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Staré Město, Malá Strana, Vinohrady, Žižkov and the rest — which side of the river you are on changes the prices as much as the view.

Náměstí Míru in Prague's Vinohrady district
Photograph by Daniel Baránek, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

Which side of the river you are standing on changes the prices as much as the view.

Staré Město (the Old Town) and Malá Strana (the Lesser Town, below the castle) hold almost everything a first visit wants, and are priced for it. Vinohrady, east of the centre, is where the city becomes residential and the restaurants get cheaper and better. Žižkov, next to it, has the reputation for pubs and the least polished streets of the four.

The practical version: stay or eat one tram stop beyond where the crowd stops walking, and the same evening costs noticeably less. Prague's centre is small enough that "further out" still means ten minutes.

Articles here cover what each district is actually like rather than which is "best".

Old Town Square in daylight
Staré Město is the medieval core, and the busiest of them. Photograph by Szczecinolog, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
The Dancing House against a blue sky
Nové Město runs along the embankment south of the centre. Photograph by EliziR, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
The portal of the basilica at Vysehrad
Vyšehrad sits above the river, south of everything else. Photograph by Godot13, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

This section is being written. The guide above is the section for now. New articles are published across the site about twice a week rather than a section being filled in a day, so this page grows steadily — it is worth looking in again. In the meantime the sixteen sight pages and the plans by trip length are finished, and they are the best place to start.

Queued for this section

  • What is worth seeing in Vinohrady and Žižkov?

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