Hereby you find the information about the housing in Prague, sent previously to all participants via e-mail.

1) Everybody will be staying in Hotel Symposion - the housing facility of the Open society fund. The address is Prokopova (street) 9. Telephone 22 78 09 09.

2) The hotel is not far from the Central Station (Hlavni nadrazi), so if you arrive there get out of the building, turn right and follow the crowds of people that are usually rushing back and forth through the park, until you see a tram stop. There you get on the tram number 5, 9, or 26 in the direction of an underpass (on the right when you come from the station) and get off at the stop called "Lipanska" (it should be the second stop). Then you cross the road and take a small street called also Lipanska going down the hill until you reach a small park. The latter you can cross diagonally to the left-bottom corner, next to which you will find the hotel.

For a detailed map of the neighbourhood (bearing the name "Zizkov" (after the Hussite leader Zizka, whose statue on horse-back dominates one of the hills nearby), consult the web page:

http://www.maps.cz/demo/AWallD.exe?IMap+ResZoom2+Windows+1+2+6+16522+10960+"Prokopova%25"+0+4197

Since you will probably want to see also the rest of the town, we advise you to buy a city map, right at the station or at the airport.

3) For those that either fly or arrive at another station: you should get to "Hlavni nadrazi" by Metro. It is on the line C, marked red on the schemes. Those arriving by plane, you are advised to take a bus 119 that stops in front of the airport, which will drop you off at a large "round square" (this is the meaning of the Czech "Kulate namesti"). There is the terminus "Dejvicka"of the Metro line A marked green. You switch to line C at "Museum".

4) It is also possible to take taxi, but, and this is very humiliating for us to say, Prague is known to have the rudest and shrewdest taxi drives of all Europe. If you have to travel by taxi, please: 1) first ask for the price 2) before you pay ask for a bill. Be careful not to get cheated as it is known to happen to foreigners every day. But, once more, do not travel by taxi if you do not have to.

The Prague "public transport" is reasonably good and cheap at the same time. Tickets you can get at every Metro station and/or from newspaper stalls. For a single journey not more than 5 stops by Metro or no longer than 15 minutes by buses/trams you pay 8 crowns, for a ticket which entitles you to use public transport for 60 minutes (switching included) you pay 12 crowns. Remember to punch/stamp the ticket when boarding on the vehicle/entering the subway.