Karlstejn Castle stands as one of the most impressive Gothic fortresses in Central Europe, a majestic hilltop castle built by Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV in the 14th century to house the imperial crown jewels, holy relics, and the royal treasury. Located approximately 30 kilometres southwest of Prague, it is the most visited castle in […]
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Castle Hluboka rises from the Bohemian countryside in a vision of white turrets and ornate gables that look more like a fairy tale illustration than a real fortress. Originally built as a Gothic castle in the 13th century, it was completely rebuilt in the 19th century to resemble Windsor Castle in England. The Schwarzenberg family, […]
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Český Krumlov is one of the most beautiful small towns in Europe, a UNESCO World heritage jewel in southern Bohemia, encircled by a dramatic horseshoe bend of the Vltava River, whose perfectly preserved medieval and Renaissance centre is dominated by the sprawling, multi-coloured Krumlov Castle, the second-largest castle complex in the Czech Republic after Prague […]
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Loket Castle is one of the Czech Republic’s most dramatically situated medieval fortresses, a 12th-century Gothic castle perched on a granite rock surrounded on three sides by the Ohře River, in the charming little town of Loket near Karlovy Vary in western Bohemia. With its well-preserved medieval interiors, gruesome torture chamber exhibition, and a famous […]
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Updated: September 21, 2020 | By Claire | More Prague Zoo is a beautiful piece of nature located at the bottom part of the Prague, in Troja district. History of breeding of exotic animals in Prague is much older than it looks, it goes back to the first kings periods. By visiting the Prague Zoo […]
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Every tree in Natural Park Seben seems to have its own ant city built at its base. These mounds, some reaching over a metre in height, are the work of wood ants that have colonised this corner of the Czech Republic for centuries. The park protects what is believed to be the largest concentration of […]
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Prague is a city of more than one hundred spires, nine historic districts, over 1,000 years of continuous urban development, and the sixth most visited city in Europe, receiving approximately 8 million tourists annually, a figure that has grown steadily since the fall of the Iron Curtain made this impossibly beautiful city accessible to the […]
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The Czech Republic is the best beer country in the world, the birthplace of Pilsner, the nation with the highest per capita beer consumption on Earth (over 140 litres per person per year), and a land whose brewing tradition stretches back over a thousand years, producing some of the finest and most affordable beer you […]
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