Peak summer. Hot, busy and lively — with the compensation that half the city moves outdoors.
Still winter, but the light is coming back. Carnival season, Valentine's crowds for a weekend, and the last cheap month before spring.
Prague at its emptiest and its cheapest. Cold, often grey, occasionally covered in snow that makes the Old Town look like a stage set.
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.
Looking for a unique day trip from Brno? Step into a world where the rugged charm of the Wild West meets the scenic beauty...
Kafka, Dvořák, Mucha, Navrátilová — the Czechs whose work travelled further than their country ever did.
Soft contact lenses, sugar cubes, Semtex and the word 'robot' — the improbable list of things invented in the Czech lands.
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.
One in ten crowns of Czech GDP comes from making cars. A plain guide to what this country produces and who buys it.