicular is line LD in the Prague Integrated Transport, internally numbered 49 since 2017.

The funicular runs daily from 7 am to 10:15 pm at ten-minute intervals, with stops at Újezd, Nebozízek and Petřín. Thirty- and ninety-minute Prague Integrated Transport tickets are not accepted; a ticket valid for 24 hours or more, or a one-way funicular ticket, is needed.

The middle stop, Nebozízek, takes its name from a legend about a son of Charles IV: asking for a schnitzel, he could not pronounce the Czech "ř", and "nebo řízek" ("or schnitzel") came out as Nebozízek, meaning little gimlet.