Kveta Zrustova, 91, can clearly recall the spring day in 1938 when she entered a tiny house in Prague's famed Golden Lane to ask advice from the fortune teller Madame de Thebes. "I was scared stiff.

Golden Lane sits adjacent to the Prague Castle and consists of an assortment of small, brightly painted houses. These houses used to host historical figures, like Franz Kafka, from their ...

Kveta Zrustova, 91, can clearly recall the spring day in 1938 when she entered a tiny house in Prague's famed Golden Lane to ask advice from the fortune teller Madame de Thebes.

Once home to royal archers, artists and fortune-tellers, Prague's historic Golden Lane, a cluster of tiny houses fitted under the arches of the city castle, is one of the country's top tourist draws.

The Golden Lane along the northern side of Prague Castle is a row of small 16th century homes built to house the castle soldiers and goldsmiths (the lane used to be called Goldsmith Lane before ...