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Travel Weekly contributor Nadine Godwin recently participated in a press tour sponsored by the European Quartet joint marketing group comprising the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. The buildings in Prague's Old Town Square are irresistible to tourists carrying cameras, and the Storch House, seen here, illustrates the point. That is King Wenceslas on horseback riding across the front of the house.

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Travel Weekly contributor Nadine Godwin recently participated in a press tour sponsored by the European Quartet joint marketing group comprising the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. The buildings in Prague's Old Town Square are irresistible to tourists carrying cameras, and the Storch House, seen here, illustrates the point. That is King Wenceslas on horseback riding across the front of the house.

Travel Weekly contributor Nadine Godwin recently participated in a press tour sponsored by the European Quartet joint marketing group comprising the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. The buildings in Prague's Old Town Square are irresistible to tourists carrying cameras, and the Storch House, seen here, illustrates the point. That is King Wenceslas on horseback riding across the front of the house.

Prague's Old Town Square with the iconic Tyn Church in the background and some of the square's many cafes in the foreground.

These seemingly unrelated buildings are all part of Prague's Old Town Hall. The city's famed astronomical clock can be seen near the bottom of the tower at far right.

Striking sgraffito work adorns the Minute House, the Czech writer Franz Kafka's childhood home, seen on Prague's Old Town Square.

Golden Lane on Prague's Castle Hill. Kafka lived in many places, including the blue house here, No. 22.

Prague's Castle Hill seen from the Charles Bridge. One of the bridge's famous statues is visible in the foreground.

Prague's Castle Hill seen under early-morning light.

Prague's popular Charles Bridge and the Vltava River.

Hungary's Parliament building seen under late-afternoon light from the Fishermen's Bastion.

Budapest's famous Chain Bridge. The steeples of St. Stephen's Basilica are visible in the background.

Budapest's Liberation Monument, erected to commemorate Hungary's liberation by the Soviets at the end of World War II.

Gypsy entertainers, often a part of planned tours in Hungary.

Hungarian horsemen are famous for stunts like this, where one man drives five horses while standing on the backs of two. This horseman displays his skill for tourists during a regular show at Lazar Equestrian Park outside of Budapest.

A cyclist crosses in front of the Cloth Hall, at the center of Krakow's Market Square. The building, now housing small shops, recalls the city's importance as a medieval trading center, when Krakow also was Poland's capital.

Outdoor cafes bring life to Krakow's historic Market Square, but they are complemented by the scores of eateries and clubs that exist below the square's environs in centuries-old cellars.

The underground interior of the Pod Aniolami Restaurant, one of the many below-the-surface spots in Krakow.

The hilltop Wawel Castle, once home to Polish royalty. The figures in the foreground indicate the scale of the retaining walls.

Wawel Cathedral, or formally, the Archcathedral of St. Stanislaus and St. Wenceslas, coronation and burial site for most of Poland's kings.

Barracks at the Auschwitz concentration camp outside of Krakow look innocuous here, but the guard tower and barbed wire in the foreground tell another story.

View of Slovakia's Tatras Mountains, with a German World War II cemetery in the foreground.

The Bratislava Castle in Bratislava, Slovakia's capital, seen from the Danube River.

A close-up view of the Bratislava Castle, which overlooks the city's Old Town as well as the Danube.

The main square in the heart of Bratislava's Old Town.

Bratislava's Old Town Hall, seen at night.

View of the Bratislava Castle from inside the city's historic Old Town.

Outdoor cafes line the recently redeveloped Danube riverside in Bratislava, the Slovak capital.