Prague in 3 days

One of the largest castle complexes in the world, with St Vitus Cathedral, its Mucha window, and Golden Lane, where Kafka wrote at number 22.

The Lesser Town below the castle: baroque lanes, pastel palaces, terraced gardens, St Nicholas Church, the John Lennon Wall and Černý's crawling babies on Kampa.

A Gothic bridge begun in 1357, lined with 30 baroque statues; the bronze plaque of St John of Nepomuk is polished by visitors' hands.

The baroque hall of the former Jesuit college, with trompe-l'œil frescoes, old globes and some 20,000 leather-bound volumes, little changed since 1722.

Fitted to the Old Town Hall tower in 1410 and still working; on the hour, Death rings his bell and the twelve apostles parade past.

An orchard-covered hill above Malá Strana, in blossom in April, topped by a 63.5-metre copy of the Eiffel Tower with 299 steps.

A clifftop fortress above the Vltava, away from the crowds, with a Romanesque rotunda, a basilica and the cemetery where Dvořák and Mucha lie.

Prague's tallest structure at 216 metres, finished in 1992, with a viewing cabin at 93 metres and Černý's giant babies climbing its pillars.