While Rachael and I were in Prague we had the luxury of being able to do some sightseeing... If you have never been there... GO ! It is such a BEAUTIFUL European city. The history in the buildings will speak to you and the memories you will bring home with you will last a lifetime.. :)
Date(s): June 28, 2007. Album by ~WudNshu~. 1 - 51 of 96 Total. 685 Visits.
1 Teri, Romana, Rachael
2 Rachael and Teri
3 Teri and Rachael on the Charles Bridge
4 Sarka, Teri , Rachael
5 Eating lunch .. Italian!! :)
6 McD's :)
7 Teri, Rachael,Sona, Timea and AHT.. in Center Prague
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11 Tour the City by horse drawn carraige...
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17 Preparing for a concert they were to give that evening in the Church
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22 This was a great little jazz combo..
23 Look at his drumsticks !! :)
24 See ???? and he was playing some awesome drums too !
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28 A store owner about to demonstrate how to put on a scarf he has for sale..
29 This is just so gorgeous !!! I had to have this picture ...
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31 Astronomical clock The oldest and most celebrated clock is on the side wall of the Old Town Hall.
32 With glittering hands and a complex series of filigreed wheels, this ornamental timepiece does not merely mark the hours. Symbols of the zodiac tell the course of the heavens, and when the bell tolls, windows fly open and mechanical apostles, skeletons, and "sinners" begin a ritualistic dance of destiny.
33 Dr. Podolský thinks the original tower was built in about 1410. It was an austere structure back then, and the clock showed only astronomical data. Later, in 1490, the tower facade was decorated with flamboyant gothic sculptures and a golden astronomical dial.
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38 Then, in the 1600's, came the mechanical figure of Death--leering and tolling the great bell. The mid-1800's brought still more additions: Wooden carvings of the twelve apostles and a calendar disk with astrological signs.
39 Everything in Prague has a story, and so it is with the Old Town clock. Natives claim that when the mechanical figures were created, town officials had the clockmaker blinded so that he would never duplicate his masterpiece.
40 In vengeance, the blind man climbed the tower and stopped his creation. The clock remained silent for more than fifty years. Centuries later, during dreary decades of communist domination, the legend of the blinded clockmaker became a METAphor for thwarted creativity.
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51 Looking down a street in the Center.. do not park in the 'blue lines' or you will see what can happen .. :)
