Line C — Metro Praha
Háje – Letňany · 20 stations.
Line at a glance
Line C serves 20 stations between Háje and Letňany. Line C (red) was the first line of the Prague Metro and connects the southern housing estate of Háje with Letňany in the north. It runs through Pankrác, Vyšehrad, I. P. Pavlova and the central transfer hubs of Muzeum, Hlavní nádraží and Florenc, on to Nádraží Holešovice and further north. Transfer to Line A is at Muzeum, to Line B at Florenc. The red line links the main railway station and the northern terminus with a whole string of residential districts.
Stations on line C
Line C opened on 9 May 1974 as the first metro line ever built in Prague and in what was then Czechoslovakia. Vyšehrad station sits on the lower deck of the Nuselský most bridge, high above the Nusle valley. While the central stations from the 1970s bear the hallmarks of that era’s architecture, the northern extensions (Ládví in 2004; Střížkov, Prosek and Letňany in 2008) are thoroughly modern.
Frequently asked questions
Line C runs between Háje and Letňany via Muzeum, with 20 stations in total.
The Háje – Letňany journey takes about 35 minutes, depending on the time of day.
The average interval is roughly 2–10 min. The metro runs 04:34 – 00:18. Check the current service status on dpp.cz before you travel.
A basic 30-minute ticket costs 39 Kč; with a 90-minute transfer ticket (50 Kč) you transfer free between metro lines and onto trams and buses.