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Good, fresh beer and an outstanding roast duck with cabbage and dumplings are among the offerings here. The New Town brewery tends to pack guests in tightly, which can mean long waits between drinks. Also known as “U Surlýho Waiterů”.

The Ibis’s more graceful big sister. With underground parking, a small gym and swimming pool, piano bar and Continental restaurant, the Novotel offers a budget version of luxury. Children under 16 stay free.

Nestled below the Loreto (see The Loreto) and at the head of the Stag Moat is Nový Svět (New World), perhaps the best street in town for romantic strolling, weather permitting. The picturesque low houses were built in the 17th century to replace the medieval slums built for castle workers after the former burned down in 1541. They remain unchanged by time, still displaying their decorative house signs. Rudolph II’s choleric astronomer Tycho de Brahe) lived at No. 1 and apparently found the noise of nearby churchbells insufferable.

As charmless as the Congress Centre, this viaduct spans the Nusle Valley, connecting New Town to the Pankrác banking and commercial district.

One of the scores of marionettes on sale here would make a great souvenir, since Prague is an international centre for marionette theatre. The helpful staff can teach you basic techniques of string-pulling.

The sight of hundreds of graves, their leaning headstones crumbling on top of each other, is a moving and unforgettable experience – a testament to the treatment of the Jews in Prague, confined to their own ghetto even in death. Although there is no definite record of the number of burial sites here, to appreciate the depth of the graveyard, compare the gravestones’ height with that of the street level on U Starého hřbitova.

The jumble of tombstones in this tiny graveyard give some indication of the number of bodies buried here. Prague’s Jewish community lived and worshipped in the surrounding ghetto.