Kino Lucerna

Dinner and a movie is a classic date anywhere in the world―so why not in Prague? And if you do have dinner and movie with your lover in Prague, there’s no place more romantic to catch a film than Kino Lucerna. First opened in 1907, Kino Lucerna was the first permanent cinema in Bohemia and one of the first in all of Europe, part of the groundbreaking Lucerna Palace complex. Lucerna Palace was the brainchild of Vaclav Havel, father of the famous first president of the Czech Republic by the same name.

It quickly became the center of modern Czech cultural life during that most romantic period of Czech history, the interwar period in the early 1900s, a time where art and the intelligentsia flourished. Though those times have long since passed, Kino Lucerna captures a piece of that romantic past, with its richly decorated Art Nouveau interior and marble archways. Its orange seats can accommodate 453 moviegoers. Surprisingly, few tourists visit this place probably due to the fact that most movie screenings are in Czech. But ticket prices are reasonable, the projection equipment is cutting-edge, seating is plentiful, and there’s perhaps no better place in Prague to go on an authentic Czech-style date, a date which hasn’t fundamentally changed in over a century.