Petřín view-tower was built for the State Jubilee Exhibition
in 1891 ex parte of the Czech Touring Club as a free copy of the Eiffel
Tower (300 meters high) on the plans of the engineers František
Prášil and Julius Souček. The foundations were made in the deep of
11 meters, the tower is 63, 5 meters high and the steel construction
of the view tower weights 175 tons. The basic part of the construction
is the octagonal tube with an elevator that serves now for the disabled
people. Around there are placed two spiral stairs with 299 steps (one
for the walk upstairs and one for the walk downstairs). The view tower
has two view terraces, the upper one is in the height of 55 meters, in the
basement is placed the permanent
exposition „Jára Cimrman,
génius, který se neproslavil"(Jára
Cimrman - the genius that didn't
became famous). In the sixties of
the last century at the top of the
view over there have been placed
the transmitting aerials for the TV
sending. Since September 1979 the
tower passed the reconstruction
and was re-opened in May 1991 on
the occasion of the Second Jubilee
Exhibition. In July 1870 in connection with the construction of t he view tower
there was also presented the project of the Terrestrial Cable Railway.
In January 1891 was the line traced, the trees close to the Station Nebozízek
were cut down and thanks to the Ringhoffer factory that provided the wagons,
went the first passengers up to the Petřín hill on 25 July 1891 at 15
o'clock. The imposing reconstruction of the cable railway was done in the
years 1983-1985, the final length is 510 meters and you can use here the
Prague mass transportation tickets.
If you got hungry at the Petřín hill, you can visit the Restaurant
Nebozízek at the first station of the cable railway. The restaurant got
its name after the lisping son of the Austrian Emperor who ordered
goose or snitzel (zizek) ". It could also get its name after the way that
is curled as a gimlet. The restaurant started its work in 1763.
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