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Few cities have as much to offer as Prague, so it can be difficult to decide how best to spend your time, but the Eyewitness Travel Guide helps you to get the most from your stay. This guide will introduce you to Prague by locating the city geographically, setting modern Prague in its historical context. Learn about the city’s main attractions and sights including a feature on the River Vltava. Discover other places around Prague with the day trips listed in the section Prague Area by Area. It is the carefully researched tips for hotels and restaurants, shops, markets, cafes, bars, entertainment and sporting events that separates this guide from the rest. Let the maps, photography and detailed illustration of the Eyewitness Travel Guide show you what others only tell you.

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Who but Rick Steves can tell travelers the best way to see the spires of Prague, castles of Bohemia, and villages of Moravia? With Rick Steves’ Prague and the Czech Republic, travelers can experience the best of everything this city has to offer — economically and hassle-free. Completely revised and updated, this guide includes: opinionated coverage of both famous and lesser-known sights, friendly places to eat and sleep, suggested day plans, walking tours and trip itineraries, and clear instructions for smooth travel anywhere by car, train, or foot. America’s #1 authority on travel to Europe, Rick’s time-tested recommendations for safe and enjoyable travel in Europe have been used by millions of Americans in search of their own unique European travel experience.
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About the Author
Rick Steves is on a mission: to help make European travel accessible and meaningful for Americans. Rick has spent 100 days every year since 1973 exploring Europe. He’s researched and written 24 travel guidebooks and hosts the public television series Rick Steves’ Europe, now in its seventh season. He also organizes and leads tours of Europe and offers an information-packed website (www.ricksteves.com). Rick lives in Edmonds, WA, just north of Seattle, with his family.
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“Don’t leave home without STREETWISE” — New York Times

“STREETWISE is an absolute travel essential” — Travel & Leisure

‘Don’t leave home without STREETWISE.’ –The New York Times

‘STREETWISE is an absolute travel essential.’ –Travel + Leisure Magazine

Streetwise Prague Map - Laminated Center City Street Map of Prague, Czech Republic - Folding pocket size travel map with integrated metro map featuring lines & stations - trams, streetcar routes

This map covers the following areas:
Main Prague Map 1:10,000
Prague Metro Map

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Since the early Middle Ages, Prague has been considered one of Europe’s most beautiful cities with its hundreds of spires reaching into the sky. Despite a history filled with violent upheavals and bitter occupations, Prague remains a vibrant city known for its world-famous architecture, culture, historic monuments, and natural beauty.
Experience the magnificent beauty and often-tragic history of this ‘Golden City’ through seventy pairs of remarkable photographs.
Stand atop Prague’s most familiar monument, the Charles Bridge (completed in 1400), for a magnificent vista of the city; a fascinating inset photo illustrates the destruction of the bridge after a flood in 1890.
Visit Golden Lane, home to the city’s goldsmiths in the 17th century and later to author Franz Kafka.
Marvel at then-and-now images of treasures like St. Vitus’ Cathedral (it’s first stone was laid in 1344 by Emperor Charles IV!) and St. George’s Basilica (founded in the 10th century).
Today, Prague is a favorite destination for tourists from all over the world. This is a tour you won’t want to miss!

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Written by a Czech local, Frommer’s Prague and the Best of the Czech Republic has all the practical details and candid advice you need to explore one of Europe’s loveliest and most exciting countries. We’ve reviewed the very best places to stay and dine in Prague, from historic art noveau hotels to intimate Castle District guesthouses, from grand cafes to ethnic restaurants and local pubs. With Frommer’s in hand, it’s easy to explore all the sights, whether you want to stroll the cobbled streets of the Old Town and take in its architectural masterpieces, wander the old Jewish neighborhood, tour the Castle complex, or check out the city’s cutting-edge galleries and nightclubs. In addition, the guide details side trips that explore the best of the nearby countryside. Chapters also highlight the best places to visit in the regions of Bohemia and Moravia, including Bohemia’s spa towns, the beer-lovers’ mecca of Plzen, and the country’s stunning castles.

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Frommer’s. The best trips start here.

Experience a place the way the locals do. Enjoy the best it has to offer.

• Details on all the Czech Republic has to offer, including Prague’s famous castle, neighborhood walking tours, and Bohemia’s best spas.

• Outspoken opinions on what’s worth your time and what’s not.

• Exact prices, so you can plan the perfect trip whatever your budget.

• Off-the-beaten-path experiences and undiscovered gems, plus new takes on top attractions.

Find great deals and book your trip at Frommers.com

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‘The Cadogan series of guidebooks is superb – comprehensive, intelligent, practical and well-written’ – Washington Times (US)
‘Beautifully written, evocative and informative’ – The Times (UK)

‘Original and insightful essays’ – The Daily Telegraph (UK)

Now fully redesigned, this new edition of Cadogan’s unique three-city guide contains the most up-to-the-minute practical information and listings, along with color photographs and maps. Vienna, Prague and Budapest are growing in popularity as city break destinations thanks to their beautiful city centers and increasing number of trendy restaurants and hotels. Prague offers the ultimate romantic getaway with its stunning medieval Old Town, cobbled streets, gothic churches and magnificent castle, the largest ancient castle in the world. The center of Vienna is UNESCO-listed and is a cultural paradise, featuring several excellent museums, the stately Imperial Palace that once served as the residence to the powerful Hapsburg dynasty, and Sigmund Freud’s house. Meanwhile Budapest, a veritable fountain of medicinal waters, is home to dozens of swimming pools and bathing halls dating back to the Turkish Occupation and a wonderful place to relax in a spa after all that sight-seeing and shopping.

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The city of Prague has inspired a lot of fine literature, and Paul Wilson has done the English-speaking world a vast favor by compiling this anthology of 23 Prague stories. There are classics by the likes of Franz Kafka, Jan Neruda, and Ivan Klima, and lesser-known works making their English-translation debuts. There are autobiographical pieces, fiction, legend, stories from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, tales from the Soviet regime, and contemporary pieces from the Czech Republic. Ivan Klima’s epilogue is titled "The Spirit of Prague," and after reviewing Prague’s history–cultural and political–he concludes that paradox is at Prague’s heart, and irony and ridicule are its primary tools. Both devices are employed deftly throughout Wilson’s anthology, providing clever, lyrical, and moving snippets of Prague’s complex reality.

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Novelist Ivan Klima explains in “The Spirit of Prague” that his native city has inspired people’s creativity by the blending of three cultures that lived side by side for decades, even centuries: Czech, German and Jewish. It is also a city in which “the best people in the country were often imprisoned, tortured or executed.” Czech writers deal with such injustices with a subversive sense of humor. It shines in Bohumil Hrabal’s description of “The Hotel Pariz,” Josef Skvorecky’s rendition of President Clinton’s sax playing at the Reduta jazz club, Egon Erwin Kisch’s “The Case of the Washerwoman,” and Jaroslav Hasek’s sendup of The Society of Teetotalers. To see human comedy in the midst of great suffering allowed the spirit of Prague to prevail, and that is the genius of the authors presented here. These 24 stories, arranged by the areas of the city they illuminate, are a literary banquet for readers who already know and love “the city of a hundred spires.” As such, they are designed, according to editor Wilson, to reveal “a deeper truth about the psyche of the people of Prague than perhaps direct description could.” Also included are biographies of contributors and translators and a historical chronology of Prague.
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The Rough Guide to Prague is the definitive guidebook to the Czech capital. A 24-page, full-colour introduction gives an inspiring insight into many of Prague’’s highlights, from the spectacular castle complex to the cobbled back streets and secret gardens of Mala Strana. The guide includes extensive and reliable reviews of hotels and restaurants in every price range, plus the low-down on the best places to sample Czech beer. There are comprehensive accounts of day-trips to the medieval town of Kutna Hora and other nearby attractions. The guide also includes thorough and informed commentary on Prague’’s history, politics and culture, plus detailed maps and plans for every region.

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Rob Humphries

Rob Humphries

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Recognized the world over by frequent flyers and armchair travelers alike, Eyewitness Travel Guides are the most colorful and comprehensive guides on the market. With beautifully commissioned photographs and spectacular 3-D aerial views revealing the charm of each destination, these amazing travel guides show what others only tell.

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Averaging 281 pints of ale per capita per year, the Czech Republic is far and away the world’s leader in beer consumption. As this handy guidebook ofbeer shows, Czechs are equally expert in brewing beer as well. Listings and analyses are provided of all the major Czech beers as well as lesser-known brews that are only available within the country, from the highly alcoholic X-33 to the unique, nonpasteurized version of Pilsner Urquell. A guide is also offered to the top pubs, breweries, and drinking holes across the nation, as well as to such unique locations as the Chodovar brewery, which offers full-body beer baths, and the Pelhrimov brewery, which hosts free, open-air rock concerts. Filled to the brim with history, trivia, information on inns and accommodations, and extensive backstories, this is an essential resource for beer lovers and world travelers alike.

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Evan Rail is a food and drink writer who regularly contributes to The New York Times and the author of Prague Post Dining Guide.

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