The oldest survivor of the ghetto and the spiritual centre of the Jewish community for over 700 years, the Old-New Synagogue is a rather forlorn piece of medievalism that's now...

The Old Jewish Cemetery, where all of Prague's Jewish residents were buried until the late 1600s, is one of the eeriest remnants of the city's once-thriving Jewish community....

The Premonstratensian Order (or Norbertines) set up house at this monastery in 1140 and soon after embarked upon their austere programme of silent contemplation and celibacy....

You'd be hard-pressed to envisage the riches contained within this amazing pile from the wrong side of its sizeable walls. And indeed, it's too often eclipsed by the more...

The newest location for this library, an evolving project established in 2004, gives it proper prominence and offers the best public access set up thus far to the journals,...

Built from curvaceous expanses of wrought iron and designed to house the Jubilee Exhibition of 1891, Výstavištê played a key role in Prague's art nouveau movement. During the...

With nearly 5,000 animals and 652 species in residence, Prague Zoo is often ranked among the best in the world. Since it was hit by floods in 2002, the zoo's inmates have...

Still one of the top draws for kids on Prague's most popular hill, the weather-worn Mirror Maze has old-time appeal, thanks to its mock-Gothic castle appearance, complete with...

The Old Synagogue (or Altschul), older still than the Old-New Synagogue, stood on this site as an island in Christian territory, to which Jews could cross from the main ghetto...

Enlightened aristocrats trying to rouse Prague from provincial stupor founded the Šternberg Gallery in the 1790s. Located just outside the gates of Prague Castle, the palace...

This huge, thrusting, three-pillared television tower has long been dubbed the Pražský pták, or 'Prague Prick', by local admirers. Seemingly modelled on a Soyuz rocket ready...