Visit the Astronomical Clock

Prague’s 14th-century stone bridge lined with 30 baroque saints — walk it at dawn before the crowds and buskers arrive.

The largest ancient castle complex in the world, with St Vitus Cathedral, the Golden Lane cottages and the hourly guard change.

Paris’s 850-year-old Gothic cathedral, reopened after the 2019 fire with its spire and oak roof rebuilt by hand.

Prague under mechanical apartheid; the best level design in the series.

Gregor Samsa wakes as an insect and his family adjusts; Kafka in sixty pages.

Josef K. is arrested for something nobody will name; the word Kafkaesque comes from here.

An idiot, or a genius, in the Austro-Hungarian army; the funniest book about a war.

Tomas, Tereza and Sabina in Prague 1968; Kundera's novel of philosophy and sex.