Podolský profil, Natural monument in Podolí, Czech Republic

Podolský profil is a former wall quarry above the Podolí swimming stadium on the right bank of the Vltava, a horseshoe-shaped natural monument of 2.75 ha. Its walls expose about 26 m of Přídolí, Lochkov and Prague formations, showing the Silurian–Devonian boundary in dark platy bituminous limestones.

Francis Zeno recorded the first mentions of limestone quarrying here in 1770, along with the earliest fossils. Extraction ended definitively in 1941, and until the 1950s sheep and goats grazed the slopes. Construction of the Podolí swimming stadium at the quarry base began in 1959; the site was declared a natural monument in 1988.

The site is named after Podolí, the district where the former quarry wall stands above the Podolí swimming stadium. Visitors today walk the slopes where sheep and goats grazed until the 1950s, and the old quarry fence was removed in 2009, opening the monument to the public.

The area sits between 200 and 250 meters in elevation and combines geological exposure with recreational facilities. A swimming stadium in the lower section and park amenities above make it a place where you can combine nature viewing with relaxation.

The digger wasp Pemphredon podagrica was first recorded in the Czech Republic here, a new species for both the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The site also yielded the country's oldest remains of fish, alongside fossils of trilobites and bivalves.