Europe on a Shoestring - Central & Eastern Europe (PDF Chapter)

This is the Central & Eastern Europe chapter from Lonely Planet’s Europe on a Shoe-string guidebook.

Central and Eastern Europe still retain a feeling of the ‘other’ Europe – wilder, less refined and more remote than their cousins in the west. Medieval capitals like Prague, Kraków and Bu-dapest number among the continent’s most beautiful cities and belong on any first-timer’s list.

• ramble around an intact 14th-century town core and cross the continent’s most beautiful bridge in Prague
• maps
• admire the biggest medieval public square in Europe situated right in the heart of Poland’s historic capital, Kraków
• transport
• bow your head in remembrance of the more than a million murdered at Ausch-witz-Birkenau in WWII
• restaurants & accommodation

Coverage includes: Czech Republic, Prague, Bohemia, Moravia, Czech Republic Survival Guide, Poland, Warsaw , Kraków, Poland Survival Guide, Hungary, Budapest , Northeastern Hungary , Hungary Survival Guide, Romania, Bucharest, Transylvania, Romania Survival Guide, Bulgaria, Sofia, Plovdiv, Koprivshtitsa, Veliko Târnovo, Varna, Sozopol, Bulgaria Survival Guide, Ukraine, Kyiv, Lviv, Ukraine Survival Guide.