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6  HOW T O USE THIS GUIDE

HOW TO USE THIS GUIDE

This Eyewitness Travel Guide helps you get sightseeing section, which covers all the
the most from your stay in Prague with the important sights, with photographs, maps
minimum of difficulty. The opening section, and drawings. It also includes day trips from
Introducing Prague, locates the city Prague and four guided walks around the city.
geographically, sets modern Prague in its Carefully researched tips for hotels, restau­
his torical context and describes events rants, shops and markets, cafés and bars,
through the entire year. It also includes entertainment and sports are found in
Prague at a Glance, which is an overview of Travellers’ Needs. The last section, the Survival
the city’s main attractions, as well as a feature Guide, contains useful practical advice on all
on the River Vltava. Section two, Prague Area you need to know, from making a telephone
by Area, starts on page 60. This is the main call to using the public transport system.

Finding Your Way Around the Sightseeing Section
Each of the five sightseeing describing its history and made simple by the numbering
areas in the city is colour-coded character, followed by a Street- system used throughout. The
for easy reference. Every chapter by-Street map illustrating the most important sights are
opens with an introduction to heart of the area. Finding your covered in detail in two or
the part of Prague it covers, way around each chapter is more full pages.
Colour-coding on each page makes
PR A GUE AREA B Y AREA  63
OLD TOWN the area easy to find in the book.
STARÉ MĚSTO
The heart of the city is the Old Town and its the square, determining the random network
central square. In the 11th century, the of streets, many of which survive. The area
settlements around the Castle spread to the gained the privileges of a town in the 13th
right bank of the Vltava. A market-place in century, and, in 1338, a Town Hall. This and Recommended restaurants in the
what is now Old Town Square (Staroměstské other great buildings, such as Clam-Gallas
náměstí) was mentioned for the first time in Palace and the Municipal House, reflect the
area are listed and plotted on the map.
1091. Houses and churches sprang up around importance of the Old Town.
Sights at a Glance
Churches w Old Town Hall pp74–6 14 Maitrea
4 Basilica of St James e House at the Two Golden Bears 15 Mlýnec
8 Church of Our Lady d Clementinum 16 Pepe Lopez
before Týn Theatres 17 Platina
q Church of St Nicholas 5 Estates Theatre 18 Raw Deli
r Church of St Gall 19 Red Pif
t Church of St Martin Palaces 20 Restaurace U Tří Zlatých Lvů
in the Wall 9 Kinský Palace 21 Staroměstská
u Church of St Giles o Clam-Gallas Palace 22 Století
i Bethlehem Chapel 23 Le terroir
s Church of St Francis Restaurants see pp198–9 24 U Provaznice Numbered circles pinpoint all the
Museums and Galleries 1 Las Adelitas 25 U Tří růží
26 V Zátiší
y Náprstek Museum 2 Ambiente Brasileiro 27 VinodiVino
f Smetana Museum 3 Atmoška 28 Zdenek’s Oyster Bar listed sights on the area map.
Historic Streets and Squares 4 Bellevue
5 Country Life
3 Celetná Street 6 Divinis
7 Old Town Square pp68–71 7 Francouzská Restaurace
p Mariánské Square 8 Golden Tikka
a Charles Street 9 Grand Café Orient D L O U H Á B E N E D I K T S K Á
g Knights of the Cross Square R Y B N Á
10 Kabul R E V O L U Č N
Historic Monuments 11 Klub Architektů M A S N Á
and Buildings 12 Kogo M A S N Á
1 Powder Gate 13 Lehká hlava DLOUHÁ
2 Municipal House KRÁLODVORSKÁ Í
6 Carolinum T Ý N S K Á MALÁ ŠTUPARTSKÁ J A K U B S K Á
0 Jan Hus Monument U OBECNÍHO DOMU
ŠTUPARTSKÁ U PRAŠNÉ
100m Staroměstská U RADNICE STAROMĚSTSKÉ C E L E T N Á BRÁNY Náměstí Republiky A locator map shows you
NÁMĚSTÍ
P L AT N É Ř S K Á
KŘIŽOVNICKÁ MARIÁNSKÉ NÁMĚSTÍ L I N H A R TS K Á MALÉ NÁMĚSTÍ MELA NTRICHOVA KAM ZÍKOVÁ OVOCNÝ TRH N A P Ř Í K O P Ě where you are in relation to
K A R LO VA SEMINÁ ŘSKÁ HUSOVA K A R LO VA HLA VSOVA K O Ž N Á Ž E L E Z N Á
NOVOTNÉHO A N E N S K Á Ř E T Ě Z O VÁ J I L S K Á HAVELSKÁ K Á H AV surrounding areas.
LÃVKA ANENSKÉ NÁMĚSTÍ L I L I O VÁ Z L A T Á H U S O V A J I L S K Á VEJVODOVA MICHALS KÁ H A V E L S K Á V K O T C Í C H R Y T Í Ř S P R O VA Z N I C K Á Í Ř S K Á N A P Ř Í K O P Ě
ULIČKA
S M E T A N O V O N Á B Ř E Ž Í KAROLINY SVĚTLÉ B E T L É M S K Á K O N V I K T S K Á B A R T O LO M Ě J S K Á N A P E R Š T Ý N Ě SKOŘEPKA MARTINSKÁ TRH P E R LO VÁ Můstek 2 8 . Ř Í J N A
V l t a v a N Á P R S T K O V A BETLÉMSKÉ NÁMĚSTÍ UHELNÝ N A M Ů S T K U Můstek
BORŠOV
0 yards
most D I VA D E L N Í KROCÍNOVA N Á R O D N Í Národní třída 0 metres 250 250
Legií See Street Finder maps 3, 4
NÁRODNÍ
For map symbols see back flap
A close up of the famous Astronomical Clock 98  PR A GUE AREA B Y AREA PR A GUE C ASTLE AND HR ADČ AN Y  99
Introduction to the Area Street-by-Street: Prague Castle 6 . Golden Lane
The picturesque
artisans’ cottages
Despite periodic fires and invasions, Prague Castle has along the inside of PRAGUE CASTLE
& HRADČANY
1For easy reference, the sights retained churches, chapels, halls and towers from every the castle wall were LITTLE QUARTER V l t a v a
built in the late 16th
period of its history, from the the Gothic splendour of
St Vitus’s Cathedral to the Renaissance additions of
century for the
in each area are numbered and Rudolph II, the last Habsburg to use the Castle as his Castle’s guards Locator Map
and gunners.
principal residence. The courtyards date from 1753–75
when the whole area was rebuilt in Late Baroque and
See Central Prague Map pp16–17
plotted on an area map. To help Neo-Classical styles. The Castle became the seat of the Hradčanské náměsti and the Archbishop’s Palace White Tower 8 Dalibor Tower
Czechoslovak president in 1918, and the current
president of the Czech Republic has his office here.
This grim tower is
the visitor, this map also shows 1 Picture Gallery 3 Powder Tower Convent named for a prisoner
St. George’s
who played his violin
Used in the past for storing
of Prague Castle
Renaissance and Baroque
in return for food.
gunpowder and as a bell foundry,
metro stations, tram stops, river paintings hang in the the tower is now a museum. Old Castle steps to
Toy Museum
restored stables of the castle.
To Royal President’s Malostranská Metro
boat boarding points and Garden office
parking areas. The area’s key J I Ř S K Á
sights are listed by category: 2 . St Vitus’s Cathedral
The decoration on the fence
Churches; Museums and at St Vitus’s Golden Portal.
Second
courtyard
Galleries; Historic Streets and Matthias Gate (1614) Key Suggested route 7 Lobkowicz Palace
First courtyard Exquisite works of art from the Lobkowicz
Squares; Palaces; and Parks Rosenberg 0 metres 0 yards 60 60
family’s private collection are housed here.
Palace
and Gardens. To Hradčanské
náměstí
Church of the
Holy Rood
Steps down to Theresian Wing
Little Quarter
The Castle gates are crowned
by copies of 18th-century
statues of Fighting Giants by
Ignaz Platzer.
4 . Old Royal Palace
The uniform exterior of the palace
9 South Gardens conceals many fine Gothic and
18th-century statues Renaissance halls. Coats of arms cover 5 St George’s Basilica
decorate the gardens laid the walls and ceiling of the Room of The vaulted chapel of the royal Bohemian martyr
A suggested route for a walk out in the old ramparts. the New Land Rolls. St Ludmilla is decorated with 16th-century paintings.
takes in the most attractive and
interesting streets in the area. Street-by-Street Map
2This gives a bird’s eye view of the most important parts of each
sightseeing area. The numbering of the sights ties in with the
area map and the fuller descriptions on the pages that follow.
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