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What to Do in Prague During Autumn
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- Created on Tuesday, 30 October 2012 11:50
- Last Updated on Monday, 12 November 2012 16:05
- Published on Tuesday, 30 October 2012 11:50
- Written by Farouk Hamzi
Autumn is a great season to visit Prague. The town starts to welcome its international tourists with the main aim to visit major sights of the city. The fresh air of autumn starts to be felt in the air, creating the perfect excuse to warm up with a hot check meal in one of the city's typical hospodas. Even if you were in Prague before during another season of the year, consider visiting the city in autumn, it's worth the experience.
Autumn Weather in Prague
Weather in Prague during autumn has the potential to be chilly. However, expect leftover summer warmth during the days if you travel in early November. Towards the middle of December and into January, colder temperatures begin to be felt. Mornings and evenings will almost certainly be chilly, even when the sky is clear.
Pack long sleeves and layering pieces as well as a jacket or coat. Consider what end of the autumn season you'll be traveling: you may only need a sweater if you're traveling in September, but if your trip is in November, you will require outerwear even during the day. Climate in autumn is still sombre and bearable as winters knock the doors of Prague only in mid November. The days start becoming shorter and clouds start turning the city grey with shadows. Still, the city with red-brown rooftops, graceful bridges decorating free flowing rivers, colourful nature wears a golden tone during the season of autumn and makes you feel as if you are a part of living fairy-tale town. Spellbound views from city's Charles Bridge and Vltava River definitely carve a niche in your mind.
Here is a photo gallery of Autumn in Prague
Autumn Events
autumn Prague events will appeal to music lovers. The Sacred Arts Music Festival, featuring choral, gospel, and other sacred music, runs through the month of September. Also look for the popular Prague Autumn music festival, an anticipated event that follows in the tradition of Prague Spring. In October, the International Jazz Festival celebrates one of the city's favorite types of music.
autumn Activities
Travel to Prague in autumn is a relaxed affair. Fewer lines at major attractions such as St. Vitus Cathedral makes taking in the city enjoyable, so be sure to hit Prague's must-see sights or any other sights that you have missed on previous trips to the Czech capital.
Tuck into some hearty Czech fare, which may be too heavy for summer weather, while you're in Prague during autumn. Meat dishes are most often accompanied by potato or bread dumplings. You'll also find warming soups and stews on Czech restaurant menus. Prague's restaurants will keep their patios open as long as weather permits—outdoor heaters will keep you cozy and allow you to watch evening autumn as you enjoy your meal.
Consider participating in one of Prague's seasonal events or checking museums for special exhibitions. When the weather gets too cold for outdoor sightseeing, head indoors to any one of Prague's museums. If you're still looking for ways to fill your time, check out 50 Things to Do in Prague, an extensive list of activities for a wide variety of travel personalities.
Booking a apartment for autumn Travel to Prague
Making apartment reservations for autumn travel to Prague is easier than it is during summer, when centrally located apartments fill up with tourists who want to travel during the hottest season. While booking well in advance is still recommended, a greater variety of rooms will be available and prices may be more favorable. If staying in Old Town isn't important to you, consider one of the other well-located areas of historic Prague, such as Mala Strana or the Castle District.
Hotels in Prague are Dirtier than Hotels in Warsaw and Bratislava
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- Created on Thursday, 30 August 2012 18:53
- Last Updated on Thursday, 30 August 2012 19:06
- Published on Thursday, 30 August 2012 18:53
- Written by Farouk Hamzi
In the ranking of the cleanest hotels in the world by hotel.info, won Tokyo, followed by Warsaw and Prague ranked 13th where Bratislava was the 6th. Japanese capital with 8.91 points won before Warsaw, which reached 8.78 rating points. The third place went to Zagreb with 8.57 point and hotels in Prague got 8.31 points. Less satisfied guests with the cleanliness of hotels, were in Paris (7.54) and London (7.57), both popular tourist cities weren't in the top twenty.
20 best cities in the world in cleanliness of their hotels
Position - City - Country - Cleanless Rating (Best Score: 10.0)
First Tokyo Japan 8.91
Second Warsaw Poland 8.78
Third Zagreb Croatia 8.57
4th Sofia Bulgaria 8.55
5th Ljubljana Slovenia 8.52
6th Bratislava Slovakia 8.49
7th Helsinki Finland 8.44
8th Bangkok Thailand 8.41
9th Moscow Russia 8.41
10th Lisbon Portugal 8.37
11th Bucharest Romania 8.37
12th Riga Latvia 8.31
13th Prague Czech Republic 8.31
14th Berlin Germany 8.30
15th Bern Switzerland 8.29
16th Vienna Austria 8.27
17th Budapest Hungary 8.24
18th Madrid Spain 8.24
19th Tallinn Estonia 8.22
20th Dublin 8.20
Guests rated hotels on a point system (0-10 points), besides judging the cleanliness of the rooms, they also valuated the room quality, the value for money of services and friendliness of the staff. Unsatisfied customers complained for example about hair in the shower and dusty or dirty carpet. A good arguments to let down hotel rooms and find instead a luxury apartment in Prague
The hotel reservation server hotel.info includes over 210,000 hotels worldwide. The current ranking of cleanliness of hotels is based on the evaluation of more than five million customers.
Two Statues on Charles Bridge Removed to be Repaired, Will Never be Back
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- Created on Tuesday, 24 July 2012 13:49
- Last Updated on Wednesday, 25 July 2012 14:09
- Published on Tuesday, 24 July 2012 13:49
- Written by Farouk Hamzi
Two statues from Charles Bridge in the Mala Strana, had to be recently moved, due to their very poor conditions, to the restoration workshops. Instead of the statues, there are now special covers, bearing information about which statue is missing and why.
Empty spaces of the removed statues can't remain uncovered, so that the bridge would not leak and that's why were placed the covers. Statue's replica should be installed within two weeks, covers must be safe and strong so that they could not be easily damaged or even dropped into the river.
The bridge is missing the statutes of Vincent Ferrersk and St. Francis Borgias, both baroque sculptures will be in the renovation process for at least two years. Prague City Gallery expects to replace damaged and broken statues by chopped-quality parts.
Such work takes time and the originals will then likely end up in a museum or lapidary. The dilapidation of the statues on Charles Bridge is especially due to aging stone, the influence on the quality sculptures, the tourists and vandals, who climb on them quite often and also the climate changes, snow, wind and water.
Putting back the sculptures to the bridge may complicate the state of the pillars on which the statue stands, since the founding of Charles Bridge, the statues have never been touched by hands of restorers. The statues will therefore be subjected to careful examination.
The Other Prague, as it Used to Be
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- Created on Monday, 02 July 2012 11:42
- Last Updated on Monday, 02 July 2012 12:06
- Published on Monday, 02 July 2012 11:42
- Written by Farouk Hamzi
The first time I was in Prague, almost fifteen years ago, barely four years after the fall of communism and more than twenty years after the Soviet invasion of 1969. Stores and McDonald's were already there, as well as street vendors of police uniforms, but most of the streets were full of Czechs still surprised by this newfound freedom, neighborhood stores, grocery stores and cafes.
Today the picture has changed completely. We must move away tens of kilometers from the center to find some trace of everyday life, of authenticity. Within that radius, the shops of tourist trinkets and memorabilia have occupied the city, restaurants show photos of food (a sign of poor quality), the real Czechs were replaced by Balkans, Indians and Vietnamese and Eastern Europeans taking advantage of the naivety of tourists. Something similar has happened to the great taverns downtown, Czechs no longer there, their place was taken by international restaurant chains.
The explosion of tourism has open the appetite to everybody, and the Jewish community, as usually wasn't an exception, they are charging high fees for access to Jewish monuments and synagogues of the city, if a traveler wants to visit the old Jewish cemetery in Josefov and the Old-New Synagogue, he must pay two tickets costing about 40 euros, and that price does not include audio guides (another 40 euros), nor the right to take photographs (2 euros). The old town square had been taken over by Hyundai, which placed big screens to watch the Euro 2012 and huge platforms displaying their new models, cornering the monument of Jan Hus and preventing the whole architectural overview.
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Tourists in Prague will be Assisted by New Kiosks and Large Touchscreen Map
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- Created on Wednesday, 20 June 2012 17:54
- Last Updated on Wednesday, 20 June 2012 18:04
- Published on Wednesday, 20 June 2012 17:54
- Written by Farouk Hamzi
Prague Information Service has opened the most modern information center in the city. Tourists will be assisted in the city not only by a revolutionary touchscreen map, but also by kiosks in central Prague and at the airport.
An information center in Rytirska Street turned into a projected touchscreen map. Tourists can find on Google map their hotel or famous monuments and the map can be zoomed in and out, all through touch.
Another advantage for visitors to Prague are the information kiosks. The vast amount of daily information and news is updated continuously. There is also an events calendar and a directory of companies and institutions with a list of monuments. Other kiosks will be soon opened in other tourist attractive locations.
New, are also LED screens on which tourists will find invitations to cultural events.
The opening of the modernized information center in Rytirska Street coincides with the celebration of 45 years since the opening of the first-ever information center in Na Prikope street and twenty years since the first modern information center at the Old Town Square.
Invitation for Dancing in Prague from Today!
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- Created on Monday, 04 June 2012 13:02
- Last Updated on Monday, 04 June 2012 14:30
- Published on Monday, 04 June 2012 13:02
- Written by Farouk Hamzi
Presentations from eleven countries will be at the 24th Czech International Festival of Contemporary Dance and Movement Theatre in Prague 2012, whose main part will take place from the 4th till the 29th of June.
The festival offers exceptional, diverse and high quality dance experience with performance from France, Germany, Argentina, Sweden, Great Britain, Denmark, Holland, Spain, Japan and of course the Czech Republic.
The audience can assist to the the dance shows not only in Prague theaters Ponec, Archa , the New Stage of the National Theatre and Karlin Music Theatre, but also other theaters in other ten Czech cities like Brno, Czech Krumlov, Hradec Kralove, Chocni, Jihlava, Olomouc, Ostrava, Pardubice, Plzen and in Valasske Mezirici. The main shows in Prague will be the famous Swiss Alias that performs the hypnotic choreography Sideways Rain on the 26th and 27th of June at the Musical Theatre Karlin. In addition, audience can look forward to the Flemish Ultima Vez with the Czech premiere of the latest performance by Wim Vandekeybus booty Looting, who performs on the 28th and 29 June at the Archa Theatre.
The festival program will be complemented with workshops, films, lectures for students and public debate. Tickets cost from 120 to 1090 CZK and are on sale at the box office of Ponec theater. More information and complete program can be found on the official website of the festival: www.tanecpraha.cz