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                <title>Café at Veletrzni Palace</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[A rather surprising new, albeit temporary, addition to a previously bland building, the café on the ground floor of Veletrzni Palace seems more of a science laboratory than a traditional cafe. Large bowl-shaped test tubes and gargantuan funnels and filter papers combine to offer up fresh filter and siphon coffee brews. (From 70 czk for a filter coffee). <br>An incredibly modern cafe frequented by tourists and Prague hipsters - the perfect place to rest gallery-wearied feet.<br>Offers tea, coffee and a small range of sweet snacks.<br>Open throughout summer 2012.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Photography at the Leica Gallery Prague</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[As well as larger museums and galleries, Prague is chock-a-block with smaller and more intimate spaces. The Leica Gallery Prague is one such gallery, run by a not-for-profit organization with the aim of providing high quality photography exhibitions and workshops, seminars and lectures. <br>The small but airy gallery space is well accompanied by a book shop and small café serving very good coffee as well as other soft drinks and wine.  <br>Its very full exhibition schedule and central location means this is a great place to see the work of some Czech and international photographers and enjoy a drink and browse some art books. <br>Entry is usually 50 CZK.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Veletrzni Palac Art Gallery</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[What better way to view an excellent collection of modern art than in an iconic modernist building? Prague’s impressive Veletrzni Palac was built as an exhibition venue in the 1920s to showcase Czech industrial achievements, and the building itself is a real work of art in its own right. Today it is the Czech National Gallery of 'Art of the 20th and 21st Centuries'. Stand in the huge and lofty central atrium and let your eyes wander upwards to the tiers of galleries above you – it is said that even Le Corbusier was taken aback by the sheer scale, proportion and simplicity of the structure. Move onwards and upwards to the fine permanent collections of European and Czech modern art. There are works by Picasso, Rodin, Rouseau, Van Goch and the like, plus pieces by less well-known Czech artists of that era. If you love art you will not be disappointed. Then, if time allows, there will always be the current temporary shows of work by today's artists. Refreshingly, the Veletrzni Palac is situated off Prague’s well-trodden tourist trail but only minutes from the centre via the city’s efficient public transport network.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Prague attractions</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Stromovka park is very worth visiting. It's popular but you can find quiet parts as it is huge, and it has a few lakes. The planetarium is here, near the entrance in the park, and is a good diversion. Outside the park and nearby is the Exhibition Grounds, in a few buildings, which I thoroughly recommend as there are very interesting exhibitions for the public on nearly all of the time, and a few really good permanent exhibitions (and a famous big fountain). Take a look at what is on. <br><br>The modern art palace of the National Gallery is not far from here and is a great gallery which many tourists miss because it is not near the Old Town, the Castle or Malostranska. It is usually quite quiet and I really recommend seeing it. It could take most of a whole day with a lunch break to visit all of the floors, so one and a half hours is the minimum time I recommend. You can have tea or coffee or a cold drink and snacks there.<br><br>The vast majority of people who visit Prague see only the three main areas with maybe also the Jewish Quarter and/or New Town and miss these attractions I mention. But especially if you have been to Prague before, make a point not to miss them. Don't forget the great value of Pension Vltava and recommend it to those who would like a very basic, clean and quiet place to stay with the added bonus of cheap drinks in your room at any hour.<br><br>For £7 or £8, have a sauna for a few hours in a basement private day spa near Holesovice station. Another similarly priced sauna in Holesovice is infinit (<a target="_new" href="http://infinit.cz">infinit.cz</a>) which also has a jacuzzi.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Krizikova fontana</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[It is a special show with "dancing water" or waterfalls and a small troupe of ballet dancers.The best is in summer in the late hours of the evening when the show is accompanied by lights too.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Museum of Decorative Arts</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Lovely old building with a fine collection of glass, silver, china, etc.]]></description>
                
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                <title>The world’s only cubist lamp-post</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[A little esoteric maybe, but it’s a very cute lamppost. It’s hidden away in its own little mini-square behind the lower southern side of Wenceslas Square. It’s also just in front of one of the entrances to the wonderfully named Church of Our Lady of the Snows. It’s one of those objects to photograph each other by and, in its own small way, seems to sum up the atmosphere of the city - and it is the only one in the world.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Modern Art Gallery</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Restoration of old gallery after floods. Sits on river bank and has strange sculptures in courtyard and modern arcitectural bits added to old building.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Obecni Dum (Municipal House)</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Fantastic art nouveau concert hall and suite of rooms. Guided tour 10am Sunday morning recommended, followed by coffee in the cafe on the main frontage.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Kampa museum</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Modern and contemporary Central European art from a private collection of Meda Mladkova, including a large number of Kupka's paintings, Gutfreund's sculptures and one huge wooden chair in the river outside the museum. Walk there down the Vltava riverbank, called Kampa, which is a picturesque part of Prague.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Mucha museum and the Slav Epic</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Alphonse Mucha (1860 - 1939) achieved international fame as a master of Art Nouveau, the decorative style of sensuous and opulent decoration that captured the fin-de-siecle world but was rapidly supplanted by the harsher vision of modernism. His poster art remains familiar over sixty years after his death, but the work he considered his masterpiece is sadly neglected. <br><br>The Mucha museum houses one hundred or so of his works.  The 'Slav Epic' series however is now on public display in the Czech village Moravský Krumlov - for this worthwhile (90 minute) trip you'll need either a map and a hire car or a helpful train enquiries desk.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Mozart's temporary villa</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[It doesn't nestle in quite as closely with many of Prague's other attractions, but it is well signposted once you get to the vicinity on foot or by tram. The villa is called Bertramka, and was a 17th century farmhouse, though it doesn't now look at all rural, and housed Mozart while he was working on Don Giovanni. He didn't stay for long, but the house has acquired one of his pianos and various other memorabilia.]]></description>
                
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