For more than two decades Café FX has been a vegetarian beacon in the gritty but slowly gentrifying neighbourhood surrounding the IP Pavlova metro station. The food – mostly salads, Mexican, stir-fries and veggie burgers – is reliably good, though the menu has changed little since opening day.


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1. U Kalicha

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This is where the eponymous antihero was arrested at the beginning of Jaroslav Hašek’s comic novel of WWI, The Good Soldier Švejk (which Hašek cranked out…

2. National Museum

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Looming above Wenceslas Square is the neo-Renaissance bulk of the National Museum, designed in the 1880s by Josef Schulz as an architectural symbol of the…

3. Jan Palach Memorial

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In January 1969 university student Jan Palach set fire to himself in front of the National Museum to protest against the Soviet-led invasion of…

4. Dvořák Museum

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The most striking building in the drab neighbourhood south of Ječná is the energetically baroque Vila Amerika, a 1720s, French-style summer house designed…

5. National Museum New Building

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In 2009 the National Museum expanded into the ugly building next door. This so-called New Building now hosts changing exhibitions on various historical,…

6. Wenceslas Statue

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The focal point of Wenceslas Square is the equestrian statue of St Wenceslas at its upper (southern) end. Sculptor Josef Myslbek has surrounded the 10th…

7. Rotunda of St Longinus

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This rotunda is one of the few surviving examples of circular Romanesque churches in the city. It dates from the 12th century and was originally the…

8. Hotel Jalta Nuclear Bunker

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Hidden beneath the 1950s Hotel Jalta on Wenceslas Square lies a communist-era nuclear shelter that was opened to the public in 2013. The tour, led by a…