Prague: 18 places worth a day trip

Prague's largest brewery, brewing in the Smíchov district since 1869. The visitor centre walks through the history of brewing and ends with a tasting.

A brewpub in continuous operation since at least 1499 that serves just one beer: a 13° dark lager. Its halls and garden seat around 1,200 guests.

A small brewery inside the Strahov Monastery above Prague Castle, revived in 2000 on the site of a monastic brewery recorded in 1628. Its St. Norbert beers are brewed on the spot.

Brewing at Břevnov, the oldest monastery for men in Bohemia, is traced to its founding in 993. The modern brewery reopened in 2011 and brews under the Benedict label.

A Prague brewery on Korunní street revived in 2014 in a building that brewed beer from 1893. Its unfiltered lagers are poured in the big taproom next to the brewhouse.

One of Prague's first modern brewpubs, open since 1998 and known for experimental beers flavoured with banana, coffee, cherry or nettle.

A neighbourhood microbrewery in Prague's Hostivař district, brewing unpasteurised lagers and ales that it serves in its own pubs across the city.

Beer brewing in Uhříněves was first recorded in 1594; the brewery, on its present site since 1705, was closed under communism in 1949 and revived by the former owners' descendants in 2015. Its Alois lagers honour Alois Tichý, who ran it in its 19th-century heyday.

A historic vineyard inside Prague Botanical Garden, with a wine bar and the Baroque chapel of St. Clare looking over the city.

A restored 19th-century vineyard in Havlíčkovy sady, in a Prague district whose name, Vinohrady, means 'vineyards'. The pavilion pours local wine.

A small vineyard on the slope below Prague Castle, linked by tradition to prince Wenceslas and replanted in the 1990s.

A terraced vineyard estate in Prague's Troja with a winery and restaurant, one of the largest inside the city.

Seat of Czech rulers for over a thousand years and today of the president, often cited as the largest ancient castle complex in the world. St. Vitus Cathedral guards the Crown Jewels.

Begun in 1357 under Charles IV, this Gothic bridge links the Old Town and Malá Strana. Thirty Baroque statues line its parapets.

The legendary seat of the first Czech princes on a rock above the Vltava. Its cemetery holds Dvořák, Smetana and Mucha.

A small wax-coated statue of the Infant Jesus, brought from Spain and given to the Carmelites in 1628, draws pilgrims from all over the world to the Church of Our Lady Victorious in Malá Strana. Its robes are changed through the church year from a wardrobe of more than a hundred.

Czechia's largest technical museum, on Letná: a great transport hall of locomotives, cars and motorbikes with aircraft hanging overhead, plus astronomy, photography, printing and a mine in the basement.

One of Europe's largest aviation museums, on a working military airfield on the edge of Prague: aircraft from World War I biplanes to Cold War jets, in hangars and out on the grass. Entry is free.