Prague (Praha) Staré Město

Despite being overrun with tourists and dog dung while distinctly lacking in authentic Czech culture, Old Town still enchants like a princess doped on charm pills. There's Old Town Hall, or what's left of it after sore-loser Nazis bombed it on the war's last day. Then there's the Astronomical Clock Tower, a mathematical wonder tracking the planet's motions. Our Lady Before Tyn keeps the bones of the guy who first described those motions. Last but not least, there's Estates Theater where Mozart “premiered” Don Giovanni. You'll have to read this history between the lines (well, between the crystal shops and marionette stores), but even though wiser travelers will eat and sleep in Prague's less besieged quarters, no one—not even he who passes through Prague for a mere hour—should miss the Old Town.

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