About zoo

About zoo
Feeding of the male lion Jamvan will begin at 3 pm. Photo: Petr Hamerník, Prague Zoo

As is now traditional, Prague Zoo will celebrate the anniversary of its opening on Czech Statehood Day—and this time it will be its 95th! On Monday 28 September, the zoo has prepared a special celebratory programme with distinguished guests. Costumes, historic vehicles and stylish newsboys handing out vintage newspapers will...

History

The history of Prague Zoo goes all the way back to the year 1881, when, on the occasion of the wedding of Crown Prince Rudolf and Princess Stephanie of Belgium, Count Sweerts-Sporck published an open letter in the newspapers calling for the establishment of a zoological garden in Prague.


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