Prague 2024
"Old Town" Prague visit.
June 3-6, 2024
June 3-6, 2024
Art Deco Imperial Hotel - where we stayed
Elevator Doors
Our room door
Dinning room ceiling
Attractive cast iron manhole cover featuring the City crest in the centre of Prague (Praha) Prazska Kanalizace means Prague Sewerage Board
The Municipal House
Prašná brána City gate built in the 15th century
Also known as The Gothic Powder Tower
Street to the Old Town Square
The European way to teach kids
Old Town Prague
June, 2024
Old Town Square
The Church of Saint Nicholas It was built between 1704 and 1755 on the site where formerly a Gothic church from the 13th century stood, which was also dedicated to Saint Nicholas.
It has been described as the greatest example of Prague Baroque
In the 11th century, the Old Town plaza area was occupied by a Romanesque church, which was built for foreign merchants coming to the nearby Týn Courtyard.
It was replaced by an early Gothic Church of Our Lady before Týn in 1256. The church became the center of the German inhabitants of Prague's Old Town
Church of Our Lady
Gothic Tyn Church
Sun Dial
Old Town Hall In 1338 the councillors of the Old Town bought a large patrician house from the Volflin family and adapted it for their purposes.
Entrance to Old Town Hall
The clock was first installed in 1410, making it the third-oldest astronomical clock in the world and the oldest clock still in operation
The Orloj is mounted on the southern wall of Old Town Hall. The clock mechanism has three main components – the astronomical dial, representing the position of the Sun and Moon in the sky; statues of various Catholic saints stand on either side of the clock; "The Walk of the Apostles", an hourly show of moving Apostle figures and a figure of a skeleton that represents Death, striking the time; and a calendar dial with medallions representing the months.
The medieval world view that the planets revolve around the earth, not the sun
Leaving Old Town Square area
The House at The Minute has a facade dating from the early 17th C.
Entrance to Gothic Charles Bridge
Prague Castle accross the Vltava river
Charles Bridge beginning stone layed in 1357
In 1683, statue St John Nepomuk was set up King Wenceslas IV had this holy man thrown into the river from this spot
School kids learning about their home town
Narrowest street in Prague
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Wedding party visitor
Ingrid trying to get bitten
Back to Old Town area
Walk around the Jewish Quarter
The brick gable was added in the 15th C. to this temple It is the oldest synagogue in Europe still in use today
Clock on the Jewish Town Hall The hands run "backwards" like the Hebrew script
The house of Alexander Storch, publisher and bookseller
Wenceslas Square in The New Town area
Wenceslas Square
Wenceslas Square
Wenceslas statue and National Musuem
National Museum
King Wenceslas
Back down Wenceslas Square
Interesting building facade
Interesting facade
Views from bus window
The Dancing House
View across river
Prague skyline
