Random photo: Prague's Old Town Square
By some miracle of history, Prague's medieval core has survived largely intact. Invasions, foreign dominations, wars, and half a century under Communist rule all passed with the city's ancient fabric more or less undisturbed. The Old City district (Stare Mesto) sits on the east bank of the Vltava River and begins more or less at the end of the famous Charles Bridge (Karluv Most). The heart of the Old City is the Old Town Square, shown here.
In the first photo, the white Baroque church on the left is St. Nicholas Church. In the second photo, the large church on the left is the Church of Our Lady in front of Týn (both of which are Roman Catholic). A church has stood on that spot since at least the 11th century; the present Late Gothic building was begun in the 14th. The entrance is through a narrow alley between the houses which sit on the square directly in front of it.
Prague is a lively, vibrant city, and the Old Town Square is the heart of it. Restaurants and pubs line the perimeter of the square; just about any imaginable cuisine can be had in that city, and many of them can be found on this square. Several of the buildings on the square are small boutique hotels, and quite a few are private residences.
A friend and I visited Prague in September 2005. We walked endlessly along Prague's twisty ancient streets, and around every corner we saw something new and incredible. A block or so from the Old Town Square, we stumbled across an Icelandic restaurant called Reykjavik.
Yes, there's an Icelandic restaurant in the middle of Bohemia.
The food was so good, we ate dinner there twice. Reykjavik's emphasis of course is seafood; how they managed to get fresh seafood into the land-locked Czech Republic is a bit of a mystery, but everything was so fresh, I could've sworn we were dining in some Nordic fishing village.
Larger versions of the photos are here and here, and lots more pictures of the Old City are here.