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Castle Museum & Tower
Located within the castle complex, this small museum and adjoining tower is an ideal option if you dont have the time or energy for a full castle tour. Through a series of rooms, the museum traces the castles history from its origins through the present day. Climb the tower for the
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Vyšehrad Citadel
The Vyšehrad Citadel refers to the complex of buildings and structures atop Vyšehrad Hill that have played a role in Czech history for over 1000 years. While most structures date from the 18th century, the citadel is still viewed as the city’s spiritual home. The sights are spread
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Puppet Museum
Plzeňs museum of marionettes and puppetry is well done and certainly worth a look in, especially if youre traveling with younger children. The exhibits are understandably heavy on Czech puppet tradition, but theres ample signage in English and even some impromptu puppet performance
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Town Hall
Olomoucs Town Hall dates from the 14th century and is home to one of the quirkier sights in town: an astronomical clock from the 1950s, with a face in Socialist-Realist style. The original was damaged in WWII. At noon the figures put on a little performance. The tower is open twice
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Museum Fotoateliér Seidel
This photography museum presents a moving retrospective of the work of local photographers Josef Seidel and his son František. Especially poignant are the images recording early-20th-century life in nearby villages. In the high season you should be able to join an English-language
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Brewery Museum
The Brewery Museum offers an insight into how beer was made (and drunk) in the days before Prazdroj was founded. Highlights include a mock-up of a 19th-century pub, a huge wooden beer tankard from Siberia and a collection of beer mats. All have English captions and theres a good pr
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Building 14|15 Bata Complex
This museum opened in late 2012, incorporating the holdings of the former Bata Shoe Museum. On display is a permanent exhibition titled The Bata Principle: Today Fantasy, Tomorrow Reality. Tons of interesting and interactive displays on the history of Zlín and the Bata shoe company
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Powder Tower
A passage to the north of St Vitus Cathedral leads to the Powder Tower, also called Mihulka, which was built in the 15th century as part of the castle’s defences. Later it became the workshop of cannon- and bell-maker Tomáš Jaroš, who cast the bells for St Vitus Cathedral. Today it
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Egon Schiele Art Centrum
This excellent private gallery houses a small retrospective of the controversial Viennese painter Egon Schiele (1890–1918), who lived in Krumlov in 1911, and raised the ire of townsfolk by hiring young girls as nude models. For this and other sins he was eventually driven out. The
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Zoo Mořský Svět
The Czech ‘Sea World’ has the largest water tank in the country, with a capacity of around 100,000L. Some 4500 living species of fish and sea creatures are on display, with a good (and suitably scary) set of sharks. The cramped interior will be disappointing if you’re used to large
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Civil Defence Shelter
Olomouc is all about centuries-old history, but this more recent relic of the Cold War is also worth exploring on a guided tour. The shelter was built between 1953 and 1956 and was designed to shelter a lucky few from the ravages of a chemical or nuclear strike. Tours are arranged
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Prague Planetarium
The planetarium in Stromovka park, just west of Výstaviště, presents various slide and video presentations in addition to the star shows. Most shows are in Czech only, but one or two of the more popular ones provide a text summary in English (check the website for details). There’s
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Staropramen Brewery
More of a museum visit than an actual brewery tour, the presentation here focuses on the 100-plus years of history of the brewery, the only big Czech brewer based in Prague. The reward for your time is a glass of Staropramen at the end. Call or check tour times on the door. English
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Smetana Museum
This small museum is devoted to Bedřich Smetana, Bohemia’s favourite composer. It isn’t that interesting unless you’re a Smetana fan, and has only limited labelling in English, but there’s a good exhibit on popular-culture’s feverish response to Smetana’s opera The Bartered Bride –
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Holy Hill
This uphill venture scales the 1km path to a 363m peak, through a nature reserve and past grottoes depicting the Stations of the Cross, to the compact Church of St Sebastian . The blue-marked trail begins at the bottom of the main square on Svobody. The whitewashed church and the l
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Goat Hill
Goat Hill is topped with an abandoned 15th-century lookout tower offerring stunning views over the Old Town. To find it, walk steeply uphill from the entrance to the Jewish Cemetery. Note the tower keeps irregular hours: its only open when the flag is flying. But even if the tower
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Petřín Funicular Railway
First opened in 1891, Prague’s funicular railway now uses modern coaches that trundle back and forth on 510m of track, saving visitors a climb up Petřín hill. It runs every 10 minutes (every 15 minutes November to March) from Újezd to the Petřín Lookout Tower, with a stop at Nebozí
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Ossuary
This ghoulish 20-minute tour through the former burial grounds and crypts below the Church of St James displays the collected bones and remains of some 50,000 people who perished from wars, famines and plagues over the centuries. The remains were discovered in 2001 during the renov
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Museum Montanelli
Tourists, drawn in by an attractive cafe and bookshop, rub shoulders with connoisseurs of the Czech art world in this private gallery. Having rapidly become a focus for contemporary art in Prague, it provides a showcase for up-and-coming artists from Central and Eastern Europe, as
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Assumption of the Virgin Mary
Valtice’s most significant church is this early baroque work, dating from the middle of the 17th century. Take a look inside to admire the rare baroque organ from the 18th century. Behind the main altar are two significant paintings: the larger is a copy of a Rubens, but the smalle
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