Guilty Pleasures

The Prague we read about here or here is magnificent, but the Prague we discover on our own, by foot is different. Different as in more tasteful and richer in terms of what our senses get from the direct interaction with the outdoor factors. I’ll leave you to what I consider my personal Prague.

Native House [...]

Prague is the oldest and most prominent Jewish centers in the Central Europe. Despite natural disasters (i.e. floods), pogroms and attempts at expuslion, the continuity of the local Jewish traditions, religious life and culture has never been totally disrupted throughout the history of the Prague Jewish community.
Distinguished rabbinic figures were active here in the early [...]

In the heart of the Czech Republic, at ~ 69 km away from Prague, there is the city of Kutna Hora with its famous Kostnice, set in Sedlec, one of the suburbs of the main city. I’ll skip the ossuary’s beginnings, you can read more about its history and how it all started here and [...]