Prague Dark Tours — Executions, Communism and Cold Case Crimes
# Prague's Dark Side Is Written in Blood, Secrets and Stone
In Prague, Czech Republic, a walking tour called Prague Dark Side Tour: True Crimes, Murders, Prostitution & Drugs takes visitors through centuries of executions, Communist repression and never-solved crimes — and has been listed as an active, bookable experience on Viator and TripAdvisor with 2026 updates.
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Where the Tour Begins
The tour departs from the Prague Underground and Ghost Tours ticket office at Malé Náměstí Square Nr. 459/11 — inside a passage roughly 20 metres to the right of the Black Angel bar, in Prague 1. The square sits at the heart of the Old Town, and that location is no accident. This part of the city has witnessed public executions, underworld crime and political violence across five centuries.
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The Executioner of Old Town Square
The tour's opening chapter belongs to Jan Mydlář, Prague's most famous professional executioner. His story is anchored at Old Town Square (Staroměstské náměstí), where public executions were once staged as civic spectacle. On 21 June 1621, 27 leaders of the Bohemian anti-Habsburg uprising were executed here in a single morning — one of the most notorious mass executions in Central European history. The tour covers both the mechanics of that day and the eventual abolition of the death sentence in Bohemia, tracing the role of the executioner through the city's legal and moral evolution.
