Katz

Hi All!!!
We are going to Prague next Friday for 4 days, and would like to know what to do in Prague on a Sunday. I'm guessing the shops are not open.

Also, anyone know of a fresh fruit and vege market in Prague to visit?

thanks...!!!

Cicerone

Surprisingly for Europe, many shops in Prague are open on Sunday, esp the tourist shops in the Charles Bridge area, as well as the stalls on the bridge itself. Most restaurants also seem to be open as well.

If you are Christian, you can also attend mass at one of the many cathedrals, esp the Church of Our Ladu of Victory on Karmelitska where the Infant of Prague is displayed. The gift shop and museum in the church is closed until 1 pm or so after the last mass. The English mass is at Noon (confirm this with your hotel or stop by the church if you are interested.)

Intrepid

I agree...every time we've been in Prague on a Sunday the stores around the Astrological Clock area and the restaurants were open for business as usual.

Christina

The main dept. stores may not be open, but plenty of the other gift, jewelry, etc shops are. They probably all are, they don't want to miss tourist business. Aside from that, anything else you might want to do as a tourist should be open, I can't thnk of anything that would be closed. The Jewish Quarter sites of interest are all open on Sunday, of course.

I did visit an open air market in the area just outside the City of Prague museum. You can't miss it if you go there and get off at the closest metro stop to the museum, Florenc. This museum is about the history of Prague and is great, although not that many tourists seem to go there -- it has a nice model city of what Prague used to look like, similar to the models in the City of London museum. So, you could go there on Sunday, I suppose. Most museums are closed Mondays, I believe. Here is their URL (I split it, but it's all joined):

http://www.muzeumprahy.cz/www_mmp/
txt/en_2muzeum_hlavniho_mesta_prahy.htm

I'm not sure how much food they had at that market, I was mainly looking at some clothing. There is a very well-known street market with food, as well as everything else, on Havelska Street, which is in-between Old Town square and Mustek metro stop. That would be the best bet for that, and I think it is open every day.

wemr

Get drunk under the St. Charles bridge!

Bailey

BRUNCH:
at the Bellevue...overlooking the Vltava river & Charles Bridge...beautiful view...relaxed surroundings!! Great food!
(Smetanovo Nabrezi 18,
22 22 04 65)

Harold1

If you are looking for the ambience of an open air market on Sunday, I don't know, but if you're only looking to buy fruit & veggies on Sunday, try the basement supermarket at Tescos, or better yet, the Carrefour supermarket at Nove Smichov. Trams 9,22 & 23 (and loads of others) go by Tescos. Tram 12 from Malostraska Namesti (the little square just west of the Charles Bridge) to Andel for Carrefour (look just to the left of the McDonald & KFC for the entrance to the mall). Tram 9 from Tescos also goes by Andel. Tescos is British and Carrefour is French and they more or less fit the national sterotypes for food, in my opinion.

Giovanna

You might enjoy a cruise on the Vltava. We took the JazzBoat and were very pleased with the trip. It gives you a different perspective on the buildings and particularly the bridges. Took about 45 minutes to an hour and wasn't very expensive. I'm sure the boats run on Sunday.