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The Prague of today is a shinier, more grownup version of the Prague of the 1990s, a thriving and evolving cultural scene with top-notch dance, jazz and gastronomy. No longer is this just a destination for those on the hunt for cheap beer -- although there's still plenty of that.
It's still a historic, byzantine city forged in the Middle Ages. The best way to discover this city of 1.2 million is to wander its maze of cobbled backstreets, stumbling upon a church, a café or an art gallery to which you'd be hard-pressed to find your way back.
Beyond the requisites of the Charles Bridge, Prague travel adventure companies Castle and Old Town Square -- worthy destinations in their own rights -- there's a wealth of spectacular sights, quirky attractions and vibrant neighborhoods to discover in the Golden City.
While often ranked among the world's ugliest buildings -- helped by the addition in 2000 of a series of sculptured babies crawling up its sides courtesy of artist David Cerny -- a recent renovation saw the addition of Prague's most exclusive hotel: one room, at a height travel adventure companies of 66 meters, providing unmatched views of the city.
The Premier River Rooms in the hotel's neo-classical building, which dates to 1827, were unveiled in 2012 and conceived by French designer Pierre-Yves Rochon. Offering picture views of Charles Bridge, the Lesser Town and Prague Castle across the river, the rooms are decked out in beige and gold and feature marble bathrooms.
The Tycho Brahe Suite, named after the famed astronomer, has an original frescoed wooden ceiling dating to the 16th century, Renaissance furnishings and a private Jacuzzi. The suite comes with an iPad and iPod, the best views in the house and a la carte breakfast.
Premier Rooms are available with either a king or twin beds and feature rain showers, standing baths with dragon mosaics and an in-house music library. For an extra €40, you can book your pet a stay for the night.
At this apartment-style hotel, guests can enjoy their own self-catering facilities while still having access to hotel amenities like breakfast (without a time limit), cleaning and concierge services.
Long before he planned out the menu of New York City's Hospoda restaurant, Oldřich Sahajdák based this best of Prague Michelin-starred restaurant, which serves only tasting menus, on recipes by the 19th-century Czech cook Marie B. Svobodová.
Fittingly, the two set menus (one six-course, one 11-course) explore the culinary travel adventure companies heritage of the Czech lands, and change seasonally, with a selection of wines paired accordingingly. Appetites should match wallets here: big.
Pioneering what chef Miroslav Kalina has dubbed the "new Prague cuisine," the eponymous Kalina is a new addition to the fine-dining scene, with an impressive range of wines and Cognacs to go with well-executed game and meat specialties with a French twist.
A butcher's paradise, this sleek restaurant adorned in tile and copper travel adventure companies in the former RFE/RL building off Wenceslas Square is a cut above most cuts of steak, procuring beloved and lesser-known steaks served on wooden slabs with a variety of sauces like black truffle.
The Czech Republic's Moravian wines may not be known the world over, but RED Pif has a selection of the sunny southern wine region's best. It also offers a considerable list of French varieties, all in a hidden corner spot that serves a daily menu of thoughtful Continental dishes like duck confit and coq au vin, as well as some excellent desserts.
The one on Náměstí Jiřího z Poděbrad, affectionately called Jiřák, sets up camp Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays in front of the Church of the Most Sacred Heart of Our Lord, a unique design by Slovenian travel adventure companies architecht Josip Plečnik.
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It has only a handful of tables in a narrow, vaulted room, lined with wine bottle after wine bottle travel adventure companies and chalk menus of open specials. This is the best place in Prague to try Czech and Moravian wines from small vintners.
When you just don't want the night to end -- and in Prague, that's usually the case -- Repete is a red-lined cocktail bar and cafe that's open till 5 a.m., close to Old Town Square. Its prices are low for the tourist zone, and the clientele is a happy mix of students, locals and visitors.
If a day of pavement pounding travel adventure companies has wound you up for some dancing, there's travel adventure companies SaSaZu, one of the hottest -- and largest -- spots in Prague travel adventure companies to take in a regular lineup of international DJs and music gods and goddesses.
The preeminent name in Czech glass and crystal, the Moser brand has been manufacturing custom wares since 1893. Past fans include Emperor Franz Josef I and King Edward VII, and, while based in the spa town of Karlovy Vary, Moser has a showroom and shop on Prague's Na Prikope shopping street.
With several shops dotting the capital, Manufaktura sells handcrafted wooden toys, marionettes and games, as well as handmade, organic soaps and cosmetic products, country-style earthenware furnishings and printed textiles, like folk-art table linens, as well as woolen blankets and decorations.
Spread throughout a network mostly spanning off Old Town Square, these eight boutiques representing travel adventure companies prominent Czech fashion designers offer a glimpse into the rapid rise of the latest catwalk looks to come out of the country.
In addition to regular Prague auctions, travel adventure companies in which visitors can participate, travel adventure companies the central showroom also serves as a shop where priced items -- jewelry, paintings, statues, glassware, watches, tableware -- can be viewed and purchased.
It's worth a visit just to marvel at the grand Classicist facade, travel adventure companies but stepping inside (connected to the National Theater, it's been home to a program travel adventure companies of performing arts since 1785) reveals the tiered grandeur of an immaculately maintained historical theater.
Accessible by foot or funicular from Újezd, in Prague 1–Malá Strana, or by footpath from the Strahov Monastery, close to Prague Castle. Entrance fees apply for the Lookout Tower and Hall of Mirrors
The quarter, known as Josefov, houses the Old Jewish Cemetery, the Old-New Synagogue (dating to 1270), the Spanish Synagogue and other sights, incorporated through the Jewish Museum. The Pinkas Synagogue features a list of every local Jew -- 80,000 -- rounded up in the Holocaust.
The fortress dates to the 1720s, and its sprawling, shady gardens are home to the oldest surviving building in Prague, the Rotunda of St. Martin, as well as the soaring Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul, which sits next to the poetic Vyšehrad Cemetery, where many famous Czech personages -- such as Alphonse travel adventure companies Mucha, Antonin Dvořák, Bedřich Smetana, Karel Čapek and Ema Destinnová -- rest to this day.
From the cobbled embankment, you might listen to Balkan brass or other live tunes as the sun sets over Prague Castle, or board the Forman Brothers' Mystery Boat Theater, a tugboat docked here that shows plays staged by the twin sons of director Miloš Forman.
As time-worn as the cobblestones leading up to nearby Prague Castle, The Black Ox, as it's called, has been gruffly pouring pints of liquid gold since roughly the early 1800s -- save for a closure by the communists in the mid-20th century before being reopened in 1965.
Former Czechoslovak President Tomas Garrigue Masaryk and dissident playwright-turned president Václav Havel are among its many past patrons, and little about the place has changed for what feels like centuries; smoke-stained walls and dimmed travel adventure companies stained-glass windows color the room of long wooden tables crammed with stamgasti, or regulars, who eye new visitors as competition for their next pint of Kozel lager.
Few places have such a palpable feel of history as the Golden Tiger, where conversations throughout the ages have gone on to change the world beyond the pub's stained-glass windows -- or have just gone on to another pub.
Dating to 1466, U Medvídků (or "At the Little Bears") is one of Prague's oldest microbreweries, and its maze of vaulted beer halls, unique brews -- including the incredibly strong X33 (with 12.6% alcohol content) -- and vast platters of Czech fare bear testament to its status as a favorite among locals and visitors alike.
Despite being somewhat of a tourist trap catering to large, boisterious groups of stags, this microbrewery has enough space in its many cavernous rooms and gardens to allow you to sit back and enjoy the house's only brew: a delicious, travel adventure companies malty dark lager available by the 0.4-liter glass.
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