Prague, Czech Republic Travel News

Dec 13th 2009 at 3:02PM Not long ago we would have believed that Prague had everything.

The number of passengers cleared at the Prague-Ruzyne airport grew by 2 percent on the year in November, showing the first year-on-year increase this year, Eva Krejci, spokeswoman of the airport's operator Letiste Praha, told CTK yesterday.

"You've got to go to Prague." Ask anyone who has been and that's what you'll hear.

Question: My friend and I will be in Prague in December. As part of our tour package, we will be taking a drive of the city with stops at Prague Castle, St.

By SUSAN MANSFIELD FROM the parapets of Prague Castle, you have a sweeping panorama of the "city of 100 spires". From here, you can see baroque towers, gothic splendour and Soviet-era tower blocks.

The substitute plane taking home the U.S. soldiers who had an emergency landing at Prague-Ruzyne airport in the night of Thursday left Prague shortly before 02:00 today, airport spokeswoman Eva Krejci told CTK.

November 17, 1989 marked the autumn of change in former Czechoslovakia twenty years ago.

With their country in deep political crisis, Czechs took to the streets throughout the country Tuesday to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the end of decades of repressive communist rule.

It seems insane to fly across the ocean and spend thousands of dollars for the opportunity to make a few pieces of bad art when I could stay home and make reams of pictures no one wants to see.

Czech-Japanese entrepreneur Tomio Okamura is a household name in the Czech Republic, both for running a successful tourist business to representing one of the country's largest tourist associations.

Cross the river at the Legii Bridge rather than the Charles Bridge ? far fewer people and equally good views Why go? Despite 45 years of communism, Prague maintained its medieval heart and an architectural legacy that incorporates gothic and baroque, rococo and art nouveau.

OUR REGULAR BAGENALSTOWN CORRESPONDENT, MARGARET CUSHEN, THIS WEEK REPORTS FROM THE CAPITAL CITY OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC RATHER THAN SOUTH COUNTY CARLOW Tuesday November 10 2009 Afew weeks I got a great deal for five days in Prague, 215 which included a twohour return flight with Ryanair and five nights in a lovely hotel with breakfast, just ten ...

Prague is a city full of surprises to the unsuspecting visitor. Its affordability is legendary, its hospitality welcoming, and it is once again coming out of the shadows of the stag night hoards who did nothing for its reputation as - it can instantly be ascertained - one of the most beautiful cities in Europe.

The new Czech Info Center is probably the most unique European cultural center in Korea and perhaps even in East Asia.

When Australian Aborigine males reach adolescence, they have a rite of passage called "walkabout," during which they leave their homes and journey across the wilderness to forge a deep connection with the Earth.

Not long after moving to Prague at the start of 1991, Englishman Richard Drury began working as a curator at the Central Bohemian Gallery, previously known as the Czech Museum of Fine Arts, on HusovA St.

An early, 11 AM start . Breakfast at Bohemian Bagel around the corner doesn't disappoint.

Jan Sifner says Prague Planetarium "needed" to go digital. Sitting in a cushy blue chair, you see the night sky displayed before you as large as life.

New management has been flown into Czech carrier Czech Airlines. The changes come ahead of key decisions about the loss-making airline's future.

THE KRIZIK FOUNTAIN. The Krizik Fountain perfectly adapts into the Bohemian atmosphere of Prague offering a unique spectacle of music, water, ballet and colours.