A museum guide to the Goldmakers’ Lane featuring rare images, background information and a wealth of details.

According to legend, the...

The Golden Lane in Prague. In the past, its charming and colourful little houses were mainly inhabited by simple and poor people. For many...

Beethoven needs no introduction. His life and work have formed the basis of hundreds if not thousands of pages in countless erudite books,...

Prague is known as the Rome of the North, Kafka’s city, and the City of a Hundred Spires. This illustrated guide features excellent...

A miniature book on Franz Kafka, perfect to flick through, pick apart, put up on your wall and put down. As small as a large stamp and as...

The new Vitalis Minibooks are an ideal small gift at an unbeatable price, a colourful compliment in miniature format, not only useful for...

The new Vitalis Minibooks are an ideal small gift at an unbeatable price, a colourful compliment in miniature format, not only useful for...

The new Vitalis Minibooks are an ideal small gift at an unbeatable price, a colourful compliment in miniature format, not only useful for...

The perfect companion for all occasions, journeys and adventures great and small. This notebook is ideal for jotting down your thoughts,...

This little booklet is a collection of the must-see sights of Prague: the lofty Castle, the famous Charles Bridge, the Old Town Square with...

Prague is known as the Rome of the north, Kafka’s city, the city of a hundred spires. This illustrated volume, with excel­lent photography...

Prague is known as the Rome of the north, Kafka’s city, the city of a hundred spires. This illustrated volume, with excellent photography...

Maria Theresa of Austria – a Baroque concerto grosso, a cantata of beauty, magnificence and imperial splendour. Juliana Weitlaner has been...

Alphonse Mucha is world famous for his seductively beautiful panneaux and posters. As a decorative artist he shaped the appearance of a...

“Franz Kafka was Prague and Prague was Franz Kafka”, Johannes Urzidil once wrote. And indeed, following the traces of Kafka’s life, your way...

Late evening on St Nicholas Street, Prague. The family flat has finally fallen silent and Franz’s parents and sisters have gone to bed. Only...

Franz Kafka’s Letter to Father can be seen as a key to understanding the Prague author’s life and work. The monologue is both accusatory and...

Doctor, let me die...

Golden Lane in the wartime winter of 1916/17: Kafka retreats to the quiet of the little house at number 22 for a few...

“The words that can be said about this book are merely tentative asides. A person must glean for himself line by line how the ominous...

“The story that I’m writing, which, I must say, is laid out into the endless … is called The Missing One (Der Verschollene) and takes place...

“I will always be considerably more grateful to you for sending back my manuscripts than for their publication,” wrote Kafka coyly to the...

“Somebody must have defamed Josef K., for without having done anything wrong, he was arrested one morning. His landlady’s cook, who always...

When we speak of the work of Franz Kafka (1883-1924), we instinctively think of his literary work. It is less well known that Kafka also...

This book is sheer past. Homeland and childhood – both of them long remote – form its background. – Today I would not have written it this...

informative: This compact and detailed guide is packed with interesting and precise descriptions of all the important buildings and...

Are halušky and škubánky a mys­tery to you? Have you never heard of lívance and vdolky? Then you’re on the right track with this culinary...

Just as in the days of the Emperor, people flock to the Czech Republic today to savour tasty local specialities, ranging from the fine...

Prague has been one of the most significant cities in European Judaism for many centuries. Alongside notable buildings such as the Old-New...

Once a generation a psychic epidemic sweeps through the Jewish Town with lightning speed, gripping the souls of the living for some purpose...

Jan Neruda first unveiled his Prague Tales from the Little Quarter in 1878. These stories usher the reader back to the first half of the...

The Grandmother is an entirely unsentimental portrayal by Vienna-born Czech author Božena Němcová (1820–1862) of both the rural customs and...

Austria in 1854: The young Bavarian Duchess Elisabeth takes the hand of the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph in marriage in the festively...

Franz Joseph defined his era and exemplified the old Austria. Installed on the throne as a young prince in 1848, he governed the Imperial...

On a cold January night in 1756, a child is born in Salzburg’s Getreidegasse: his name is to become known across the world: Wolfgang Amadeus...

He is the Jugendstil master, the founder of the Vienna Secession; his paintings – which sell for record prices – and his lifestyle are the...

Egon Schiele had many faces: the exceptionally talented artistic genius; the sensitive creator of peaceful landscapes and the shameless...

Just like other European nations, the Czechs have a treasure trove of fairytales that has been lovingly handed down over the centuries. Some...

A Water Prince living in the Moldau, talking animals, flying demons, packs of thieves and kind-hearted folk, intermingled with frequent...

Once upon a time, every river bend, every mountain peak and every church tower had its own story to tell; adventurers and pitch-burners...

‘Stick on!’ cries the dashing young man who wants to court the Princess, and soon everyone is stuck to his little magic wagon: the sooty...

Baden – a Biedermeier spa town, nestling amid vine-covered hillsides – is home to the Old Town’s charming alleyways, immaculate baths and...

An introduction to Vienna: an encounter with the medieval city, the residence of the Habsburg dynasty and one of Europe’s most important...

The most well-known Austrian animal story is familiar to generations of readers and has become a true classic, with many film and television...

From Tafelspitz to Kaiserschmarren – the Imperial Court Kitchen was more than just a collection of fine delicacies, prepared by the best...

Exploring the coffee houses of Prague is a rewarding pastime. From the kavárna of old Prague to the jazz café of the music-loving Czechs n...

Baden – a Biedermeier spa town, nestling amid vine-covered hillsides – is home to the Old Town’s charming alleyways, immaculate baths and...

At the beginning of 1903, a pupil at the military academy in Wiener-Neustadt, Franz Xaver Kappus, sends a few poems to Rainer Maria Rilke,...

In one of the most fascinating technological success stories in the world, Škoda combines the traditions of a hundred-year-old motoring...

A hundred years ago, as the First World War came to an end after four brutal years, a lethal pandemic was gaining ground: the Spanish...