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Day 9 -- Sightseeing in Prague.
Sightseeing around Prague.
It was raining that day...
...so they let the guard stay in his little house.
This is one of their parliament buildings.
They were built up on older Roman ruins.
Some call Prague the "Paris of the East", and in the background here you can see their version of the Eiffel Tower.
On any European, you have to visit the cathedral, in this case St. Vitus's.
Another view outside...
...and inside.
They did have some beautiful stained glass.
Originally founded in 930, and the current church was built in 1344. How did they build this high?
A burial crypt.
Another crypt with a wood carving of what the city looked like back then.
St. Wenceslaus, from which we get the historically-incorrect song "Good King Wenceslaus."
Silver is plentiful in the area.
The entry to the lower crypts below the santuary.
The organ pipes.
One of the naves.
These three insignia: the lion is the symbol of Bohemia and signifies power and sovereignty. The eagle is the Moravian eagle, adapted from the St. Wenceslaus eagle of the Holy Roman Empire. The black crowned eagle symbolizes the Silezian region of the country.
Around town, there were literally dozens of concerts in churches and halls.
Moving on to Prague castle and another cathedral.
In the town area in the castle, the pink house on the left is one where Franz Kafka did some writing.
The views from the castle...
...and through one of the parapets.
A cute busker we saw on the way to the Charles Bridge.
On we go to the Charles Bridge, the main bridge connecting the two halves of Prague.
The water level is very low.
Normally there would be vendors all over the bridge, but the rain has chased most of them away.
Chapel Saint Salvator Klementinum.
The twin towers (for St. Peter and St. Paul) of the Church of our Lady Before Tyn.
We stop off the square at this bar and cafe...
...and have a peasant lunch of some soup and salad. Look, salad! And of course, more beer.
Look, they still have Trabants on the road.
This is an open air food court where they are roasting an entire piglet.
That evening, we decided to have Italian food at Pizzeria Ristorante Corleone. Kimberly with pizza, Wade with carbonara, and of course, more beer and wine.
Just an example of how hard it is to read any signage in Czech. We could figure out that "Jogy" was "Yoga".