Vines have thrived on the southern slope of Vyšehrad since mediaeval times. There used to be several large vineyards here, which gradually disappeared. Vines have been preserved by the wooden viewing pavilion above the Vltava River, formerly part of the Neumanka vineyard estate. Before World War I, the Czech surgeon and radiologist Prof. Rudolf Jedlička had a grand comprehensive healthcare facility built on the estate’s land and on that of the other former vineyards. It included production gardens, as well as a vineyard. The Podolí Institute for the Care of Mother and Child has been located here since the 1950s. The vineyard has almost completely disappeared, but the viewing gazebo in the western part of the garden remains. In 2013, at the gardeners’ private initiative, vines returned here - first below the southern wall, then in 2014 below the eastern part of the castle wall, and in 2016 also on the southern slope: namely the Cabernet Cortis, Kofranka and Saphira varieties. The vineyard is located in the designated green part of the Institute for the Care of Mother and Child, yet is freely open to the public, subject to certain rules of conduct.