Visiting Prague

Vysehrad Pantheon Slavin

Vysehrad Cemetery opened in 1869 and you can find there around 600 graves and memorials of the country’s most famous individuals. In the center of the cemetery is a tribute to all of the country’s heroes, a masterpiece called the Pantheon or “Slavin”, designed by Antonin Wiehl in 1894 in the period of National Revival in Prague. It contains around 50 of the country’s greatest artists such as Alfons Mucha, painter, Josef Vaclav Myslbek, sculptor and Josef Gočár, architect, Ladislav Saloun, sculptor, Bohumil Kafka and others. You will see the motto above the hall of fame - “Though dead, they still speak.” Beside Slavin or Pantheon you will discover artwork of the markers, tombstones and memorials to the two composers, Antonin Dvorak and Bedrich Smetana and the writers Karel Čapek, Jan Neruda and Božena Nĕmcová.

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