Myo Hotel Caruso

First recorded in 1594 as a baker's house called 'At Beran', the corner plot at U Milosrdných has outlasted several buildings on the same ground. One early owner, Nathanael Vodňanský, led the Bohemian Revolt against Emperor Ferdinand II and was executed at Old Town Square after the 1620 defeat at White Mountain. The street takes its name from nearby monasteries founded in the 13th century; the district itself, renamed Josefov in 1850, sits inside Prague's old Jewish Quarter, first settled in the 11th century. The building demolished here in 1893 gave way to the current structure, completed in 1908 in Art Nouveau style. Its interiors draw on the work of Alphonse Mucha, a contemporary of the tenor Enrico Caruso, whose name the hotel carries. Original artwork, stained glass and Bohemian crystal fill the public rooms. A nod to opera history hangs on the walls too: Caruso once sang alongside the Czech soprano Emma Destinnová, now pictured on the 2,000 koruna note. It is a compact stay, a short walk from Old Town Square, the Spanish Synagogue and Charles Bridge. Breakfast runs as a buffet each morning, and you can hear little beyond the quiet of the surrounding streets after dark. Check-in starts at 3pm.