Prague Insolite et Secrete – Stejskal Martin (2020)

Far from the crowds and usual clichés, Prague holds well-hidden treasures that it reveals only to locals and travelers who know how to venture off the beaten path. An essential guide for those who thought they knew Prague well or for those who wish to discover the city's other face. Updated new edition. A completely ignored Art Nouveau masterpiece, the secrets of the alchemists of the castle, the message of the hidden palindrome of Charles Bridge, the mysteries of Jewish Kabbalah from the ghetto, the dried hand of a thief in a church, a statue with its intestines exposed, the location of Prague's Quasimodo, the largest aerodynamic tunnel in the Czech Republic, a piece of the Great Pyramid of Egypt in a dog cemetery, a clock that runs backward, a blue-painted house-museum for the needs of its nearly blind musician owner... A must-visit city for architecture enthusiasts, from Baroque to Art Nouveau, including Cubism, the European capital of alchemy and esotericism in the 17th century, Prague is one of the cities in the world with the greatest number of hidden wonders open to the public.