Prague shopping centers

Prague today has a decent mix of well-known big name western stores, local brands, souvenir shops and specialist outlets and list of shopping centers in the area continues to grow. Read here about central shopping areas.

Prague is a fashion epicenter of the Czech Republic and the list of shopping centers and shopping malls in the area continues to grow rapidly. Major Prague’s shopping malls with boutiques and department stores are situated in New Town Prague. Nobody can imagine holiday or city break without a bit of retail therapy, and while Prague can’t provide great shopping cities like New York, Paris and London , there are enough interesting outlets and places to keep all but the fussiest of shoppers happy. In fact, today Prague has a mix of well-known brands and big name western stores, famous local brands, souvenir shops and specialist outlets.

You can easily find well-known brands from all over the world these days and moreover it’s possible to find some deals that are nice to your credit card too. Shopping centers offer a variety of European and American brand fashions, sporting goods, leather goods, shoes, jewelry, cosmetics, vitamins and supplements, and children’s toys. When you wish to have a break from numerous shops and your loaded shopping bags, most of Prague shopping centers have cafes and restaurants offering a coffee, snack or full meal. The larger shopping malls have cinema theaters, children’s play areas and supermarkets.

The central Prague shopping area starts in Wenceslas Square, continues to street Na Prikope and in direction of Namesti Republiky – Republic Square. If you wish to have luxury boutique shopping, go to Parizska Street. The Old Town Square and Mala Strana (Lesser Town) have a variety of small shops and art galleries. The shops located in the very centre of Prague and in shopping malls are open longer time. Large supermarkets generally open until 20.00 or 22.00. For buyers convenience most stores in the Prague city centre and tourist locations are open on weekends and holidays.

New large shopping centre Palladium has just opened its gates to shoppers and visitors on the Square of Republic (Náměstí Republiky). Estée Lauder, Lush, Benetton, Body Shop, Marks & Spencer, Tommy Hilfiger Sports, H&M and many others make this the largest area for shopping in Prague. It is right in Prague city centre, just a five-minute walk from the Old Town Square, across from the Art Nouveau Municipal House and the Gothic Powder Tower. A big section of the Palladium shopping center is devoted to latest fashion. Beside cloth there are also shops with books, toys, fresh groceries, household goods and other consumer goods. Palladium shopping mall offers a variety of services from wide range of shops to a post office, bank, hair stylist and dry-cleaner.

Nový Smíchov is one of the biggest shopping centers in Prague providing more than 150 outlets. Shoppers can buy here the latest European fashions or browse through an international collection of magazines and books or find anything from a bottle of wine to a bicycle at the huge Carrefour supermarket. Nový Smíchov shopping mall is just a few minutes’ metro ride from Malá Strana (Old Town) and here you can find things much cheaper than in the States or Western Europe. The French retail hypermarket Carrefour now draws Czech ones by the thousands and is very popular among buyers. There are 3 levels where international jeans shops stand near fashion and cosmetic boutiques like Marella, Zara, and Body Basics. If you wish to buy shoes you can choose from the homegrown post-Communist return of Bata (originally launched last century in Moravia), to the German favorite Salamander.

Reachable by metro (line A) and tram, the is close enough to the city centre to allow a quick shopping spree (or movie) without interrupting all of your sightseeing plans. A cinema, 120 shops IMAX theatre, as well as a diversity of eateries make Palac Flora Vinohrady’s best place to shop ’till you drop. Almost all of the stores in the shooping centre include all the latest brand-name fashion, as well as toys, gifts, shoes, electronics and media, and several restaurants and fast food outlets for quick bites.

Cerna Ruze, or the “Black Rose” department store houses men’s, women’s, and children’s fashions. You will find many boutiques with a great variety of shoes include Pierre Cardin and Roberto Cavalli. This shopping whish includes three-floor full of fashionable shops is located just in the city centre in two historical passages and several buildings. The best way to accesses it is from Na Prikope 12 or from Panska 4. It is just next to Wenceslas Square.

Fashion goods and cosmetics, sportwears and ties, baby carts, electronics and leather goods and pearls – all that and more you can find in Myslebek Shopping Gallery. Two floors of cosmetics, sporting and leather goods, fashion as well shoes and jewellery fill this modern shopping centre. This cosy small shopping centre is located in a great modern building just on the opposite side of Cerna Ruze shopping mall. You might access it from street Na Prikope or from the square Uhelny Trh.

The Slovanský dům is a shopping centre located also on Na Příkopě. You will find there a number of stores like Nautica, Mexx, Tommy Hilfiger, Miss Sixty, Cerruti Jeans, Beltissimo. When your feet get swollen and you wallet drained, you can make break at one of the many cafes or eateries. There is also a multiplex cinema located in the mall, offering movies at any time of the day.

The Vinohrady Market Hall at Vinohradská 50 is an historical place located a few streets down Vinohradská street from the Jiřího z Poděbrad Square. In 1994, when it was opened for the very fist time, the interior of the Vinohradsky Pavilon had been totally renovated, however the new shopping centre is located in the same building where before the Vinohrady market hall (Vinohradska trznice) took place. This historical hall market is one of the three remaining in Prague. Lately, some brand new names and some smaller shops make their residence here, having an Albert supermarket as the principal shoppers’ destination.