Please stay on the red carpet and, above all, don’t ask any questions – that will probably stick in my head forever. Our guide said this exactly 100 times during the tour of the beautiful baroque Manětín Castle.
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Rabštejn nad Střelou – a visit to the smallest town in Central Europe
We arrive by car in Rabštejn nad Střelou and have already driven past again. The small town claims to be the smallest town in Central Europe… it almost seems like it’s true.
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Plasy Brewery – Beer from the Pilsen region
A microbrewery reopened in 2015 is located on the grounds of the monastery in Plasy. The Plasy brewery continues the brewing tradition of the monastery on site. I felt very comfortable there, and not just from a culinary point of view.
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Raven Brewery – the somewhat different beer from Pilsen
Everyone knows the beers that come from the Pilsner Urquell brewery and many visitors to Pilsen come to the city for this very reason. But there are other beers from Pilsen that should not go unnoticed. The Raven brewery produces flavourful APA, IPA and lager beers, but no pilsner!
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Mariánská Týnice impressive architecture
Imagine a place that has been around for centuries and has a mixture of two totally different architectural styles. This is Mariánská Týnice in the Czech Republic!
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Plasy Monastery – Visit to the Cistercian Monastery
Around Pilsen there are numerous former monasteries, which today invite you to visit them. Each monastery has something special and many facilities are architecturally unique. Plasy Monastery is one of the largest monasteries in the region.
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