Prague

Prague was under communist rule for over 40 years and seldom visited by tourists until after the Velvet Revolution on 17 November 1989

From the moment freedom came to the streets, the city started enjoying a huge economic boom, even more so after the Czech Republic joined the European Union in 2004

Now, it is a very popular tourist destination – according to statistics, it is the 6th most visited city in Europe

The city is situated on both banks of the River Vltava in central Bohemia

Prague is the Czech Republic‘s capital and the cradle of Czech culture

Many famous writers, artists, athletes and sportspeople, models and film

directors were born here

Prague has a huge number of buildings of special architectural interest

In 1992, the historical centre of the city, covering 866 hectares (334 square miles), was listed in the UNESCO World Cultural and Natural Heritage Register

No matter where you go, you will discover parts of the city’s multilayer history dating back to the Holy Roman Empire, the Habsburg Empire, the first Czechoslovak Republic (1918), the Nazi Protectorate of  Bohemia and Moravia, the Communist Republic of Czechoslovakia to the present time of a democratic Czech Republic