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EATING AND DRINKING
NaHradbách
NáměstíMíru9 315670000.
SetunderGothicvaultingonthemainsquare,
this popular place serves up meat-heavy mains for around 150Kč. There's a tree-shaded
garden.
Daily 11am-11pm.
Zámeckárestaurace
Svatováclavská19 315622121.
Samplethelocalwineatsourceand
tuck into hearty Bohemian food at the chateau's newly renovated restaurant. The views are
as good as the food, but it can get crowded.
Sun-Thurs 11am-6pm, Fri & Sat 11am-7pm.
Terezín
The old road from Prague to Berlin passes through the fortress town of
TEREZÍN
(Ther-
esienstadt), just over 60km northwest of the capital. Purpose-built in the 1780s by the Habs-
burgstodefendthenorthernborderagainstPrussia,itwascapableofaccommodating 14,500
soldiers and hundreds of prisoners. In 1941, the population was ejected and the whole town
turned into a
Jewish ghetto
, used as a transit camp for Jews whose final destination was
Auschwitz.
Hlavní pevnost (Main Fortress)
Althoughthe
Hlavnípevnost
wasputtothetestinbattle,Terezínremainsintactasagarrison
town. Today, it's an eerie, soulless place, built to a dour eighteenth-century grid plan, its
bare streets empty apart from the residual civilian population and visitors making their way
between the various museums and memorials. As you enter, the red-brick zigzag fortifica-
tions are still an awesome sight, though the huge moat has been given over to allotments.
