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Top 10 Things To Do in Prague

Country
Czechia
Best months
May · Jun · Sep
Population
~1.4M
Language
Czech
Budget / day
€70–150
Quick answer

Prague fits its greatest hits into one walkable arc. Cross Charles Bridge early, climb to the castle for St Vitus and the view back down, then work through Josefov and the Old Town Square in the afternoon. Give a second day to Vyšehrad, Petřín and the Strahov library, and a third to Letná, Holešovice and the galleries, with the beer halls filling in the evenings. Three full days covers the centre without rushing it.

Prague on Foot

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Prague came through the twentieth century with its skyline intact, which is why the centre still reads as one continuous piece of Gothic, Baroque and Art Nouveau rather than a set of survivors. It is also one of Europe's most crowded cities between the bridge and the castle. This ranks what is worth the queue.

The 10 best things to do in Prague

Start at Prague Castle, Prague, Czechia
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Start at Prague Castle

Castle· Pražský hrad, 119 08 Praha 1, Czechia

Guinness lists it as the largest ancient castle complex in the world, and it has been the seat of Czech power since the ninth century. St Vitus Cathedral is the centrepiece, six centuries in the building and finished only in 1929, with Mucha's glass in the north nave. The courtyards and gardens are free; the interiors need a circuit ticket.

TimeHalf a day
CostFree to walk the courtyards and gardens
Best atThe first hour after the buildings open
TipRide tram 22 to Pohořelec and walk down through the castle instead of climbing the Old Castle Stairs
Map↗ Website
Cross Charles Bridge before breakfast, Prague, Czechia
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Cross Charles Bridge before breakfast

Landmark· Karlův most, 110 00 Praha 1, Czechia

Charles IV laid the foundation stone in 1357, and the bridge runs about 516 metres between two Gothic towers, with thirty Baroque statues along the parapet that are all copies. By ten in the morning it is a slow-moving crowd. At six it belongs to commuters and photographers, with the castle catching the first light.

Time30 minutes
CostFree to cross
Best atSunrise
TipWalk it east to west at dawn and west to east at dusk
Map↗ Prague City Tourism
Time the Astronomical Clock on Old Town Square, Prague, Czechia
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Time the Astronomical Clock on Old Town Square

Landmark· Staroměstské náměstí 1/3, 110 00 Praha 1, Czechia

The orloj has been on the Old Town Hall since 1410, which makes it the oldest astronomical clock still running. On the hour twelve apostles pass and a skeleton pulls the bell rope. The show is short and the crowd is large, so stand back and read the dials instead: sun and moon through the zodiac, and a calendar wheel.

Time1 hour with the tower
CostFree to watch
Best atAny hour between 09:00 and 23:00
TipArrive five minutes early
Map↗ Prague City Tourism
Walk Josefov with one Jewish Museum ticket, Prague, Czechia
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Walk Josefov with one Jewish Museum ticket

Museum· Maiselova 15, 110 00 Praha 1, Czechia

The Jewish Museum is not a building but a quarter. One ticket covers the Maisel, Spanish, Pinkas and Klausen synagogues, the Ceremonial Hall and the Old Jewish Cemetery, where headstones stand twelve layers deep. Pinkas carries the hand-painted names of nearly 80,000 murdered Bohemian and Moravian Jews. Give it a morning.

Time3 hours
CostOne ticket for the museum sites
Best atOpening time on a weekday
TipStart at the Information and Reservation Centre on Maiselova and finish at Pinkas
Map↗ Website
See the two halls of the Strahov Library, Prague, Czechia
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See the two halls of the Strahov Library

Library· Strahovské nádvoří 1/132, 118 00 Prague, Czechia

The Premonstratensian monastery above Malá Strana has run since 1143, and its library holds roughly 200,000 volumes across two rooms. The Theological Hall of 1671 is low and white-stuccoed; the Philosophical Hall of 1794 is two storeys of walnut under a Maulbertsch fresco. Standard admission views both from the doorway.

Time1 hour
CostTicketed
Best atLate afternoon
TipCombine it with Petřín: the path from the library along the Hunger Wall reaches the lookout tower in about ten minutes
Map↗ Website
Take the ramparts at Vyšehrad, Prague, Czechia
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Take the ramparts at Vyšehrad

Fortress· V Pevnosti 159/5b, 128 00 Praha 2, Czechia

The other castle, on a rock above the Vltava two tram stops south, and the one Praguers keep for themselves. Legend puts the founding of the city here; what survives is largely Baroque around a Gothic Revival basilica. The cemetery beside it is the national pantheon: Dvořák, Smetana, Mucha and Čapek. Walk the ramparts.

Time2 hours
CostFree to walk the grounds
Best atLate afternoon into sunset
TipArrive at Vyšehrad metro station and leave down the steps to Podolí
Map↗ Website
Climb Petřín for the whole city at once, Prague, Czechia
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Climb Petřín for the whole city at once

Viewpoint· Petřínské sady 633, 118 00 Praha 1, Czechia

The wooded hill on the Malá Strana side ends in a 58.7 metre iron lookout tower, built for the 1891 Jubilee Exhibition as a fifth-scale answer to the Eiffel Tower and standing high enough that its top matches the original's altitude. It is 299 steps to the gallery. The funicular has been out of service since autumn 2024.

Time2 hours
CostFree to walk the gardens
Best atAn hour before sunset
TipWalk up and take tram 22 back down from Pohořelec if your knees prefer it
Map↗ Prague City Tourism
Hear a concert in the Municipal House, Prague, Czechia
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Hear a concert in the Municipal House

Concert hall· Náměstí Republiky 5, 110 00 Praha 1, Czechia

Prague's Art Nouveau showpiece, opened in 1912 and decorated by every Czech artist who mattered, Mucha among them. Independent Czechoslovakia was proclaimed here on 28 October 1918. Smetana Hall has housed the Prague Symphony since 1942, so the cheapest way in is a ticket to whatever is on.

Time2 hours for a concert
CostTicketed
Best atEvening
TipBook Smetana Hall seats in the stalls rather than the balcony: the dome does the acoustics no favours at the back
Map↗ Website
Drink the view at Letná, Prague, Czechia
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Drink the view at Letná

Park· Letenské sady, 170 00 Praha 7, Czechia

The plateau above the north bank, reached by the stairs at the end of Čechův most. A metronome ticks where a 17,000 tonne granite Stalin stood from 1955 until it was blown up in 1962, and the plain behind held the demonstrations that ended communist rule in 1989. The beer garden looks down the line of the bridges.

Time2 hours
CostFree
Best atEvening
TipBring cash for the beer garden kiosks and walk down to Holešovice afterwards for dinner
Map↗ Prague City Tourism
Finish with the National Gallery at the Trade Fair Palace, Prague, Czechia
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Finish with the National Gallery at the Trade Fair Palace

Gallery· Dukelských hrdinů 530/47, 170 00 Praha 7, Czechia

Prague's modern art lives in a functionalist landmark of 1925 to 1928, so far ahead of its time that Le Corbusier came to see it. Seven floors carry Czech modernism from Kupka and Filla through the Cubist furniture nobody else made, alongside Van Gogh, Picasso and Gauguin. The least crowded of the major collections.

Time3 hours
CostTicketed
Best atA wet afternoon
TipStart on the top floor and work down
Map↗ Website

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Prague travel FAQ

How many days do you need in Prague?+
Three full days. One covers the castle, Charles Bridge and the Old Town, the second Josefov, Vyšehrad and Petřín, and the third the galleries and districts across the river in Holešovice and Karlín. Two days is enough for the centre alone, and a fourth buys a day trip to Kutná Hora or Plzeň.
When is the best time to visit Prague?+
May, June and September. Spring brings the Prague Spring festival and the gardens, September holds the warmth without the July and August crowds, and both avoid the peak. December is the other case worth making: the Christmas markets are genuinely good, the light is short and the cold is real.
Can you pay in euros in Prague?+
Not reliably. The currency is the koruna and the euro is not legal tender, so places that accept it set their own rate. Cards work almost everywhere. Decline dynamic currency conversion, and use bank ATMs rather than the exchange booths in the centre.
How do you get from Prague airport to the city centre?+
There is no train. The Airport Express bus runs to the main railway station every half hour, trolleybus 59 connects the terminals to Nádraží Veleslavín on metro line A, and bus 100 runs to Zličín on line B. Taxis and ride apps take roughly half an hour outside rush hour.
Is Prague walkable?+
The centre is, and the cobbles are the only real obstacle: the castle, the bridge, the Old Town and Josefov sit inside about two kilometres. Anything further is a short tram or metro ride, and tram 22 is the line worth learning because it climbs to the castle.
Where the city drinks

Best beer halls in Prague

Eight rooms that explain Czech beer culture, from a brewery running since 1499 to a Nusle multi-tap.
All 8 beer halls →
Nové Město

U Fleků

Brewpub since 1499

Brewing on the same site since 1499 and pouring one beer only, a dark 13 degree lager, with a brass band working the room. The oldest brewpub in the country.

Map↗ Website
Staré Město

U Zlatého tygra

Literary institution

Hrabal's local, still run like one: shared tables, Pilsner Urquell, no menu worth the name and regulars in the same seats for decades. Arrive early.

Map↗ Website
Staré Město

Lokál Dlouhááá

Tank beer

The Ambiente answer to the socialist beer hall: a long tiled room, unfiltered Pilsner from tanks, and Czech classics cooked properly.

Map↗ Website
Klášterní pivovar StrahovHradčany

Klášterní pivovar Strahov

Monastic brewery

The monastery brewery beside the library, pouring St Norbert beers under vaulted ceilings with a terrace over the city.

Map↗ Website
Vinohrady

Vinohradský pivovar

Neighbourhood brewery

A neighbourhood brewery restored in the shell of an 1893 one, full of locals rather than visitors and a fair walk from the tourist map.

Map↗ Website
Staré Město

U Medvídků

Attic brewery

A beer hall on one side and a tiny attic brewery on the other, where X-Beer 33 is one of the strongest lagers in the world. Order a small one.

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Nové Město

Pivovarský dům

Experimental brews

A house brewery that treats lager as a laboratory: nettle, banana, coffee and sour cherry versions that sound worse than they taste.

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Nusle

Zlý časy

Multi-tap

A Nusle multi-tap with dozens of lines and a fridge of bottles behind them, and the place Czech craft brewing gets taken seriously. Worth the tram ride out of the centre.

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Where to eat

Best restaurants in Prague

Ten kitchens across the range, from two Michelin stars to a butcher’s counter you eat at standing up.
All 10 restaurants →
FieldStaré Město

Field

Michelin star

One Michelin star a few minutes from the Jewish quarter, cooking modern Czech tasting menus on foraged and farmed produce.

Map↗ Website
Staré Město

La Degustation Bohême Bourgeoise

Michelin star

Michelin-starred since 2012, the longest run in the country, and built on nineteenth-century Czech cookbooks reworked with modern technique. Open kitchen, one long menu.

Map↗ Website
Karlín

Eska

Bakery and kitchen

A bakery downstairs and a restaurant upstairs in a converted Karlín factory, doing sourdough and Czech ingredients without nostalgia.

Map↗ Website
Nové Město

Kantýna

Butcher and canteen

A butcher's counter and canteen in a former bank hall: point at the cut, pay by weight, find a table. No reservations and a queue at lunch.

Map↗ Website
Staré Město

Naše maso

Standing counter

The butcher shop that changed how Prague eats meat, with a standing counter at the back for a beef burger, a sausage or a plate of tartare made in front of you.

Map↗ Website
Café SavoyMalá Strana

Café Savoy

Grand café

A Viennese-style café under an 1893 Neo-Renaissance ceiling, serving the best-known breakfast in Prague and turning into a proper restaurant after dark. Book, or wait.

Map↗ Website
Café LouvreNové Město

Café Louvre

Café since 1902

Open since 1902 on the first floor above Národní, with billiards at the back and a guest list that once ran to Kafka's circle.

Map↗ Website
Vinohrady

Čestr

Beef and tank beer

Ambiente’s beef restaurant beside the National Museum, working through Czech cattle cut by cut with tank beer to match. The steak counterpart to Kantýna, sat down.

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Vyšehrad

U Kroka

Czech classics

Czech home cooking below the Vyšehrad rock, on a site that has fed the neighbourhood since 1895. Svíčková, duck and dumplings done without a hint of theatre.

Map
Nové Město

Kavárna Slavia

Historic café

The riverside café opposite the National Theatre, dissident haunt in the communist years and still the best window seat in Prague for the castle at dusk.

Map
Beyond the castle

Best museums and galleries in Prague

Eight collections worth a half day, from the national collections to a contemporary centre in a Holešovice factory.
All 8 museums and galleries →
National MuseumNové Město

National Museum

National collections

The neo-Renaissance block closing Wenceslas Square, reopened in 2018 after seven years, with natural history and Czech history split across two buildings.

Map↗ Website
Museum KampaMalá Strana

Museum Kampa

Modern art

The Mládek collection of central European modernism in a restored mill on Kampa island, strongest on Kupka and Gutfreund.

Map↗ Website
DOX Centre for Contemporary ArtHolešovice

DOX Centre for Contemporary Art

Contemporary art

The country’s largest independent contemporary art centre, in a converted Holešovice factory, with a 42 metre wooden airship called Gulliver docked on the roof.

Map↗ Website
Mucha MuseumNové Město

Mucha Museum

Art Nouveau

The Art Nouveau posters that made Alfons Mucha famous in Paris, alongside the drawings for the Slav Epic, now shown at the Savarin Palace complex off Na Příkopě.

Map↗ Website
National Technical MuseumLetná

National Technical Museum

Industry and transport

A transport hall of hanging aircraft, steam locomotives and pre-war Czech cars under one roof on the Letná plateau, plus mining, printing and astronomy floors around it.

Map↗ Website
Lobkowicz PalaceHradčany

Lobkowicz Palace

Private collection

The only privately owned building inside Prague Castle, holding Bruegel's Haymaking, Canaletto's London views and Beethoven and Mozart manuscripts.

Map↗ Website
Malá Strana

Kunsthalle Praha

Contemporary art

A private contemporary art house that opened in 2022 inside the Zenger electrical transformer station below the castle, with a rooftop bar over the river.

Map↗ Website
Prague City MuseumNové Město

Prague City Museum

City history

The city's own museum, and home of Langweil's paper model of Prague, built 1826 to 1837 and the only record of streets later cleared.

Map↗ Website
Where to base yourself

Best neighborhoods in Prague

Six districts, from the Baroque lanes under the castle to the tenement blocks where the city actually eats.
All 6 neighborhoods →
Malá StranaPrague 1

Malá Strana

Baroque and central

The Baroque quarter between the bridge and the castle: palace gardens, embassies and lanes that empty the moment the day trippers leave.

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Prague 1

Staré Město

Old Town

The medieval core inside the river bend, with the Old Town Square, Josefov and most of the city’s crowds. Stay here for the walk to everything and accept the noise.

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Prague 2

Vinohrady

Residential and green

Grand nineteenth-century blocks, wide streets, Riegrovy sady and the best density of cafés outside the centre. Where visitors move on a second trip.

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ŽižkovPrague 3

Žižkov

Pubs and the TV tower

The old working-class district up the hill, with more pubs per head than anywhere else in the city and a television tower with Černý's crawling babies on it.

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Prague 8

Karlín

Rebuilt and eating well

Flooded to the rooftops in 2002 and rebuilt into the city’s food and office district, with Eska, Forum Karlín and a grid of streets running under Vítkov hill.

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Prague 7

Holešovice

Galleries and markets

A river loop of former docks and factories that now holds the Trade Fair Palace, DOX, the market halls and Stromovka park. The clearest sign of where Prague is heading.

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Green Prague

Best parks and viewpoints in Prague

Six places to sit down, four of them with a beer garden and one with a working vineyard.
All 6 parks and viewpoints →
Vinohrady

Riegrovy sady

Beer garden view

A sloping park on the Vinohrady border whose beer garden looks straight at the castle across the valley. Fuller of locals than Letná.

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Holešovice

Stromovka

Royal deer park

The former royal hunting park, flat, wooded and big enough to lose the city in, running from Holešovice to the exhibition grounds with ponds and cycle paths through it.

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Vinohrady

Havlíčkovy sady

Vineyard park

Known to everyone as Grébovka: a nineteenth-century villa park on a south-facing slope with a working vineyard, a grotto and a pavilion that serves the wine made on site.

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Vítkov hillŽižkov

Vítkov hill

Ridge walk

The ridge above Žižkov, crowned by one of the largest equestrian statues in the world. Empty on weekdays, with the sharpest view down onto Karlín.

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Vrtba GardenMalá Strana

Vrtba Garden

Baroque terraces

A terraced Baroque garden climbing the hillside behind a Malá Strana palace, on the UNESCO list and small enough to be missed entirely from the street below.

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Prague 6

Divoká Šárka

Wild valley

A rocky valley on the western edge with a stream, a natural swimming pool and cliffs, reached by tram in half an hour and nothing like the rest of the city.

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What to book

Best music venues in Prague

Five rooms covering the range, from Dvořák Hall to a jazz club moored on the river.
All 5 music venues →
RudolfinumStaré Město

Rudolfinum

Czech Philharmonic

The neo-Renaissance concert house on the river, home of the Czech Philharmonic, whose Dvořák Hall is one of the finest-sounding rooms in Europe.

Map↗ Website
National TheatreNové Město

National Theatre

Opera and ballet

The gold-roofed house on the embankment, paid for twice by public subscription after it burned down weeks into its first season in 1881. Opera, ballet and Czech drama.

Map↗ Website
Jazz DockSmíchov

Jazz Dock

Riverside jazz

A glass box on the Smíchov bank with the water at eye level and two sets most nights. The best-programmed jazz room in the city and small enough to sell out.

Map↗ Website
Lucerna Music BarNové Město

Lucerna Music Bar

Club and live

A basement hall inside the Lucerna passage, running touring indie bands and the long-standing 80s and 90s video party that fills it at weekends.

Map↗ Website
Žižkov

Palác Akropolis

Žižkov institution

The Žižkov institution, a 1927 cultural palace turned music venue, with close to a thousand events a year across world music, indie and theatre.

Map↗ Website
Out of the city

Best day trips from Prague

Eight trips within reach of a day, seven of them by direct train or bus from the centre.
All 8 day trips →
Kutná Hora and the Sedlec OssuaryEast Bohemia

Kutná Hora and the Sedlec Ossuary

About 1 hour by train

A silver-mining town that once rivalled Prague for wealth, with St Barbara's Church at one end and a chapel decorated in bone at the other. An hour by train.

Map↗ Website
Karlštejn CastleCentral Bohemia

Karlštejn Castle

About 40 minutes by train

Charles IV's Gothic treasury castle above the Berounka valley, built to hold the imperial crown jewels. Forty minutes by train, then a walk uphill.

Map↗ Website
North Bohemia

Terezín Memorial

About 1 hour by bus

The fortress town the Nazis turned into a ghetto and transit camp, with the Ghetto Museum and the national cemetery. An hour by bus, and a full day.

Map↗ Website
Plzeň and Pilsner UrquellWest Bohemia

Plzeň and Pilsner Urquell

About 1 hour by train

The city that gave pale lager its name, where the brewery tour ends in the cellars with unfiltered beer drawn straight from an oak lager barrel. About an hour by train.

Map↗ Website
North Bohemia

Bohemian Switzerland

About 2 hours by train

Sandstone towers, gorges and the Pravčická brána rock arch on the German border. Train to Děčín in under two hours, better as an overnight.

Map↗ Website
Karlovy VaryWest Bohemia

Karlovy Vary

About 2 hours by bus

The spa town in the west, all colonnades, hot springs and the film festival every July. Around two hours by bus, and the drinking cups are sold on every corner.

Map↗ Website
Central Bohemia

Konopiště

About 1 hour by train

Franz Ferdinand's country seat, left much as he had it, with the trophies of a man who shot obsessively until Sarajevo. Train to Benešov.

Map↗ Website
Český KrumlovSouth Bohemia

Český Krumlov

About 3 hours by train

A UNESCO-listed medieval town wrapped in a bend of the Vltava under the country's second largest castle. Three hours each way, so go for a night.

Map↗ Website
What's on

Festivals & annual events in Prague (2026)

Time your trip around the city's biggest dates.
Mar

Easter markets

Old Town Square and Wenceslas Square fill with painted eggs, willow whips and hot mead in the weeks around Easter.

May

Prague Marathon

RunCzech takes the course through the Old Town and both banks of the Vltava on the first Sunday in May.

May

Prague Spring International Music Festival

Founded in 1946 and opening every 12 May with Má vlast, on the anniversary of Smetana's death. Three weeks of orchestras.

Jun

Prague Fringe

A week of English-language theatre, comedy and cabaret in small Malá Strana venues, run since 2002 and deliberately unjuried.

Aug

Prague Pride

A week of debates, film and parties ending in a parade from Wenceslas Square to Letná. One of the largest in central Europe.

Oct

Signal Festival

Four October nights of light installations projected onto landmark facades across the centre and Karlín. Free to walk.

Oct

Designblok

Central Europe's biggest design festival: five days of Czech furniture, glass and jewellery in halls and studios.

Dec

Christmas markets

Stalls, a tree and a stage on Old Town Square from late November into January, plus calmer ones in Vinohrady and at the castle.

Getting around

Prague transport & airports

How to arrive and move around the city.
PRG

Václav Havel Airport Prague

About 17 kilometres west of the centre, with no rail link. The Airport Express bus runs to the main station every half hour, and trolleybus 59 goes to Nádraží Veleslavín for metro line A.

Map↗ Website
Rail

Prague hlavní nádraží

The main station is on metro line C a few minutes from Wenceslas Square, under an Art Nouveau hall. Direct trains reach Dresden and Berlin, Vienna, Bratislava and Budapest.

Map↗ Website
PID

Metro, trams and buses

Three metro lines cross in the centre and trams cover everything between them. One ticket covers every mode with unlimited transfers, cheapest in the Lítačka app. Validate before boarding.

Map↗ Website
Taxi

Taxis and rides

Bolt, Uber and the local Liftago all operate, and an app avoids the fare disputes Prague street taxis are known for. Trams run often enough that most visitors never need one.

↗ Prague City Tourism
Traditional food

Must-try dishes in Prague, Czechia

The classics to order before you leave.

Svíčková na smetaně

Beef sirloin in a strained root and cream sauce with bread dumplings and cranberry. The national dish.

Guláš

Beef stewed with onion and paprika until the sauce thickens, served with bread dumplings, not potatoes.

Vepřo knedlo zelo

Roast pork, dumplings and sauerkraut, the Sunday lunch of the Czech lands. White or red cabbage by region.

Kulajda

A creamy soup of dill, potato and wild mushrooms with a poached egg in it, sharpened with vinegar.

Smažený sýr

A thick slab of Edam breaded and fried, with chips and tartare sauce. The standard Czech vegetarian order.

Bramboráky

Potato pancakes fried with garlic and marjoram, eaten as a side or a whole plate. Sold at every market.

Chlebíčky

Open sandwiches on white bread with potato salad, ham, egg and pickles, sold by the piece.

Trdelník

The chimney cake sold on every Old Town corner. Hungarian in origin, and nothing to do with Czech cooking.

Prague fact sheet

Prague at a glance

The essentials worth knowing before you go.
Country
Czechia
Region
Bohemia, in the centre of the country, on the Vltava
Population
About 1.4 million in the city (Czech Statistical Office, 2025)
Founded
Prague Castle founded around 880, the Old Town chartered in the 13th century, the New Town laid out by Charles IV in 1348
Nickname
The City of a Hundred Spires, and matka měst, the mother of cities
Language
Czech, with English widely spoken in the centre
Currency
Czech koruna (CZK, Kč). The euro is not legal tender
Time zone
Central European Time, UTC+1, moving to UTC+2 for summer time from late March to late October
Calling code
+420, with no separate city code
Airports
Václav Havel Airport Prague (PRG), about 17 km west of the centre, with no rail link
Power
230 V, 50 Hz, Type E sockets, so a Type C plug fits and a Type F one needs care
Emergency
112 for everything, or 155 ambulance, 158 police, 150 fire
Ideal length
3 days
Getting around
Walk the centre, trams and three metro lines for everything else, and a tram 22 ride up to the castle
Tourism board
Official site

Interesting facts

  • Charles University was founded here in 1348 and is the oldest in central Europe. Charles IV also built the bridge and the New Town.
  • The word robot entered every language from Prague. Karel Čapek used it in R.U.R. in 1921 and credited his brother Josef with coining it.
  • Prague has thrown officials out of windows twice with consequences: in 1419, which began the Hussite wars, and in 1618.
  • The historic centre came through the Second World War almost untouched. The heaviest bombing was an Allied error in February 1945.
  • The calendar dial on the Astronomical Clock is a copy. Josef Mánes painted the originals in 1866 and the city museum keeps them.

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