PRAGUE IS THE BIGGEST AND OLDEST CITY IN THECZECH REPUBLIC. THE SLAV POPULATION BEGAN TOSETTLE IN THE PRAGUE BASIN IN THE SECOND HALF OFTHE 9TH CENTURY.THERE ARE MANY INTERESTING AND BEAUTIFULBUILDINGS / CHURCHES / STREETS ETC.THE BEST VIEWS OF PRAGUE AND OF THE RIVER VLTAVAARE FROM PRAGUE CASTLE / PRA SK HRAD / AND FROMPET 345. N HILL WHERE IS ALSO AN OBSERVATIONTOWER A FREE COPY OF THE EIFFEL TOWER IN PARISFROM 1891 AND A FUNICULAR.THE OLD EXHIBITION GROUND / V STAVI T 283. / WASORIGINALLY BUILT ON THE SOUTHEAST PERIPHERY OFTHE ROYAL ENCLOSURE CALLED STROMOVKA FOR THEJUBILEE EXHIBITION IN 1891 AND FOR THEETHNOGRAPHICAL EXHIBITION IN 1895. AFTER 1918PRAGUE SAMPLE FAIRS TOOK PLACE HERE. FRANTI EKK 345.I K S FOUNTAIN IS A RELIC OF THE JUBILEEEXHIBITION IN 1891 BUT ITS MANY COLOURED SHOW OFLIGHTS IS THE MOST ATTRACTIVE EVEN FOR TODAY SSPECTATORS.CENTER OF THE CITYCHARLES BRIDGE / KARL 367.V MOST / A NATIONALCULTURAL MONUMENT WHICH IS DUE TO ITS HISTORICALROLE AND CULTURAL VALUE A DOMINANT FEATURE OFTHE CITY.OLD TOWN SQUARE / STAROM 283.STSK N M 283.ST/ DUE TO ITS HISTORICAL ROLE IT IS ONE OF THEMOST PROMINENT CULTURAL MONUMENTS OF PRAGUE.T N CHURCH CHURCH OF THE VIRGIN A SPLENDIDGOTHIC BUILDING WITH A NAVE AND TWO AISLESFOUNDED IN 1365 ON THE SITE OF A PREVIOUSROMANESQUE AND LATER GOTHIC CHURCH. ITS SPIRESOF HEIGHT 80 M DOMINATE THE OLD TOWN SQUARE.GOLDEN LANE / ZLAT ULI 269.KA / ACCORDING TOA LEGEND ALCHEMISTS WERE TRYING TO PRODUCE THEPHILOSOPHERS STONE HERE DURING THE REIGN OFRUDOLF II. BUT ACTUALLY THE CASTLE ARCHERS ANDGOLDSMITHS LIVED HERE.NERUDA STREET / NERUDOVA ULICE / IT LINKS THELESSER TOWN SQUARE WITH PRAGUE CASTLE AND IS ONEOF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL STREETS.OUR SPECIAL TIP FOR A TRIP PRINCESY CASTLEKHRASTEN LATER CALLED VY EHRAD JOINED WITH THEOLD CZECH LEGENDS. ORIGINATED ON THE OTHER BANKOF THE RIVER VLTAVA IN THE FIRST OF THE 10THCENTURY. AT THE END OF THE 11TH CENTURY