Perfect for the gray season: city trips! My personal favorite destination for the beginning of March is the Czech capital Prague.
Photo: Thomas Krause / Janin Katharina Hasteden
On the banks of the Vltava, the last remains of snow shimmer and numerous museums invite to discover the Kafka town.
The time from January to April is a big challenge for me every year, not to succumb to the deepest winter blues. To make it easier to bridge the weeks, which lasted months, until spring, I summarily booked a flight this year and surprised my friend, who is in the middle of the "gray-time" birthday, with an extended weekend in Prague.
Hardly that we are in the air with the Cityhopper, already comes the announcement of the pilot, we would land the same. Perfect. Our first day leads us, of course, to the legendary Charles Bridge (Czech: Karlův most), which is one of the oldest stone bridges in Europe and connects the old town with the Lesser Town. From here you have not only the Vltava under your feet, but also an unobstructed view of the 13 large "Prague bridges" (out of the total of 180 bridges). Beautiful.
Next, there is another architectural highlight, namely the "Dancing House" (Czech: Tančící dům), which - as the name implies - is reminiscent of a dancing woman and of the Prague residents, inspired by the great dancers Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, also known as "Ginger and Fred". Built in 1996, the "Dancing House" is one of the city's newest landmarks.
The "Golden City" impresses not only with artistic buildings from the present, but also through an almost infinite variety of buildings from the Gothic and Baroque periods. On the sightseeing to do list of every visitor to Prague should definitely also the Prague Castle, the Old Town Hall with the astronomical clock, the St. Vitus Cathedral, the Old Jewish Cemetery in the old Jewish quarter Josefov and the Golden Lane, the well the most famous street in Prague, where the writer Franz Kafka once lived.
If the weather cooperates (which fortunately is usually the case in Prague), you should definitely visit the Old Town Square in Prague: the facades of the houses built in the Romanesque and Gothic eras are beautiful and so is the multitude of small ones Restaurants and cafés with Czech specialties, such as the typical dumpling dishes (knedlíky), are worth a visit. Because: If you discover a lot, you must also strengthen yourself.
It is a pity, however, that the weekend has passed much too fast. Getting to know the city of Prague in just three days is virtually impossible. Too many beautiful buildings, churches, squares and streets are waiting to be discovered by us. Specifically, that means: we will be back. And then my friend and I now start solidarity with a typical beer from Prague: Staropramen. Na zdraví!
