Take a buzzy trip to Prague's beer-laden Plzen

The centre of Pilsen is clean and rather pretty, not unlike how you’d want a pilsner to be. — Photos: CzechTourism/dpa

The tourist site that draws most visitors to Plzen (sometimes “Pilsen”) is conveniently located just a five-minute walk downhill from the main train station. And it’s likely that most visitors do exactly what the group of middle-aged men walking in front of me are doing: go directly from the station to the brewery.

Brewery tourism already exists in many cities but it’s pretty unusual for a brewery to be the most visited site in a city.