Late November last year I took a trip to Prague, Budapest, Vienna and Cracow.  My photography skills are somewhat lacking, but here is Prague, capital of the Czech Republic. It is a fairly large city, split by the river and full of renaissance and baroque buildings.  Tower, turrets and domes puncture the skyline, but the city also has plenty of modern interesting buildings as well. 

We stayed in Hradcany, the castle district, high above the city.  The views were spectacular!  The city is very manageable, with metro and streetcar lines in the right places.  Without further ado,

 

 

Awesome!  I especially love the Art Nouveau stuff in the second photo.

I've heard that Prague is a treasure, and your photos bear that out.

Amazing architecture!

gorgeous!  You folks really rack up the frequent flyer miles!

I used up 80,000 to upgrade between San Francisco and Prague. We flew between all the cities, because unlike Western and Southern Europe, in the former Warsaw block countries, train service is not only spotty but sometimes downright scary.  Friends told me horror stories of their experiences in the Czech Republic and Hungary.  Plus, I don't speak Czech, Polish or Hungarian.  They all just look like a jumble of letters without any vowels to me!

I did much the same itinerary as you, but while I was back in college in 1991 (yeah I'm old) - Eastern Europe was incredibly cheap at the time, and we were able to see some great cultural cities - Vienna, Budapest, Prague, Krakow, Warsaw, and Berlin.  There were few American tourists when we traveled there, and almost nobody spoke English, French, or Spanish (which was our entire repertoire of languages).  There was a lot of poverty evident then.  I remember elderly ladies selling flowers and knit caps in the train stations of Budapest.  Poland had people selling pirate CD's and VHS movies in many of the public places.  We usually stayed in youth hostels, but in Budapest stayed in a private house for less than $10 per person.  We traveled by train which was an educational experience - learned that toilet paper was not provided in second class, and the toilets emptied through a hole in the floor to the tracks (made for an interestingly breezy time on the pot) - also learned the hard way that the Polish word for "slow train" (makes all stops) is osobowy, as opposed to pospieszny (fast train) or expresowy (intercity).  Border crossings at the time were a bit scary, as armed border police searched every bag on the train on the way into Hungary for two hours, and none of us knew a word of Hungarian besides thank you (koszonom).

 

One of these years I'm going to have to digitize and upload some of the photos.

I visited Prague back in '98 while traveling Europe after a semester studying in Florence.  Definitely an amazing city architecturally.  It was interesting to note some of the things that were still stuck in the time of the Communist regimes....for instance, most of the cars will still from the 50's and 60's.  Anyway the city was cheap from i remember also.  It also seemed that the subways were incredibly deep into the ground as the escalators went forever before reaching the tracks.

 

Also watch the movie XXX with Vin Diesel....you can catch quite a glimpse of the city.

 

I too will have to digitize my photos to share sometime.