Originally constructed during the tenth century to serve as the royal governmental seat for Prince Boleslav II, Prague´s Upper Castle later became the governmental seat for all of the princes of Přemysl family.
Eliška Přemysl spent the final years of here life here.
At the Upper Castle, a king´s rise to power began-here the crowning ceremony was conducted.
In the seventeenth century, the castle was remodeled to look as it appears today as a baroque fortress. In the second decade of the nineteenth century, it served as a fortress.

The Upper Castle cemetery became the resting place for many famous individuals.

INFORMATION: http://www.praha-vysehrad.cz