EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY -- PRAGUE -- 1995
What astounded me most about Prague was the dearth of destruction from WWII. The old city center was intact and most of the renowned architecture was still in good repair.
The first 2 are from just outside the Prague castle (established around 880 C.E). The last 2 are from buildings in the old city center which is next to the new city which is the ex-pat area for Americans.
And as the work was commissioned in the period 800 to the late 1800's, must of the imagery is religious.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.I love Prague. You're walking around town, and you hear American jazz, folk and blues, and then you hear polkas, and accordions and all types of klezmer, and a classical string quartet ... what a scene! I was lucky enough to be a chaperone for my daughter's choir, and they sang in St. Nicolas church, right on the old town square--it's like something out of a fairy tale.
One of my favorite history lessons I learned while on the tour of the city was the origin of getting rid of unpopular leaders through the practice of 'defenestration,' from the Italian word 'finestra' meaning window--throw them out the window!
p-nullifidian
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@Snickers77 Quite a while ago--2005. My daughter's 30 now! It's so cool to be there I the summer when all the choirs from North America and all over the world converge. There were still a few remnants of the Soviet era in architecture and monuments. Sometimes it's hard to imagine what has happened, just in my lifetime, as I stood in Wenceslas Square, where the rallies and protests of the Prague Spring of '68 took place.
I was there 5 years ago it was a wonderful experience truly the cross roads of Europe.
MarlaRochelle
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Being based in religion does not mean these things cannot be beautiful!
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