Seminary Garden, Public garden in Malá Strana, Prague, Czech Republic.
The Seminary Garden is a public garden in Malá Strana with extensive paths and slopes spreading across a large area. It is planted with many fruit trees and offers views from various spots toward the Old Town, Lesser Town, and Castle District.
A medieval vineyard founded on the initiative of Charles IV was replaced in the first half of the 17th century by a walled garden belonging to the Discalced Carmelite monastery at Our Lady of Victory. The monastery was dissolved in 1784 under Joseph II's reforms, and the garden passed to the archbishop's seminary in the Clementinum. In 1927 the city acquired it in exchange for land in Dejvice, and on 1 May 1930 it opened to the public.
The garden's name comes from the Archbishop's Seminary in the Clementinum, which owned it after the Carmelite monastery was dissolved in 1784. In the lower part stands a statue of poet Jan Neruda, and nearby is a fountain called "U žabiček" with a group of the Revilliod siblings, grandchildren of T. G. Masaryk.
The paths are suitable for walking, cycling, and strollers, with several entrances and cable car access connecting to other areas. The terrain is hilly in places, so some sections are steeper than others.
Above the small pond below the Petřínské terasy restaurant grows a field maple (Acer campestre), the only protected tree of its species in Prague. The garden also holds a Lípa republiky planted on 28 October 1968 by the nature protection corps of the National Museum society.
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