Prague
Prague is a city of very high standards, offering both historical and modern conference venues, hotels, restaurants and places of interest.
Prague is the capital of the Czech Republic situated on both banks of the Vltava river. It is a beautiful city with a rich history. Thanks to its location in the centre of Europe, Prague has always been an important crossroad of trade and culture. In the course of its thousand-year history, Prague has always been the political, cultural, and business centre of the country. Prague, often called Golden or Hundred-spired, belongs to the architecturally unique European towns, attractive for tourists from around the world. Visitors find themselves enjoying a living museum of European architecture from Romanesque time to the present.
Prague has 1,200,000 inhabitants and stretches over approximately 500 square kilometres. The dominant feature of the city is Prague Castle, which houses the gothic St. Vituss Cathedral. The castle had been the seat of Czech kings since 1087, until 1918 when it became the seat of presidents of the Czechoslovak Republic, and since 1993 it has been the seat of the president of the Czech Republic. Prague has one of the oldest universities in Europe; the Charles University which was founded in 1348.
Prague has a designated UNESCO World Cultural and Natural Heritage area of more than 8 square kilometres. More than 100 personalities famous world-wide have lived in Prague (e.g. King Charles IV, Rudolph II, J. A. Comenius, W. A. Mozart, Franz Kafka, A. Einstein, A. Pick, M. Curie-Sklodowski, etc.). Complete information about Prague you will find on www.cityofprague.cz.
Weather
You can expect warm spring weather in Prague in the half of May. Spring changes to summer, typically with a mixture of sunny and rainy days. Long-term average temperature is about 15ºC (59 F) at this time.
See the BBC weather forecast for current weather and short-time forecast.
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