Kultura

From January to Shrove Tuesday, Prague dances. The big balls, what they cost, what to wear, and how the evening actually runs.

For the whole of September, buildings that are closed the rest of the year open their doors across Prague — most of them free.

Six days in October when Prague’s galleries, palaces and studios fill with Czech design. Dates, venues, tickets and what is actually worth queueing for.

From May to September the Czech Senate opens its baroque garden for free concerts — including the Prague Symphony Orchestra in late August.

Three weeks of contemporary circus and theatre in tents on Letná Park, every August. No animals, no sequins — acrobatics as art.

Signal Festival turns Prague into light art for four October evenings. Routes, times, what is free and how to avoid the worst of the crowds.

Mucha's Slav Epic, Kupka's first abstractions and the Czech cubists — where to see the country's greatest art.

Kafka, Švejk, Čapek's robots and the novelists who wrote through occupation — a guide to Czech literature.

A country of ten million produced four composers who changed classical music. Where their work came from, and where to hear it.

Five centuries of glassmaking, garnet jewellery and cubist furniture — what is genuinely Czech and what is an import in a souvenir shop.