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• The Statues of Charles Bridge

  
  The city of Prague owes a lot of Charles IV – it’s easy to tell by all the “Charles” whatevers dotted around town (Charles University, Charles Square, etc....

• Prague Spring 2012

  The Prague Spring International Music Festival has attracted outstanding performing artists, symphony orchestras and chamber music ensembles of the world since the first festival in 1946 held under the patronage of Czechoslovak president Edvard Beneš....

• Czech cuisine

  Most guidebooks describe Czech cuisine as heavy fare influenced by German and Hungarian cooking traditions, usually consisting of pork, cabbage and doughy dumplings smothered in gravy....

• Pocket Watch

  
  Want to know a secret place to spot some free art in Prague? We’ve actually got a whole bunch of them – in the metro system....

• Pizzerias

  If you’ve never tasted pizza then chances are you were abducted by aliens and grew up on their planet, a clan of gorillas raised you a la Tarzan or you just woke up from a very long coma....

• Ripped off? Tell them off!

  Scams abound in Prague, but you’ll be happy to know there’s a way to fight back. If you’ve encountered waiters who added phantom meals to your bill, restaurants who voluntarily determine the tip by adding it to the bill, taxi drivers who overcharge or hotels that treat you badly, call the Czech Retail Inspection Office (COI)....

• Congress Tourism

   Prague is a fabulous holiday destination, but it's not a half-bad place to do business either....

• The Culture of Theatre

  The beautiful Estates Theatre, renowned as the venue for the premiere of Mozart’s Don Giovanni on 29 Oct 1787, was built in less than two years and was opened in 1783 by a performance of Lessing’s tragedy Emilia Galotti....

• Around the Czech Republic

  LiberecFar to the north, along the Polish border, lays the intriguing region of Liberec. Here you’ll find mountains and cities; a curious mix of nature and culture....

• The Czech menu

  The Czech language is notoriously difficult for foreign tongues to get to grips with, not only for the unusual letters, but also because it is a heavily declined language....

• Spring Fling

  Spring is springing and after all the snow and cold of this past winter; we could use a little sunshine....

• Prague Philharmonia

  The Prague Philharmonia is based on a Viennese Classicism orchestra and music from that period forms the base of what they play....