Tomáš Havelka
Prague past the Old Town
Based in Prague, Czechia.
Prague culture writer on the Karlín galleries, the Mucha windows of St Vitus and Veletržní's functionalist lines.
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Vyšehrad, Prague: the quiet fortress above the Vltava
Prague’s clifftop afterthought is really its calmest great hit: a free fortress park with the city’s oldest building, a national cemetery, and a sunset that makes the rest of Prague look slightly overbooked.
Vinohrady, Prague: Belle-Époque Streets, Beer Gardens and the Best Local Table in Town
Prague’s Vinohrady is where the city loosens its tie: a residential belle-époque grid of parks, markets, microbreweries and long dinners, only a few metro stops from the centre.
Staré Město, Prague: the old core that still knows how to misbehave
Prague’s Old Town is the city’s medieval postcard, but the real story starts one street back, where tank beer, serious cooking and late-night noise still share the same stones.
Smíchov, Prague: beer, transit and the city at street level
A left-bank district of brewery chimneys, fast trams and proper neighbourhood life, where Prague feels lived in rather than posed.
Nové Město, Prague: the city’s working centre with grand cafés and river nights
Charles IV’s New Town is Prague at full volume: a practical, architectural, café-lined district where you walk from Wenceslas Square to the river, with room for museums, markets, theatres and a late drink if you know where to stand.
Malá Strana, Prague: baroque calm below the castle
A walk through Prague’s Lesser Town, where castle views, garden walls, and the last decent lunch before the bridge crowd make the city slow down.
Karlín, Prague: where the city eats, drinks and quietly reinvents itself
A post-flood Prague neighbourhood of bakeries, taprooms and restored industry, Karlín is where locals go to eat well without the Old Town theatre.
Žižkov, Prague: the city’s scruffier, livelier uphill quarter
A walk through Prague’s beer-soaked, hill-climbing district of TV towers, wartime memory, late kitchens and pubs that keep the lights on long after the centre has gone polite.
Holešovice, Prague: the city’s rough-edged creative quarter
A post-industrial Prague 7 district where slaughterhouses became markets, factories became galleries, and the night still belongs to bass, beer and the occasional good carbonara.
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