How To Use This E-Book Getting Around the e-Book This Pocket Guide e-book is designed to give you inspiration and planning advice for your visit to Prague, and is also the perfect on-the-ground companion for your trip. The guide begins with our selection of Top 10 Attractions, plus a Perfect Itinerary feature to help you plan unmissable experiences. The Introduction and History chapters paint a vivid cultural portrait of Prague, and the Where to Go chapter gives a complete guide to all the sights worth visiting. You will find ideas for activities in the What to Do section, while the Eating Out chapter describes the local cuisine and gives listings of the best restaurants. The Travel Tips offer practical information to help you plan your trip. Finally, there are carefully selected hotel listings.
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Table of Contents Pragues Top 10 Attractions
Top Attraction #1 iStock Astronomical Clock. Its fascinating rituals celebrate the passing of time.
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Top Attraction #2 iStock Wenceslas Square. Dominated by the iconic statue of the saint. For more information, .
Top Attraction #3 Shutterstock St Vitus Cathedral. Prepare to be dazzled by its awe-inspiring facade.
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Top Attraction #4 Getty Images Sternberg Palace. Houses a fine collection of European Masters. For more information, .
Top Attraction #5 Nrodn divadlo National Theatre. The home of the National Opera and Ballet.
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Top Attraction #6 Apa Publications Loreto. Fine frescoes adorn one of Bohemias most important centres of pilgrimage. For more information, .
Top Attraction #7 Apa Publications Jewish Quarter. Monuments remember a vanished community.
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Top Attraction #8 iStock Charles Bridge. A Gothic masterpiece, lined with beautiful sculptures, atmospheric at any time of day. For more information, .
Top Attraction #9 iStock Our Lady before Tyn. The churchs Gothic spires soar into the sky.
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Top Attraction #10 iStock Old Royal Palace. The spectacular dimensions of Vladislav Hall seem out of this world. For more information, .
A Perfect Day in Prague
9.00am Breakfast If you have skipped breakfast at your hotel grab some coffee and something to eat at the charming Cukrkvalimonda caf (Lzesk 7) in the Lesser Quarter.
10.00am St Nicholas Just around the corner, on Malostransk Square, is the Church of St Nicholas, a Lesser Quarter landmark.
This has one of the finest Baroque interiors in the city, glittering with gold leaf after renovation.
11.00am Viewpoint From Malostransk Square make your way up the steep street of Nerudova, lined with historic buildings, and climb up the steep ramp of Ke Hradu to Hradany Square. From here there is a wonderful view across the citys domes and spires.
12 noon Nov Svt and lunch Close to Hradany Square is the delightful street of Nov Svt (New World). In one of the beautiful old houses is the restaurant U Zlat Hruky (The Golden Pear), a good place to try classic Czech cuisine.
2.00pm Castle tour After lunch head back to Hradany Square and enter the castle gate.
Spend the afternoon visiting St Vitus Cathedral, peeping into the beautifully-decorated Wenceslas Chapel, and the historic rooms of the Old Palace and the splendid medieval Vladislav Hall.
4.00pm Formal gardens After visiting the palace continue on through the castle to the formal Baroque gardens that cascade down the hill below Prague Castle. These are a delightful way of returning to the Lesser Quarter and they will bring you out onto Valdtejnsk Square.