Prague is known as the Rome of the north, Kafka’s city, the city of a hundred spires. This illustrated volume, with excel­lent photography...

This little booklet is a collection of the must-see sights of Prague: the lofty Castle, the famous Charles Bridge, the Old Town Square with...

Prague has been one of the most significant cities in European Judaism for many centuries. Alongside notable buildings such as the Old-New...

“Franz Kafka was Prague and Prague was Franz Kafka”, Johannes Urzidil once wrote. And indeed, following the traces of Kafka’s life, your way...

It is the pinnacle of a lifelong passion – through over fifty years of meticulous detective work, Hartmut Binder has helped shape our image...

In this poetic diary, literary historian Peter Becher guides us through a Prague reality deeper than the touristy façade. This sensitive...

This fully revised edition of Kafka specialist Hartmut Binder’s stroll through Prague remains as useful as it is entertaining. It includes...

In December 1936, the Nazi state stripped Thomas Mann of his German citizenship. But this blow missed its mark – the Nobel laureate and most...

Prague is known as the Rome of the north, Kafka’s city, the city of a hundred spires. This illustrated volume, with excellent photography...

informative: This compact and detailed guide is packed with interesting and precise descriptions of all the important buildings and...

The new Vitalis Minibooks are an ideal small gift at an unbeatable price, a colourful compliment in miniature format, not only useful for...

Prague is known as the Rome of the North, Kafka’s city, and the City of a Hundred Spires. This illustrated guide features excellent...

Prague is the second city after Salzburg to be inseparably linked with the name of Mozart. Here in the Bohemian capital he enjoyed his...

“Kafka was Prague and Prague was Kafka. Never was Prague so perfect, so typical of herself as she was during Kafka’s lifetime, and never...

According to Prague-German author Paul Leppin (1878-1945), the streets of his home city “led one astray and ill fortune lurked on the...

Once a generation a psychic epidemic sweeps through the Jewish Town with lightning speed, gripping the souls of the living for some purpose...

This lavish edition sweeps the reader into the lost world of old imperial Prague: it includes over a thousand historic photographs and...

It would be hard to find another city in Europe so overflowing with stories, tales, and legends as the Old City of Prague. They tell of...

Jan Neruda first unveiled his Prague Tales from the Little Quarter in 1878. These stories usher the reader back to the first half of the...

This book is sheer past. Homeland and childhood – both of them long remote – form its background. – Today I would not have written it this...

The Golden Lane in Prague. In the past, its charming and colourful little houses were mainly inhabited by simple and poor people. For many...

Alphonse Mucha is world famous for his seductively beautiful panneaux and posters. As a decorative artist he shaped the appearance of a...

Exploring the coffee houses of Prague is a rewarding pastime. From the kavárna of old Prague to the jazz café of the music-loving Czechs n...

A Water Prince living in the Moldau, talking animals, flying demons, packs of thieves and kind-hearted folk, intermingled with frequent...

The stories by blind author Oskar Baum (1883-1942) collected here offer the reader a unique take on the early 20th century: Baum’s...

This latest work by Hartmut Binder represents nothing less than the first comprehensive biography of Gustav Meyrink to meet the needs of a...

Culture is big in Prague. There are huge cultural events, and smaller, more intimate occasions. Modern jazz is generally something of a...

Stroke by stroke, character by character, Paul Leppin’s prose sketches capture the image of Prague . Paul Leppin chats pensively about the...

Oskar Wiener’s (b. 1873 in Prague, †1944 in Theresienstadt) Old-Prague Peep Show (1912) displayed images and figures of the city stemming...

One of the most beautiful German-language Prague novels, Innocens by Ferdinand von Saar (1833–1906) is set on the Vyšehrad, a fortress...

Sacrifice to the Lares (1895), the collection of poems written by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) when he was only twenty years of age, is...

“I believe this book contains a few kernels which may grow into trees,” Rainer Maria Rilke revealed in a letter to a friend in 1900, shortly...

At the beginning of 1903, a pupil at the military academy in Wiener-Neustadt, Franz Xaver Kappus, sends a few poems to Rainer Maria Rilke,...

Strangely, one aspect of bygone Prague life seems to have escaped researchers in their many accounts: Prague was not only a university city...

“The demons of the past are stirring in the unworldly old aristocrats of Prague Castle, and the old men are shocked by their own misspent,...

Many young visitors to Kafka’s little cottage at Prague Castle exclaim something along the lines of “They inflicted Kafka on us at school!”....

Vitalis mini calendars make a perfect souvenir or a colourful gift at a great price. They feature major paintings, ideal for art lovers;...

Vitalis mini calendars make a perfect souvenir or a colourful gift at a great price. They feature major paintings, ideal for art lovers;...

Vitalis mini calendars make a perfect souvenir or a colourful gift at a great price. They feature major paintings, ideal for art lovers;...

Vitalis mini calendars make a perfect souvenir or a colourful gift at a great price. They feature major paintings, ideal for art lovers;...

View of Prague from by Philipp Franz Hogenberg, 1606.

A museum guide to the Goldmakers’ Lane featuring rare images, background information and a wealth of details.

According to legend, the...