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Posted By Dankuna 8 months, 2 weeks ago in FamilyPrague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Its official name is Hlavní m?sto Praha, meaning Prague, the Capital City. Situated on the River Vltava in central Bohemia, Prague has been the political, cultural, and economic centre of the Czech state for more than 1100 years. The city proper is home to more than 1.2 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 1.9 million. Since 1992, the extensive historic centre of Prague has been included in the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites. Nicknames for Prague have included “ the mother of cities” (Praga mater urbium, or “ Praha matka m?st” in Czech)” , “ city of a hundred spires” and “ the golden city” . Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, Prague has become one of Europe’ s (and the world’ s) most popular tourist destinations. It is the sixth most-visited European city after London, Paris, Rome, Madrid and Berlin. Prague suffered considerably less damage during World War II than some other major cities in the region, allowing most of its historic architecture to stay true to form. It contains one of the world’ s most pristine and varied collections of architecture, from Art Nouveau to Baroque, Renaissance, Cubist, Gothic, Neo-Classical and ultra-modern.
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