GENERAL PRAGUE TOURS

Please, remember – this is your private tour. So I can combine any topic you would like to talk about. When you book Old Town area tour and you would like to hear a bit more about communism, architecture, present life style and so on, I will do my best to satisfy you and provide you in depth explanation! Also duration of tours is just a suggestion. Usually it is no problem to make a tour longer – there is always something interesting to show you here…


PRAGUE INTRODUCTION/HIGHLIGHTS TOUR – 4 HOURS
Highlights you shouldn’t miss! Prague Castle, Lesser Town, Charles Bridge, Jewish Quarter, Old Town Square with famous Astronomical Clock.
You will see the most interesting sights of Prague! It will be quick introduction to our history, to our beautiful town, it will help you to find your bearings, but still enough time for funny stories and, if required - coffee break, if you are not really fast walker!


PRAGUE FULL DAY /ALL-IN-ONE TOUR - 8 HOURS
You will see all highlights of Prague! Like during Prague introduction tour, just more leasurely, more in depth, more detailed and with interiors! 8 hours gives you a time to explore Prague Castle interiors, to enjoy colored facades of ancient houses of Lesser Town, to have a lunch break in some local restaurant, to walk across the Charles Bridge and stop there for a while to enjoy a spectacular view over Prague Castle.


PRAGUE CASTLE AREA (WITH INTERIORS) - 4 HOURS
The best place to start this tour is on the top of the hill, with amazing view over the whole city centre, with optional visit of Strahov monastery interiors and its wonderful baroque libraries. Not far away is another attraction of the area: pilgrimage site called Loreta with beautiful religious item – a monstrance, decorated with 6222 diamonds! Once being here, you shouldn’t miss picturesque New World, surprisingly very quiet, of the beaten tracks.



OLD TOWN and NEW TOWN AREA - 4 HOURS
“It is not real! It is a fairy tale!” How many times I have heard these words… But it is real ancient architecture of the spectacular Old Town Square with its medieval houses, spires of churches, monumental monument of Czech national hero Jan Hus, and of course, the famous Astronomical Clock! I always say to my guests: Not to see this clock working it means, you haven’t been to Prague!


JEWISH TOWN - 3 to 4 HOURS
Jews and Czechs have been living here together for one thousand year! Inspiring each other, but not always living in harmony. As anywhere in Europe, even here Jews were attacked by their neighbours in the past… But the worst time came with World War II. Prague was very first occupied capital in Europe and Nazi had enough time to carry out their diabolic plans.


COMMUNISM TOUR - 4 HOURS
My country used to be one of the richest countries in the world! After forty years of communism you found here ruins instead of medieval monasteries, empty shops, where you wouldn’t find bananas or jeans, grey houses, dirty, dug out streets, and people, which wouldn’t talk to their neighbours about politics – STB (Czech version of KGB) was omnipresent!


WWII - 4 HOURS
The Munich conference started tragedy of Czech people. Small country was first to be occupied by Nazis. Six years under the swastika meant for us a permanent thread to be sent to a concentration camp or being executed immediately. But many people decided to resist! Let’s join me to hear stories about heroism of Czech people. I will also answer the most frequent question: why Prague wasn’t damaged during the war?


SURVIVING 20TH CENTURY - 4 HOURS
Not only communism, but the whole 20th century was not really peaceful in the Central Europe. WWI started when archduke Ferdinand d’Este was assassinated in Sarajevo. But he lived for many years in castle Konopiste, very close to Prague… And his assassinator was imprisoned and eventually died in a jail in vicinity of Prague as well! Prosperous Czechoslovakia was smashed by Nazi occupation 1938 – 1945. But the highest representative of Nazi hierarchy who was ever assassinated was killed here in Prague by Czech heroes 1942! Russian tanks brought here not really freedom 1945, as we were hopping, but communist dictatorship. They came back again 20 years later and this time it was even worse – they brought us despair…


PUB CRAWL
Something different: what about to explore disappearing world of traditional Czech pubs? There are less and less of them, every year some of them are turned into fancy bar, McDonalds or Italian restaurant. But there is something in it: oak tables, lots of regulars and sometimes even special characters, best beer in the world, typical Czech beer snacks…