Praha magic city #6
Prague former capital city of the Bohemian kingdom.. Prague the magic city.. where the alchemists tried to find the eternal life elixir, their tiny houses still painted in bright colours in the "street of gold" just beneath the Castle.. Never have I seen such a castle, so huge, there is a cathedral inside the walls which looks like a chapel in comparison to the fortress. I understood there how Franz K.composed his master novel. On Charles bridge, leering statues are glancing mischieviously to passers by, they know their time will come. A maze of narrow streets and corridors are linking the avenues downtown, when the fog is coming down at sunset the poetic behaviour is to lose one's way and feel the oozing pressure of ancient history.. rabbi Laue's Golem..
Art Nouveau buildings are spread over the town, fifteen years ago they were considered as decadent now they have been revamped and Klimt's golden mosaics shine on the walls up to the sky somewhere.
I was told that in some places I went to, I was the first ever French person.. Bohemia, Praha, Viserad, the wizzard heart of Europe.
Art Nouveau buildings are spread over the town, fifteen years ago they were considered as decadent now they have been revamped and Klimt's golden mosaics shine on the walls up to the sky somewhere.
I was told that in some places I went to, I was the first ever French person.. Bohemia, Praha, Viserad, the wizzard heart of Europe.
posted by Jacques_ at 8:31 AM
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First things first: Prague is a very beautiful city. With some six hundred years of architecture virtually untouched by natural disaster or war, few other cities, anywhere in Europe, look as good. Straddling the winding River Vltava, with a steep wooded hill to one side, the city retains much of its medieval layout and the street facades remain smothered in a rich mantle of Baroque, Rococo and Art Nouveau, all of which successfully escaped the vanities and excesses of postwar redevelopment.
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