Chapter 01
The beer costs less than water
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Destination · Czech Republic
Prague, Czech Republic
The city that refused to be erased
Prague kept its stones when every other Central European city lost theirs, and the weight of that survival is still visible in every street.
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Climate
Four distinct seasons with teeth — summers are warm and occasionally thundery, winters are grey and cold enough to matter, and spring arrives late but with conviction.
Best season
May and early October: the crowds thin slightly, the light is low and golden, and the city stops performing quite so hard for the camera.
Atmosphere
- urban-dense
- old-world
- cosmopolitan
- literary
- artsy
- culinary
- nocturnal
- walkable
- post-industrial
- design-forward
The chapters
12 ways to get lost here
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Chapter 02
Kafka's city still doesn't explain itself
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Chapter 03
Cubism built into the walls
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Chapter 04
Bohemia taught the world to spa
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Chapter 05
The city that kept its stones
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Chapter 06
Velvet and what came after
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Chapter 07
Svíčková deserves your full attention
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Chapter 08
The river divides more than geography
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Chapter 09
Jazz survived here when it wasn't supposed to
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Chapter 10
Alfons Mucha drew the whole nation into being
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Chapter 11
Five days each July, Karlovy Vary becomes cinema
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Chapter 12
Vinohrady is the neighborhood Prague keeps for itself
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