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Museums & culture· Hradčany
Prague Castle
The largest ancient castle complex in the world, seat of the Bohemian kings and now of the Czech president. Inside are the cathedral, the Old Royal Palace and Golden Lane.
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Gothic spires, bridges over the Vltava and centuries-old beer halls.
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Museums & culture· Hradčany
St Vitus Cathedral
The Gothic cathedral rising from the castle courtyard, begun in 1344 and finished almost six centuries later. It holds the tomb of St Wenceslas and a stained-glass window by Alphonse Mucha.
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Special place· Old Town
Charles Bridge
The 14th-century stone bridge linking the Old Town to Malá Strana, with Gothic towers at each end and thirty statues of saints lining its parapets.
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Special place· Old Town
Old Town Square
The heart of Prague since the Middle Ages, ringed by pastel facades, the Old Town Hall with its clock and the twin pointed spires of the Týn Church.
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Museums & culture· Old Town
Astronomical Clock
The 1410 astronomical clock on the Old Town Hall tower, one of the oldest still working. Every hour its windows open and the twelve apostles parade past.
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Museums & culture· Josefov
Jewish Quarter (Josefov)
The synagogues of the old ghetto and the Old Jewish Cemetery, with thousands of tilted, stacked headstones under the trees. All are run by the Jewish Museum in Prague.
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Museums & culture· Malá Strana
St Nicholas Church, Malá Strana
Malá Strana's great Baroque church, its green dome and bell tower towering over the district. Inside are frescoes, marble and an organ Mozart once played.
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Viewpoint· Malá Strana
Petřín Hill
A wooded hill above Malá Strana with orchards, a rose garden and an iron lookout tower modelled on the Eiffel Tower. From the top you see every red roof in Prague.
Museums & culture· Old Town
Church of Our Lady before Týn
The Gothic church on Old Town Square, with two 80-metre spires bristling with pinnacles. Its entrance hides behind the houses built in front of it.
Museums & culture· Old Town
Municipal House
Prague's great Art Nouveau building from 1912, with gilded mosaics, rooms decorated by Mucha and a concert hall where Czechoslovak independence was declared.
Viewpoint· Old Town
Powder Tower
One of the Old Town's original gates, a soot-darkened Gothic tower next to the Municipal House. It marks the start of the Royal Route to the Castle, and you can climb it.
Museums & culture· Hradčany
Strahov Monastery
A Premonstratensian monastery high above Hradčany, famous for its two Baroque library halls with painted ceilings and antique globes.
Museums & culture· Hradčany
Loreto Prague
A Baroque pilgrimage shrine near the Castle, with a 27-bell carillon, cloisters and a copy of the Holy House of Loreto in its courtyard.
Special place· New Town
Dancing House
Frank Gehry and Vlado Milunić's building on the Vltava, two towers that seem to dance together, nicknamed Fred and Ginger. There's a rooftop bar with a terrace.
Special place· Malá Strana
John Lennon Wall
A wall in Malá Strana covered in graffiti ever since young Czechs painted Lennon lyrics on it in the 1980s as a protest against the communist regime.
Nature & beaches· Malá Strana
Kampa Island
An island between the Vltava and the Čertovka stream, right below Charles Bridge, with a riverside park, water mills and houses leaning over the canal.
Nature & beaches· Malá Strana
Wallenstein Garden
The Baroque garden of the palace that now houses the Czech Senate, with bronze statues, a pond, free-roaming peacocks and a wall of artificial stalactites.
Viewpoint· Letná
Letná Park
A park on the high northern bank, with the giant metronome where Stalin's statue once stood and a view of the Vltava bridges lined up one after another.
Viewpoint· Vyšehrad
Vyšehrad
A fortress on a rock above the Vltava, with ramparts to walk, the Basilica of St Peter and St Paul and the cemetery where Dvořák and Mucha are buried.
Nature & beaches· Vinohrady
Riegrovy sady
The sloping park of Vinohrady, where locals watch the sun set behind the Castle from the lawn. In summer a big beer garden opens at the top.
Special place· New Town
Wenceslas Square
The New Town's great boulevard, crowned by the National Museum and the equestrian statue of St Wenceslas. The crowds of the 1989 Velvet Revolution gathered here.
Shopping· Old Town
Havelské Market
The Old Town's oldest open-air market, on an arcaded street between Old Town Square and Wenceslas Square, selling fruit, wooden puppets and crafts.
Restaurant· New Town
U Fleků
A brewpub making its own dark lager since 1499, with wood-panelled halls, a garden courtyard and accordion players moving between the long tables.
Restaurant· Old Town
U Zlatého tygra
The Old Town pub where the writer Bohumil Hrabal drank and where Václav Havel took Bill Clinton. It pours Pilsner Urquell in a plain room full of regulars.
Restaurant· Old Town
U Medvídků
A 15th-century beer hall with its own microbrewery, vaulted dining rooms and classic Czech cooking: pork knuckle, goulash and dumplings.
Restaurant· New Town
U Pinkasů
The first pub in Prague to pour Pilsner Urquell, back in 1843, beside the Church of Our Lady of the Snows. Wood-panelled rooms, a vaulted cellar and Czech cooking.
Café· New Town
Café Louvre
A 1902 café on Národní Avenue, with high ceilings, pink walls and billiard tables. Kafka and Einstein were among its regulars.
Café· Old Town
Kavárna Slavia
The Art Deco café opposite the National Theatre, a meeting place for artists and dissidents, with big windows facing the Vltava and the Castle beyond.
Café· Old Town
Grand Café Orient
The world's only Cubist café, on the first floor of the House of the Black Madonna. The lamps, chairs and bar follow its geometric 1912 design.
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Prague is a walking city on both banks of the Vltava: the Old Town and the Jewish Quarter on one side, Charles Bridge in the middle, and Malá Strana below Castle Hill on the other. We've gathered the landmarks, the viewpoints and gardens, and the classic beer halls and cafés. Pick a collection, save it to Google Maps and have it ready on your phone.
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