| Prague, always a new experience |
| Saturday, 28 March 2009 16:49 |
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How can one briefly describe a city with architecture and history a thousand years old, a city associated with the significant personalities and history of the Czech state, a city whose beauty has amazed its visitors since the Middle Ages? Prague is a magical, golden city of cobbled streets and a hundred spires, but, most importantly, a city that is always amazing and original. Once, you will notice the details on a historic gateway; the next time, you will discover the ornamentation on the facade of a Baroque house; and still the next how in an instant the setting sun transforms the skyline of monuments into a fairy-tale scene… Welcome to Prague, the city of everyday wonders! Why is Prague so unique? Aside from the poetic attributes, its comparison to a European textbook of architectural styles most describes the singularity of Prague. A riveting textbook, indeed, as the main roles here are played by Romanesque rotundas, Gothic steeples and cathedrals, Renaissance mansions and palaces, Jewish synagogues, Baroque churches and cloisters, and Cubist and Secessionist monuments. All this in the 866 hectares of the Historic Centre of Prague, entered in the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1992.¨
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