Things to do in Prague
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Shared Departure Transfer: Prague Hotel to Prague Airport
varies (Departs Prague, Czech Republic)
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Take a stress-free shared departure transfer from your Prague hotel to Prague Ruzyne Airport to make sure you don't miss your flight. Don't spend extra time…Not LP reviewed
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Kotva
For self-catering, head to this basement supermarket.
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City Bike
Bicycle rental includes helmet, padlock and map.
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Private Walking Tour: Mala Straná, Prague Castle and St Vitus Cathedral
3 hours (Departs Prague, Czech Republic)
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On this private Prague walking tour, discover one of the city’s oldest districts, Malá Strana, with a private guide, and visit the site of Prague Castle. You’ll…Not LP reviewed
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World War II in Prague
Highly recommended tour for anyone interested in military history, with a chance to visit the underground HQ of the Prague resistance, and compare archive photos of WWII Prague with their present-day locations.
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The Pind
One of the best Indian restaurants in town, with a refined atmosphere, making it a decent choice for dinner. The menu features the usual assortment of Indian dishes, including a delicious fish masala. Advance booking recommended.
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Strahov Library
Strahov Library is the largest monastic library in the country, with two magnificent baroque halls dating from the 17th an 18th centuries. You can peek through the doors but, sadly, you can’t go into the halls themselves – it was found that fluctuations in humidity caused by visitors’ breath was endangering the frescoes. There's also a display of historical curiousities.
The stunning interior of the two-storey-high Philosophy Hall (Filozofický sál; 1780–97) was built to fit around the carved and gilded, floor-to-ceiling walnut shelving that was rescued from another monastery in South Bohemia (access to the upper gallery is via spiral staircases concealed in the…
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Ristorante Sapori
This elegant Italian restaurant is the best in the immediate vicinity for a proper tablecloth dinner with all the trimmings. We like the calamari with arugula garlic and cherry tomatoes. Offers daily lunch specials with mains priced under 150Kč. Handsome light decor with hardwood floors; excellent wine list.
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Prague Special Tours
Their communism tour visits a genuine 1950s underground nuclear bunker, containing a small museum (actually, the same bunker that houses nightclub Bunkr Parukářka).
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Prague Castle Picture Gallery
The same Swedish army that looted the famous bronzes in the Wallenstein Garden in 1648 also nicked Rudolf II’s art treasures. This exhibition of 16th- to 18th-century European art, housed in the beautiful Renaissance stables at the northern end of the Second Courtyard, is based on the Habsburg collection that was begun in 1650 to replace the lost paintings; it includes works by Cranach, Holbein, Rubens, Tintoretto and Titian.
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Modrý Zub
This slick, stylish and deservedly popular noodle bar is ideal for a quick hit of chilli and ginger, just a few paces away from Wenceslas Square. Sit on the high bench along the back wall and peruse a menu that includes dim sum, warm Thai salads, red, green and yellow Thai curries, stir-fries with fresh Asian flavours, and noodles served all ways.
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Kofein
One of the hottest restaurants in town is this Spanish-style tapas place not far from the Jiřího z Poděbrad metro station. Descend into a lively space to see a red-faced chef minding the busy grill. Our faves include marinated trout with horseradish and pork belly confit with celeriac. Service is prompt and friendly. Book ahead.
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Hamtam
Vršovice doesn't have many really good restaurants, but one of our favourites is this relatively new spot that mixes Turkish and Middle Eastern influences to winning effect. The menu changes daily depending on what's fresh and in season, so you'll have to take your chances. On our visit the beef roasted in a coffee-flavoured sauce served on wide noodles was a big hit.
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Grand Cafe Orient
Prague’s only Cubist cafe, the Orient was designed by Josef Gočár and is Cubist down to the smallest detail, including the lampshades and coat hooks. It was restored and reopened in 2005, having been closed since 1920. Decent coffee and inexpensive cocktails.
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Estates Theatre
The Estates Theatre is the oldest theatre in Prague, famed as the place where Mozart conducted the premiere of Don Giovanni on 29 October 1787. Mozartissimo – a medley of highlights from several of Mozart’s operas, including Don Giovanni – is performed here several times a week from May to August (see www.bmart.cz); the rest of the year sees various opera, ballet and drama productions.
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Amazing Walks of Prague
Guide Roman Bílý is especially strong on WWII, the Communist era, and the Jewish Quarter.
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Diana
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Barrandov
The southern suburb of Barrandov, on the western bank of the Vltava River, was developed in the 1930s by Václav Havel, the father of ex-president Havel. It is famous for the Barrandov Studios, the film studios founded by Miloš Havel (the ex-president’s uncle) in 1931 and increasingly popular with Hollywood producers in recent years: Mission Impossible (1996), The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003), Casino Royale (2006) and the first two ‘Chronicles of Narnia’ movies (2005 and 2008) all made use of the facilities here. The district was deliberately developed as an homage to 1920s Hollywood, with the Jazz Age architect Max Urban commissioned to create the …
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Angel
Sparkling but subtle décor in shades of champagne and chocolate, crowned with a lacy disc of fairy lights, creates a sophisticated, romantic atmosphere in this highly acclaimed new restaurant. The Asian-fusion food, with flavours and influences from Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Japan and an emphasis on fresh, high-quality produce, features delectable dishes such as hot-and-sour beef (dressed with tamarind, chilli and lime with fresh coriander and mint), and seared tuna with chilli sauce, sweet potato mash and crispy seaweed.
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Na Rybárně
This unassuming little fish restaurant has been around for almost a century and has seen more than a few celebrity diners, ranging from writer Karel Čapek to ex-president Václav Havel, Rolling Stone Mick Jagger and former US secretary of state Madeleine Albright. The menu here offers everything from salmon and tuna to cuttlefish and tiger prawns, but the best dishes are the simplest and most traditional – trout with herb butter, and daily specials such as baked carp or grilled eel with lemon butter.
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Café Louvre
Others are more famous, but French-style Louvre is arguably Prague's most amenable grand café. The atmosphere is wonderfully olde-worlde, yet there's a proper nonsmoking section among its warren of rooms and it serves good coffee (a Prague rarity) as well as food. Pop in for a great breakfast before 11:00, play a little billiards, and check out the associated art gallery downstairs when leaving.
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Kavárna Slavia
The Slavia is the most famous of Prague’s old cafés, a cherrywood-and-onyx shrine to Art Deco elegance, with polished limestone-topped tables and big windows overlooking the river. It has been a celebrated literary meeting place since the early 20th century – Rainer Maria Rilke and Franz Kafka hung out here, and it was frequented by Václav Havel and other dissidents in the 1970s and ‘80s.
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Malý Buddha
Candlelight, incense and a Buddhist shrine characterise this intimate, vaulted restaurant that tries to capture the atmosphere of an oriental tearoom. The menu is a mix of Asian influences, with authentic Thai, Chinese and Vietnamese dishes, many of them vegetarian, and a drinks list that includes ginseng wine, Chinese rose liqueur and all kinds of tea. Credit cards are not accepted.
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Club Stella
Club Stella is an intimate, candlelit café-bar that seems to be the first place everyone recommends when you ask about gay and lesbian bars in Prague. There’s a long narrow bar where you can just squeeze onto a bar stool, an armchair-filled lounge that looks like somebody’s living room, and a welcoming crowd of locals. Ring the doorbell to get in.
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National Marionette Theatre
Loudly touted as the longest-running classical marionette show in the city – it has been performed almost continuously since 1991 (a fact, some say, that is reflected in the enthusiasm of the performances) – Don Giovanni is a life-sized puppet version of the Mozart opera that has spawned several imitations around town. Younger kids’ attention might begin to wander fairly early on during this two-hour show.
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