Streets of moulded stucco apartment blocks rise to náměstí Míru, where a Spider-Man sequel used the Vinohrady Theatre for a scene.
What Vinohrady looks like
Streets of five and six storey apartment blocks run in straight rows across Vinohrady, cream and ochre stucco fronts with moulded window surrounds and bay fronts. On , one corner block has a pair of sculpted stone figures holding a sunburst relief over a third floor window, a cadastral plaque set into the wall beside it.
and Korunní are the district's two main boulevards, tram tracks laid into granite sett paving, with narrower streets such as Slezská and Francouzská running parallel between them. Vinohradská runs north west to Prague's main railway station, its Art Nouveau hall of sandstone corner towers and a semicircular stained glass window at the edge of the district.
Náměstí Míru sits where several streets meet. 's two brick towers rise at one end. The 's cream stone Art Nouveau front faces it from the other, columns across the facade and bronze winged figures on its corner towers.
On Jiřího z Poděbrad, the has a broad brick tower with a round clock face, standing apart from the historicist blocks around it. Toward Flora the stucco turns plainer, five and six storey blocks from the 1920s and 1930s with shops in the ground floor and iron fencing in front of the newer institutional buildings.
On the southern slopes toward the grid gives way to villa properties behind stone walls and iron railings, steep gabled roofs above the trees. The park keeps a working vineyard on its slope, rows of vines below a wooden viewing pavilion.
Shot in Vinohrady
Prague's own streets carry two produced credits. The historic hall of the main railway station stood in for a Budapest station in the 2011 film Ghost Protocol, and the Vinohrady Theatre played itself for an evening at the opera in a Spider-Man sequel.
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, 2011
Played Budapest Keleti railway station, Budapest, Hungary, present day
The Art Nouveau departures hall of the historic Fanta building was dressed with Hungarian signs and timetables over the real Czech ones for the film's opening sequence, standing in for a station in Budapest. IMF agent Hanaway is confronted here before the nuclear launch codes are stolen. Street View
Spider-Man: Far From Home, 2019
The Vinohrady Theatre
Peter Parker's class is taken for an evening at the opera inside the Vinohrady Theatre during the Prague stop of their European trip. The screen shows the theatre's own Art Nouveau front on náměstí Míru, built in the early 1900s. Street View
Josefstadt's grid of five storey historicist tenement blocks shares stuccoed cream fronts and moulded window surrounds, built across the same late Habsburg decades as Vinohrady. Vienna's blocks run a touch taller with heavier cornices, so a tighter lens keeps the roofline out of a wide shot. Try searching cream stuccoed tenement blocks now.
Erzsébetváros in Budapest, Hungary
Erzsébetváros has the same grid of ornamented apartment blocks from the late Austro-Hungarian decades, bay windows and moulded pediments repeating down each street. Budapest's courtyards run deeper and its stonework leans darker, so close facade shots hold the match better than a full block view. Try searching ornamented apartment blocks now.
Prenzlauer Berg's Gründerzeit tenement rows share Vinohrady's scale and window rhythm, five storeys over a plain ground floor. Berlin's fronts run plainer, less moulding and taller closed courtyards behind, so a decorated corner like Slezská reads more Viennese than Berlin in a wide shot. Try searching Gründerzeit tenement rows now.
