Travel Essentials

The Czech Republic is situated in the interior of Central Europe, in the area where the cultural influences of East and West were meeting from time immemorial. Due to the strategic position of the area, Czech territory was a junction of merchant paths and cultural influences, as well as a place of rival power interests in the past. The Czech present has thus been formed by a combination of purely domestic tradition and creative impulses from neighbouring as well as quite distant lands.

At the present time, the political, economic and cultural relations are focused on West European countries (especially Germany), and on historically close neighbours - Slovakia, Austria and Poland.