Things to Do in Czech Cities Beyond Prague

Brno rewards a full day: a compact old town, Villa Tugendhat by timed tour, the Žlutý kopec reservoirs, and a food and beer scene the city promotes on its own terms. Build the day by area and book the villa first.

Brno Exhibition Centre, the Výstaviště, is a 1928 fairground whose functionalist halls host around 50 fairs and exhibitions a year. Here is how the grounds are laid out, which pavilions to look for, which fairs open to general visitors, and how to reach Výstaviště 1 from the city center.

Brno's functionalist architecture is anchored by Villa Tugendhat, the Mies van der Rohe house built in 1929–1930 and inscribed by UNESCO in 2001. This guide compares its three guided tour circuits, explains the advance-ticket rule, covers the free garden and technical-floor exhibitions, and maps Villa Stiassni and the interwar city around them.

Brno's history is easiest to read on foot: a cathedral on Petrov hill, a fortress above the center and squares that carry centuries of Moravian rivalry and industry. Here is the timeline, tied to the buildings and the exhibitions where you can actually see it.

Brno's old town is a compact knot of squares, churches, and burgher houses that you can cross on foot in an afternoon. This guide gives a walking order from Freedom Square to Petrov, the Old Town Hall, and the Capuchin Monastery, with Špilberk saved for a separate climb.

Český Krumlov folds into half a day of castle courtyards, the Cloak Bridge, old town lanes and St. Vitus Church, with paid castle interiors adding about two hours. Here is how each piece fits, what the 2026 tour tickets cost, and when to walk the lanes before the buses arrive.

The Baroque Theatre at Český Krumlov Castle preserves an original baroque stage, orchestra pit and machinery, and you see it only on a timed tour with a 20-person cap. Here is how the slots, prices and season shape a visit alongside the castle's other circuits.

Český Krumlov's history is written into its layout: a castle and the Latran quarter on one ridge, a square on the far bank, Renaissance facades along Horní Street, and a restoration after 1990 that brought the town back. Here is how each era maps onto streets you can walk.

Český Krumlov's old town is a small, car-free UNESCO historic center wrapped around a bend of the Vltava. Walk it in a loop from náměstí Svornosti through Latrán and up to the castle, and give it a half day, with early morning or evening for the quietest streets.

The best views in Český Krumlov come from the castle grounds, where courtyards open onto bridges, terraces and gardens above the Vltava bend. The old town streets and the river give you the reverse shot, looking up at the castle rock. Light and crowds decide which one you remember.

Karlovy Vary rewards a slow walk: taste the mineral springs along the colonnades, ride the Diana funicular, tour Moser glassworks, visit the Becherovka center and the thermal spring underground, then soak in a public spa. This guide arranges the town along the Teplá river and adds ticket prices in CZK where the official tourist site publishes them.

Karlovy Vary looks like an 18th- and 19th-century spa town because fires and floods erased most of its medieval fabric. This timeline ties each documented date to a street, a lost building or a landmark you can still find on a walk through town.

Karlovy Vary's old town is a compact river valley of colonnades, mineral springs and elegant promenades. Here is what each colonnade is for, which churches and streets anchor the walk, and how to order a half day on foot from Prague.

Olomouc rewards a full day, not a quick photo stop: a UNESCO column on Horní náměstí, a postwar astronomical clock, baroque fountains, a cathedral and two art museums within a short walk of each other.

Litovel is a small Haná town in the Morava lowlands north of Olomouc, and its working brewery is the main reason to stop. The brewery traces its craft back more than 725 years and sells a lineup running from a 10° pale lager to dark and flavored beers.

Olomouc's seven baroque fountains—Arion, Caesar, Hercules, Jupiter, Mercury, Neptune and the Tritons—stand in the open and cluster inside the old town, so a single unhurried walk connects them with the square and its UNESCO column. This guide names each one, sets out how they relate to the square and the church quarter, and gives a walking order you can fold around paid interior tours.

Olomouc keeps its history on the street: a UNESCO column built over four decades, a town hall clock with a socialist-realist face, six Baroque fountains, and the churches of the old town. Each period left something you can stand in front of.

Přerov earns a short, focused stop: a Renaissance-reworked chateau holding the Comenius Museum, a compact heritage zone of 15th- and 16th-century houses and medieval walls, and an outdoor memorial built over the excavated Unity of the Brethren house. The center, the river embankment and Park Michalov string together on foot.

Plzeň rewards a full day: a pastel-painted square, the tallest church tower in the Czech Republic, one of Europe's largest synagogues, a hard-hat walk under the streets and the brewery that invented pilsner lager.

Domažlice is a compact town in the Plzeň Region, close to the Bavarian border, with a historic center protected as an urban monument reservation. Its arcaded square is the anchor of a short visit, while the hills and border monuments around town reward anyone with a car and a spare half-day.

Horšovský Týn is a state castle and chateau west of Plzeň where a 13th-century Gothic core sits under a monumental Renaissance rebuild. You visit through named guided circuits, the grounds cover roughly 40 hectares, and two churches fall under the same administration.

Klatovy is a compact Plzeň-region town where a leaning Black Tower, a Jesuit church with baroque catacombs, and a historic pharmacy sit within a short walk of each other. It rewards a half day, especially as a stop between Plzeň and Šumava.

Nepomuk is the small south Bohemian town that gave St John of Nepomuk his name, not the other way around. It separates the documented 1393 martyrdom from the baroque legend, and points you to the five-star motif that follows the saint from Charles Bridge in Prague to the UNESCO church at Zelená Hora.

Plasy Monastery is a former Cistercian abbey north of Plzeň, rebuilt in Baroque style by Mathey, Santini and Dientzenhofer, and famous for oak foundations preserved under water. The visit runs on guided tours through selected rooms, the church and the abbey buildings.

Sušice works best as a short stop on the way into Šumava rather than a destination of its own. The town and the Sušicko destination office point visitors to a compact center, a run of monuments and museums, and a tourist information service that handles the practical details.