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This city is far away from Prague, almost 4 hours with car, if you have not traffic jam. So if you need go to Ostrava to business meeting like me, the best way is to catch train “Pendolino” which is going to Ostrava in three hours.  The first one is starting from Prague in 5:23 and you sould catch first metro (it start in 4:45). Then you will be in Ostrava in cca 8:30. It is rally good that the train stops just in few train station (Prague m.s. – Pardubice –  Olomouc – Ostrava–Svinov –  Ostrava m.s.).

However you are travelling in the best train in Czech Republic, the second class does not have electricity for laptops and the train should be little bit more clear (sits and tables). But the restaurant wagon is cheap.

So here are some photos:

During the year, tourist in Prague visited a lot of places. The most visited place is the Prague Castle with more than 1,3mil visits. Second most visited place is ZOO Prague with 1,1mil visits. Next two are the Jewish museum with 0,6mil visits and National Museum with 0,5mil visits. The Old-town-square-hall have 0,4mil visitor per year.

Top ten most visited places in Czech Republic:

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I enjoy walking at (night) in Prague. On this unusual website I want to write about some special places in Prague, which you can enjoy too. My goal is to show you the capital city „Prague“ in an unusual light. You can enjoy your visit i Prague more, read about interesting places or know history of Prague. The second reason for this article is to practise my English.

A Short River Walk

Short river walk - Prague Walking

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As I have said, I like walking at night Prague. Some years ago I „discovered“ walking along the Vltava river. The first reason was to take different photos of Prague Castle at night. After this journey I have started walking along the river more often.
Starting at „Namesti republiky“ which is a nice square and there is the Metro, which is called with same name. There is the Paladium shoping center. This square is close to the river bank. From this place you can walk to river along „Revolucni Street“ and before the bridge turn left.You now have the Vltava River on your right, and on left is interesting government building department of something. So, after five minutes of walking you will see the entrance to the river bank and a place where the ships are parked. This river bank is built from stone and it is right place for walking and for bicycle. In a few minutes you will see two interesting places on the other side of the river. The first place is, where 30 years ago there was a „large monument of Stalin“ (Communist Russian politician). Today this place is for taking photos of a river scene with several Prague’s bridges. This place is also a popular area for skaters and in-line skaters. The second view from the river bank is the unusual scenery of Prague Castle.

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St Nicholas Church on Lesser Town

St Nicholas Church on Lesser Town is placed between Prague Castle and Charles Bridge. This big church have robust dome and thin bell-tower and they are an inseparable part of the Prague Castle skyline. The size of „the church building“ is monumental: it is 40 metres wide and 60 metres long. Construction of church building was commenced by master-builder P.Bos who was shortly replaced by Giovanni D. Orsi. To build the church need almost 70 years, the decisive phase began only after 1702 and that according to the new variant, the authorship of which is ascribed to Kristof Dientzenhofer. He died in 1722 and the building was finished by his son Kilian I. Dienzenhofer. Construction of the Church of St Nicholas significantly contributed to the development of height Baroque architecture in Prague.

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This weekend I have been on the Karlštejn. It is really good tip for tourist. There are good connection with train from mail train station, may be 45 minutes whit train, and then you have to go 2 KM from train station to the Karlštejn castle. And the train is gong each 40 minutes. There are two tour firs one is shorter for 250Kc and second one is now closed and it is for 500Kc.

There are a lot of shops, nice restaurants. You can make nice photos and see part of our history focusing to Charles IV.

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