Praha Blog ยท Prague

Most visitors see
four streets.

Prague receives millions of visitors who mostly walk the same route between the square, the bridge and the castle. The city's own institutions are better company than the operators working that route.

Prague's centre is one of the most concentrated tourism markets in Europe, and the businesses along it are optimised accordingly. The interesting version of the city is a short walk away and largely documented by the municipality and the national museums, in English, free. Start with them.

The reading list

Link-out only. Governments, institutions and primary data, not tour operators.

The city itself

  1. City of Prague

    Municipality · Primary

    The city's own portal, in English. Transport, events and civic information straight from the source rather than an aggregator.

  2. National Museum

    National museum · Institution

    The main building on Wenceslas Square reopened after a long reconstruction. The collections span natural history to Czech national history.

  3. Prague

    Wikipedia · Reference

    A thousand years of it, properly sourced, including the twentieth century that the castle tour tends to skim.

Practical

  1. Czechia travel advice

    UK Foreign Office · Advisory

    Entry rules and the practical warnings, including the well-documented taxi and currency-exchange scams in the centre.

  2. Prague

    Wikivoyage · Guide

    Volunteer-written and ad-free, and specific about which central businesses to avoid in a way a funded guide cannot be.

  3. Czechia

    CIA World Factbook · Reference

    Standard-format country data.