Geography
Six quarters, each with its own slope, its own hour of noise and its own distance to the water. The entries are grouped, not ranked.
Praha 1
Below the castle, above the bridge: baroque fronts, cobbles, and the heaviest tourist flow in the city between ten and eight.
Hotel U Tří pštrosů
A Renaissance sign over a doorway below the castle steps: three ostriches, painted, still pointing the way in.
Malá Strana · Praha 1
€216
4.88 / 5 · 5,043 records
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Praha 1
The Square and its lanes. Everything is close and everything is loud; the archive records both.
Hotel U Prince
Twenty-nine rooms over the Old Town Square, an attic terrace directly under the clock.
Staré Město · Praha 1
€241
4.97 / 5 · 9,302 records
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Praha 1
The Jewish Quarter, rebuilt in the 1890s around its synagogues: wide boulevards and one deliberate modern house.
Hotel Josef
Eva Jiřičná's glass and steel answer to the Jewish Quarter, opened in 2002.
Josefov · Praha 1
€252
4.89 / 5 · 4,150 records
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Praha 1
The castle hill. Steep, walled and empty after six; the coaches arrive at ten.
Hotel Savoy
An 1890s house at the castle gate, marble and quiet since the rebuild in 2001.
Hradčany · Praha 1
€381
4.95 / 5 · 1,689 records
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Praha 2
The nineteenth-century grid: palaces, trams, the river bank. Loud at the junction, quiet in the courtyards.
Dancing House Hotel
Gehry and Milunić's tilted glass, 1996, the only dancing building in the city.
Nové Město · Praha 2
€303
4.90 / 5 · 2,277 records
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Praha 3
A hill of bars and tenements, one tower, and a tram every few minutes. The cheapest entry in the book.
Hotel Theatrino
Theatrino's 1913 theatre on Bořivojova, Žižkov's own stage of a house.
Žižkov · Praha 3
€178
4.86 / 5 · 3,301 records
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