In 1897, the young artists of the Viennese secession sent shockwaves through Europe with their radical new approach to art …

Caught between two highways that sweep westwards to Prague airport, the suburbs of Střešovice and Břevnov retain a curiously quiet, …

The Benedictine convent of St George at Prague Castle was already long established when, in 1228, King Otakar I of …

Originally a shrine to the Virgin built by the Cistercian order from nearby Plasy, the Church of the Annunciation at …

On the eastern slopes of Letná hill, overlooking the Vltava, this unusual modernist pavilion looks as if it has been …

The vicinity of the Czech National Bank has been a trading quarter ever since the Middle Ages, when precious metals …

In the latter half of the nineteenth century, Czech politics was dominated by one question: how to gain greater autonomy …

The ornate Parisian-style apartment blocks of Kodaňská Street and its immediate neighbourhood are some of the most impressive domestic houses …

The street in Prague’s Vinohrady district named after the composer Frédéric Chopin presents, as they say, a ‘smorgasbord’ of historical …

Visitors to Prague cannot fail to be struck by the number of monuments and locations that bear the name ‘Charles’. …

Orlík takes its name from ‘orel’, the Czech word for an eagle; and indeed for many centuries this rocky outcrop …

These fine art nouveau apartments on the border of the Vinohrady and Žižkov districts date from 1910; they were built …

A stone’s throw from the east end of the Cathedral of Saint Vitus stands the smaller but no less significant …

These handsome semi-detached villas in Prague’s Střešovice district look just as though they were uprooted from suburban London, the new …

Halfway along the impressive southern rampart of Prague Castle stands the Ludvík wing, a five-storey bastion built between 1503 and …

Rising impressively from a rocky bluff south of the city, the ancient fortified settlement of Vyšehrad dates from the tenth …

Vyšehrad cemetery was established in 1869 as a national burial ground for eminent Czechs from all walks of life, but …

In 1887, a small group of Czech artists and writers came together to found the Mánes Society of Fine Arts. …

The first trains passed through this northern suburb of Prague in 1850, but it was not until 1873 that a …