History

The history of our house

The building that now houses The Viaduct Suites & More was built around 1892 as a coaching inn. It stands on the border of Karlín and Nové Město, right next to the Negrelli Viaduct, which gave the hotel its name.

A coaching inn

Until the Second World War the building served as a coaching inn for travellers and their horses.

After the war it was converted into rental flats, and the courtyard housed a car repair workshop.

Entrance of The Viaduct hotel in Prague-Karlín
The original cast-iron staircase at The Viaduct hotel
A new beginning

We bought the house in 2015 and started the project, followed by a full renovation. We opened the hotel in January 2023. The building was not in good shape before the renovation, yet we wanted to keep everything that had a story to tell.

What we preserved
  • the cast-iron staircase and the shared interior spaces of the house
  • the plaster sculptures in the passage
  • the original horse troughs and feeders in the courtyard walls

You can see them up close on a walk through the courtyard and up the staircase.

Hotel courtyard paved with granite setts
Why “Viaduct”

The hotel is named after the Negrelli Viaduct next door. It was built in 1846–1849, and trains have crossed it since 1 June 1850. After Charles Bridge it is the second-oldest bridge still standing over the Vltava in Prague, and until 1910 it was the longest bridge in Europe. It was extensively reconstructed in 2017–2020.

Karlín

Karlín was founded in 1817 as Prague’s first suburb, “behind the Poříčská Gate”. Our street still carries the name of the gate. The 2002 flood submerged almost all of Karlín, but the district was rebuilt and is now one of the liveliest in Prague.

Key dates

1846–1850 – the Negrelli Viaduct is built
around 1892 – the house is built as a coaching inn
after World War II – rental flats, a car repair workshop in the courtyard
2015 – we buy the house and start the project
January 2023 – the hotel opens

Irena and Michael

When we built this hotel, we wanted to put into it all the experience we had gained from developing and running our earlier properties.

Find directions on our Neighbourhood page and our rooms on the Suites page.