Jana Budinská, Author at Hotel Rott

Post-Covid Prague – challenges and chances for the city of hundred spires

Image of Prague today Prague, June 2020, early morning in the Old Town Square. The sun slowly rises behind the two Gothic towers of the Lady before the Týn Cathedral, the sandstone of the newly erected Virgin Mary Column shines brightly, almost improperly, into all corners, as an old lady feeds thoughtlessly pigeons on the […]

11 best museums to visit in Prague

You arrived to Prague to enjoy its numerous beauties, and it´s raining cats and dogs. Your initial sightseeing turns into a complete failure and all the clothes you went in are soaked by rain… but do not worry, there are many great activities in the city you can do indoors– as visiting one of the many […]

The Little (or Lesser) Town of Prague

Names are often misleading. Coming from the long forgotten past, their origin and reasons are lost and we only guess why and how they appeared. The part of the historic centre of Prague called Little – or Lesser – town is neither smaller, nor less important or pretty than other parts of the old Prague. […]

10 tips what to do in Prague (on and around the Vltava river)

River in the life of Prague Just as the Thames for the Londoners, or Seine for Parisians, the Vltava river has always played an essential role in the life of the city of Prague: from being the source of drinking water (which still remains partially true nowadays) to serving as an important way of transportation, […]

The Střelecký ostrov – A calm oasis in the middle of action

The Střelecký ostrov (roughly translated as the Shooters island) is one of ten small islands on the Vltava river, that are within the city area. It is crossed by the Bridge of Legions (Most Legií), and connects the Masarykovo and Smetanovo embankment on the western side of Vltava with the Janáčkovo embankment on the East. […]

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10 Best sights to see in Prague

Prague is a city with well preserved architecture built within the last millenium, as well as many other attractions that are worth visiting – so saying what is the best depends mainly on the tastes of the visitor than any general opinion. Nevertheless, there is a certain portfolio of sights a visitor should see no matter […]

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How to get from Prague airport into the city?

Prague airport, unlike the airports in many different cities of the world, was not built very far from the city itself. This had a very prosaic reason: the construction site was open in July 1932 at the height of the Great depression, with a goal to provide work to a large amount of people – […]

3 days in Prague – 3 days for three historical parts of Prague

Seeing the history of the city backwards Learning the history of a place is not an easy thing, and it is even more complicated if the history was very long and colourful. Which is just the case of Prague, the heart of Europe, marked by all significant European events within the last millenium. We have […]

Best restaurant in the Old Town of Prague – a small visitor guideline

Defining anything as being the best is always a delicate matter, even more so if you do not have a precise and objective qualities or attributes you can measure. In terms of eating, the affair gets even more complicated, as it lies on utterly subjective fields of tastes, personal inclinations, national and local pecularities and […]

Prague lookout towers and views

Have you ever thought of having a look at the beauty of the Czech capital, but also for example at our hotel from above? Prague is a city of hills, so it’s no wonder that a number of lookout towers and observation points has grown up here. Just climb a few stairs or take the […]

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