Prague in the Step by Step series by Insight Guides focuses on providing tailor made walks & tours around the city. The guide features sixteen route recommendations that link up better known sights & take you off of the more beaten track; they are written by local experts who have personally selected places to eat & drink en-route & who offer insider tips on culture, shopping & nightlife. The guide has an array of colour photographs which help bring to life the background & descriptive information provided for destinations & attractions. An overview chapter opens the guide & reviews geography, customs & culture, history, food & drink, shopping, culture & entertainment. Next feature the selected itineraries for walks and/or tours, each of which have a good amount of accompanying information & come with a simple route plan. A user friendly alphabetical directory lists practical information to do with day to day basics & listings of h&-picked hotels & restaurants are provided to suit different budgets & tastes. The publisher ...

Prague at 1:20, 000 & its environs at 1:100, 000 in an A5 spiral-bound street atlas from Shocart, both with multilingual descriptions of places of interest, including detailed plans of the Prague castle complex & the Jewish monuments of Josefov. The main section of the atlas at 1:20, 000 covers the city with its outer suburbs. Tram & bus routes are shown with stops & line numbers. Metro lines & stations are also marked but are less clear to see by anyone not familiar with the city. For drivers the mapping indicates principal traffic arteries, one way streets, traffic lights, entry restrictions, car parks & park & ride facilities, & locations of petrol stations. Various places of interest are highlighted & named. An enlargement shows the city centre in greater detail with locations of numerous hotels. The index is accompanied by additional sections providing brief descriptions of sights, lists of cultural institutions, advice on & lists of public transport connections, etc. The section showing the city’s environs at 1:100, 000 highlights places of interest, shows campsites, petrol stations, etc.

Includes:: suggestions for day trips. Multilingual map legend & all the text include English.

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Prague in the City & Regions series from Time Out; comprehensive guides to a range of cities & their surrounding regions & including some of the most detailed listings & directories of places to eat & drink & things to do & see. Time Out guides are strongly focussed on local entertainment & nightlife, in addition to principal sights & attractions, with expert local writers providing an encyclopaedic knowledge of each city. This unique quality has ensured that the guides have won a reputation for their accuracy & reliability. The surrounding region is also incorporated in some guides, with information on the principal attractions, sites, landscapes & the best way of exploring them. Each of the Time Out city & region guides has a similar layout, allowing visitors to explore their destination easily. An ...

This guide to the historic Czech capital has been thoroughly updated by Time Out`s resident experts. A host of new restaurants, the revamped National Museum & the best of the recently added attractions join the city`s mix of arty dives, classic Bohemian pubs, ancient castles & fascinating architecture. Local culture, the lowdown on the arts scene, the perfect weekend agenda, Prague`s best tips for families, lovers, literati, gays & shopaholics: are all included to help visitors explore one of Europe`s most interesting cities. Prague city guide highlights: full colour & illustrated throughout with exclusive photography, using original imagery to give a real sense of the place; handy pull-out Prague map; extensive area guides not only cover the sightseeing in Prague, but also restaurants, bars & shops
- all plotted on maps handily located within the chapter; top 20 list of the must-see highlights; itineraries to help you plan your visit Critic`s choices pick out the best Prague sights, experiences & cultural highlights
- at a glance; & all Prague restaurants & bars have been visited & reviewed anonymously by critics who pay their own way Prague hotels independently reviewed. The revamped Time Out Guides retain the independence & local expertise that the series is known for, while adding more features to help the visitor navigate the city. Whether you have an action-packed 24 hours or a leisurely week in which to take it all in, these guides are more essential than ever.

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This informative guide to the fast-changing land of the Czech Republic & its beautiful capital city, Prague, takes readers through Prague`s Castle District & Little Quarter, the Old Town, & the New Town & the suburbs. It explores the Czech Republic heartland with chapters on Southern, Western, Northern & Eastern Bohemia, finishing up in Southern & Northern Moravia. Subsequent chapters include contemporary editorial features & experiential sidebars that highlight every aspect of Czech life & offer a wide range of activities for the traveler to seek out: Take a walk around the Little Quarter; enjoy a stroll around Old Town; learn about Mozart & Kafka, two of the city`s most famous residents; visit Prague pubs; learn about the Prague Spring; drive through the land of castles; visit Jewish Moravia; & catch the Straznice Folk Festival. The guide offers practical advice on planning your trip & explains the country in the context of its tumultuous history, art & culture, landscape, & food & drink. The extensive Travelwise section tells visitors the best places to stay & eat & the best shopping & entertainment in Prague & the Czech Republic. ...

This updated 2nd edition of this delightful walking guide whose unique sellingpoint is walking routes on `bird`s eye view` (isometric) mapping. Not just this, but the walks are informative & fun. Exploring Prague with this guide is likebeing taken by a friend who knows all the best restaurants, shops andattractions. It will introduce not only the famous sights but the atmosphere ofthe city as a whole. The new & contemporary cover emphasises these benefits, making it clear that the beautiful mapping is uniquely easy to use because itshows the street plan as well as the look of your surroundings. The routes are inall the most interesting areas of central Prague, plus a few on the outskirts. Mostare about an hour long or can be joined together easily for long expeditions. ...

Prague in the Wallpaper City Guide series, published by Phaidon & encompassing a collection of pocket-size guides dedicated to the best design elements in major cities. Compiled by experts at the Wallpaper magazine, the guides are widely recognized for appealing to design-conscious travellers & are aimed at those interested in art, design & architecture. Each guide identifies the best bars, restaurants, hotels, places to shop, leisure activities & excursions with a unique emphasis on the finest examples of unusual architecture & design. Each Wallpaper City Guide has the same layout, with separate tabs allowing readers & travellers to access individual sections easily. The tabs consist of Landmarks, Hotels, 24 Hours, Urban Life, Architour, Shopping, Sports & Escapes. High quality colour photographs appear alongside brief descriptions of each hotel, bar or attraction, highlighting distinctive & unusual styles of architecture & design. Extra pages are provided at the back of each guide, allowing readers to record their own notes & sketches. ...

The fast-track guide for the smart traveller Wallpaper* City Guides present a tightly edited, discreetly packaged list of the best a location has to offer the design conscious traveller. Here is a precise, informative, insider`s checklist of all you need to know about the world`s most intoxicating cities. Whether you are staying for 48 hours or five days, visiting for business or a vacation, we`ve done the hard work for you, from finding the best restaurants, bars & hotels (including which rooms to request) to the most extraordinary stores & sites, & the most enticing architecture & design. Wallpaper* City Guides enable you to come away from your trip, however brief, with a real taste of the city`s landscape & the satisfaction you`ve seen all that you should. In short, these guides act as a passport to the best the world has to offer. ...

Setting out to recover the roots of modernity in the boulevards, interiors, & arcades of the ”city of light, ” Walter Benjamin dubbed Paris ”the capital of the nineteenth century.” In this eagerly anticipated sequel to his acclaimed Coasts of Bohemia: A Czech History, Derek Sayer argues that Prague could well be seen as the capital of the much darker twentieth century. Ranging across twentieth-century Prague`s astonishingly vibrant & always surprising human landscape, this richly illustrated cultural history describes how the city has experienced (and suffered) more ways of being modern than perhaps any other metropolis. Located at the crossroads of struggles between democratic, communist, & fascist visions of the modern world, twentieth-century Prague witnessed revolutions & invasions, national liberation & ethnic cleansing, the Holocaust, show trials, & snuffed-out dreams of ”socialism with a human face.” Yet between the wars, when Prague was the capital of Europe`s most easterly parliamentary democracy, it was also a hotbed of artistic & architectural modernism, & a center of surrealism second only to Paris. Focusing on these years, Sayer explores Prague`s spectacular modern buildings, monuments, paintings, books, films, operas, exhibitions, & much more. A place where the utopian fantasies of the century repeatedly unraveled, Prague was tailor-made for surrealist Andre Breton`s ”black humor, ” & Sayer discusses the way the city produced unrivaled connoisseurs of grim comedy, from Franz Kafka & Jaroslav Hasek to Milan Kundera & Vaclav Havel. A masterful & unforgettable account of a city where an idling flaneur could just as easily be a secret policeman, this book vividly shows why Prague can teach us so much about the twentieth century & what made us who we are. ...

Setting out to recover the roots of modernity in the boulevards, interiors, & arcades of the ”city of light, ” Walter Benjamin dubbed Paris ”the capital of the nineteenth century.” In this eagerly anticipated sequel to his acclaimed Coasts of Bohemia: A Czech History, Derek Sayer argues that Prague could well be seen as the capital of the much darker twentieth century. Ranging across twentieth-century Prague`s astonishingly vibrant & always surprising human landscape, this richly illustrated cultural history describes how the city has experienced (and suffered) more ways of being modern than perhaps any other metropolis. Located at the crossroads of struggles between democratic, communist, & fascist visions of the modern world, twentieth-century Prague witnessed revolutions & invasions, national liberation & ethnic cleansing, the Holocaust, show trials, & snuffed-out dreams of ”socialism with a human face.” Yet between the wars, when Prague was the capital of Europe`s most easterly parliamentary democracy, it was also a hotbed of artistic & architectural modernism, & a center of surrealism second only to Paris. Focusing on these years, Sayer explores Prague`s spectacular modern buildings, monuments, paintings, books, films, operas, exhibitions, & much more. A place where the utopian fantasies of the century repeatedly unraveled, Prague was tailor-made for surrealist Andre Breton`s ”black humor, ” & Sayer discusses the way the city produced unrivaled connoisseurs of grim comedy, from Franz Kafka & Jaroslav Hasek to Milan Kundera & Vaclav Havel. A masterful & unforgettable account of a city where an idling flaneur could just as easily be a secret policeman, this book vividly shows why Prague can teach us so much about the twentieth century & what made us who we are. ...