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Prague
(Praha in Czech) is the capital and largest
city of the Czech Republic. Situated on the
Vltava river, it is home to approximately
1.2 million inhabitants. (It can be derived
from jobs statistics, however, that
additional 300,000 work there without having
registered as residents.) Nicknames for
Prague have included "city of a hundred
spires", "the golden city", "the Paris of
the Twenties in the Nineties", the "mother
of all cities", and "the heart of Europe".
Since 1992, the historic centre of Prague
has been included in the UNESCO list of
world heritage sites. Prague is a popular
tourist destination. There are lots of old
buildings, many with beautiful murals on
them. It contains one of the world's most
pristine and varied collections of
architecture, from Art Nouveau to Baroque,
Cubist, Gothic, Neo-Classical and
ultra-modern.
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