• Art of Your Travel - Martina Gregorcova (Prague) - I am young enthusiastic private guide of Prague, managing an alternative incoming travel agency focused on Prague, Bratislava, Krakow and Tatra Mountains in Slovakia. I came to Prague in early summer 2001 and during several years of practice in local inbound and outbound Travel Companies I realized that many visitors prefer original tailor-made tours, holiday packages and a local friend.
• Ljuba Poleva (Prague) - I am a highly experienced and fully licensed private tour guide. I have been showing international visitors the wonders of Prague for more than fifteen years. I can offer group and private tours in English, Russian, Czech, German and Hebrew.
• Jaroslav Jay Pesta (Prague) - Best Prices & Quality Guaranteed.
I am a fully licenced and experienced tour guide. I offer custom, tailored walking/driving tours in Prague and the Czech Republic. My services are recommended by Fodor´s. I can also arrange theatre tickets, luxury accommodation and transportation - car, van, minibus, limousine - for reasonable prices. All my clients get saver tickets for cultural and dining venues.
• Ricardo Ribeiro (Prague) - I'm 40 something years old and it was from this mind that the whole idea came. I was born and grew up in Lisbon. After, I moved to Algarve, the southern end of my country. And there I lived until I totally fall in love with Prague. And here I am now, ready to share with you all I know about this land of fairy tales.
Blanka M. Lukes (Prague) - Blanka was born in Prague, however she has lived in the Los Angeles area for a better part of her life. Therefore, her American English is preferred by many tourists as she is easily understood and knows the American as well as Czech way of life.
Prague Castle & Lesser Town (Left riverbank) (Prague) - The Lesser Town was officially founded in 1257, which makes it one of the Prague´s oldest city quarters intertwined with a labyrinth of medieval streets. Its vicinity to the Prague castle predestined this area to become the home of merchants and craftsmen who served the royal court.
Jewish Prague (Prague) - By some ancient accounts, Prague’s Jewish community is as old as the city itself. The earliest written reference to Prague dates from the 10th century, and was recorded by the Jewish merchant, Ibrahim Ibn Jakub.
Discover Troja and Vysehrad in TRABANT 601! (Prague) - New and alternative tour of Prague! Available from the 1st of August 2008. Want to see further parts of Prague? Vinohrady and Zizkov TV tower - eccentric tower decorated by statues of Black Babies as sarcasm to communism, amazing modern church with features of cubist architecture built by Josip Plecnik.
Romantic Prague (Prague) - Just as diamonds are forever, a romantic journey through magic Prague is a memory lovers can treasure all their lives. Whether it is your honeymoon or your silver wedding anniversary, the enchantment of Prague, its otherworldly beauty, will leave you breathless.
Jewish Quarter Walking Tour (Prague) - Prague was once home to the largest community of Ashkenazi Jews anywhere in the world, and even though the community nowadays is much smaller, the legacy of their presence still survives. You will visit several famous synagogues: the 13th century Old-New Synagogue is the oldest synagogue north of the Alps; the Pinkas Synagogue, now a hallowed museum dedicated to the Czech victims of the Holocaust, which includes a heart-rendering exhibition of drawings by the children of the Terezín Ghetto; the Klausen Synagogue, which contains a permanent collection of lore surrounding the Maharal; the Maisel Synagogue with its extensive collection of Judaica; and the newly restored Spanish Synagogue, built in the Moorish style.
CAPITAL CITY OF Czech Republic: Prague LANGUAGE OF Czech Republic: Czech CURRENCY OF Czech Republic: Czech koruna COMMENTS ABOUT Czech Republic: The Czech Republic is a small landlocked country in Central Europe Cities : Prague (capital), Brno, Cesky Krumlov, Jesenik, Karlovy Vary, Karvina, Kutna Hora, Novosedly, Olomouc Best Places : Krkonose, Cesky Raj, Mutenice Wine Region, Karlstejn Castle, Electricity : 230V/50Hz (European plug) Calling Code : 420 Time Zone : UTC + 1
CLIMATE OF Czech Republic: temperate; cool summers; cold, cloudy, humid winters RELIGION OF Czech Republic: Roman Catholic 39.2%, Protestant 4.6%, Orthodox 3%, other 13.4%, atheist 39.8% POPULATION OF Czech Republic: 10,246,178 (July 2004 est.) Czech 81.2%, Moravian 13.2%, Slovak 3.1%, Polish 0.6%, German 0.5%, Silesian 0.4%, Roma 0.3%, Hungarian 0.2%, other 0.5% (1991)>> HISTORY OF Czech Republic: Following the First World War, the closely related Czechs and Slovaks of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire merged to form Czechoslovakia. During the interwar years, the new country's leaders were frequently preoccupied with meeting the demands of other ethnic minorities within the republic, most notably the Sudeten Germans and the Ruthenians (Ukrainians). After World War II, a truncated Czechoslovakia fell within the Soviet sphere of influence. In 1968, an invasion by Warsaw Pact troops ended the efforts of the country's leaders to liberalize Communist party rule and create "socialism with a human face." Anti-Soviet demonstrations the following year ushered in a period of harsh repression. With the collapse of Soviet authority in 1989, Czechoslovakia regained its freedom through a peaceful "Velvet Revolution." On 1 January 1993, the country underwent a "velvet divorce" into its two national components, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The Czech Republic joined NATO in 1999 and the European Union in 2004. ECONOMY OVERVIEW OF Czech Republic: One of the most stable and prosperous of the post-Communist states, the Czech Republic has been recovering from recession since mid-1999. Growth in 2000-03 was supported by exports to the EU, primarily to Germany, and a near doubling of foreign direct investment. Domestic demand is playing an ever more important role in underpinning growth as interest rates drop and the availability of credit cards and mortgages increases. High current account deficits - averaging around 5% of GDP in the last several years - could be a persistent problem. Inflation is under control. The EU put the Czech Republic just behind Poland and Hungary in preparations for accession, which will give further impetus and direction to structural reform. Moves to complete banking, telecommunications, and energy privatization will encourage additional foreign investment, while intensified restructuring among large enterprises and banks, and improvements in the financial sector, should strengthen output growth. Nonetheless, revival in the European economies remains essential to stepped-up growth.
Ljuba Poleva! Highly experienced and fully licensed private tour guide will show international visitors the wonders of Prague. Ljuba Poleva can offer group and private tours in English, Russian, Czech, German and Hebrew.