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Kafka had a love-hate relationship with Prague, but he found it hard to leave. He is quoted as saying, "Prague never lets you go, this dear little mother has sharp claws."

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Kafka studied law and interned in this building. His time here inspired his story "The Trial." He was a lawyer for an insurance company, and observed how humans can be a tiny piece of a large "mechanism."

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1st Prague University - Charles University 

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1st Prague University - Charles University 

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This university was started by Charles IV and Kafka went here. One side of school was German and the other Czech. Kafka attended the German side.

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At the base of the Memorial to Franz Kafka, one can see a reference to The Metamorphosis.

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Sculptor Jaroslav Rona created this bronze sculpture of a headless male figure in a suit with a somewhat smaller figure of Kafka sitting on his shoulders. He was inspired by Kafka's work, specifically the show story "Description of the Struggle." He had wanted to depict The Metamorphosis but a cockroach wasn't a very desirable sculpture so if one looks closely at the ground at the base of the statue, one will see a reference to The Metamorphosis in the sidewalk - a cockroach-like design!

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This is the bridge Kafka could see from his home that is now the Intercontinental building. The bridge inspired him to write The Judgment in one single night. It is a story about a father and son having a random argument until the father tells the son to kill himself by walking off the bridge and the son does it!. When he wrote this story, it was when Kafka knew writing was what he primarily wanted to do.

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Kafka's family moved a lot as his father's shops became more successful. Now called the Intercontinental, this is another building where he lived - and Kafka lived with his parents most of his life. The view from here inspired him to write the short story The Judgment, and his novel The Metamorphosis. The apartment in The Metamorphosis is based on this apartment. He always complained about his family, neighbors, the elevator (when it was invented) - in The Metamorphosis the character Gregor becomes very sensitive to the sounds of his family and the apartment, which is similar to how Kafka actually felt.

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One of Kafka's favorite places to swim, both as a kid and adult. Also where he has many memories of his father, who took him here. His father was a big, strong man as opposed to Kafka who was a very frail child. HIs father was also abusive.

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Modeled after Eiffel Tower and built in 1891, Kafka saw this as a child. In one of his many homes, Kafka had a view of Petrin Hill and it inspired him to write his short story "Description of the Struggle," a dream-like with many mentions of Prague which is rare in his writings. The narrator is at a party and decides to walk up Petrin Hill in the middle of the winter, describing his journey.

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Kafka's friend Max Brod re-introduced Kafka by presenting his writings at a conference at the Strahov Monastery. Kafka had asked his friend to destroy his writings after he died, but Max kept them. Max had escaped Prague in 1939 to go to Palestine, but returned in 1963 to give a speech about Kafka and his writings.

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Kafka rented a cottage on Golden Lane at the Prague Castle with his sister to have a quiet place to work, but he did not live there. Kafka was known to say the ideal place to write was a basement with someone giving him meals without speaking, but this was a contradiction to his life - he loved socializing and being around friends.

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Although Kafka died before WWII, his sisters, who he was very close to, were still alive. His younger sister was married to a Christian man, and she divorced her husband to save her children from the concentration camps. She herself was sent to Terezin and did not survive the war.

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Kafka attended several synagogues in Prague, but the Pinkas was his favorite. There are references to the Jewish Quarter in his writing that are described as "dream-like memories." Also, an insult was to called a Jewish person a "cockroach" and Kafka was very aware of the anti-Semitism, which some say translated into "self-hate" when he portrayed a semi-autobiographical character in Gregor the cockroach in The Metamorphosis.

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Kafka was a big supporter of the Czech Republic regaining a sense of nationalism. His mother was a German speaker so he his stronger language was German, but he was really good at Czech. The Rudophinum promoted Czech culture and theater, which Kafka supported.

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Born 1883 at edge of Jewish Quarter. He was published, but after the Prague Spring, it was hard to find his books. Not popular during time of Nazis since he was Jewish. No one really knew who he was. He became well-known because of the first wave of tourists after the Velvet Revolution.

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The square where this building is has been named for Franz Kafka because it is supposedly where Kafka's family lived when he was born - there is a debate about whether he was really born there though.