Secret Prague (2026)

This Prague guide leads you away from the beaten track to unusual and unfamiliar places, with local expert Martin Stejskal revealing the city’s well-hidden treasures for residents, curious visitors and armchair travellers alike. It presents a completely overlooked Art Nouveau masterpiece, the secrets of the castle alchemists, a message hidden in a palindrome on Charles Bridge, Kabbalistic mysteries of the Jewish ghetto, a thief’s shrivelled forearm hanging in a church, a statue revealing its intestines, the largest wind tunnel in the Czech Republic, a fragment of the Great Pyramid of Cheops in a pet cemetery, a clock that runs backwards, and a house and museum painted blue for its partially blind musician owner. Unmissable for lovers of architecture, from Baroque to Art Nouveau via Cubism, and for anyone interested in Prague’s role as a European capital of alchemy and esotericism in the 17th century, the guide reveals a wealth of little-known marvels. It is intended for those who thought they knew Prague well and for anyone wishing to discover the hidden face of the city.