Prague

Fülszöveg

In no other capital of Europe has the past been so completely preserved as in Prague. Despite a history marked by defeat and disaster, the city's stones speak eloquently of every period in its evolution. Now deep underground, vaulted basements were once the ground floor of merchants' houses who by the 9C had made the city "richer by commerce than all others", while the many-arched Charles Bridge over the broad Vltava is only the greatest of many monuments from the time when Prague lay at the heart of the Holy Román Empire. The splendours of the Baroque age are everywhere, in aristocratic palaces as much as in a glorious array of churches, while more recent times have left a heritage of early Modern building unrivalled elsewhere. On its rock spur above the river; the Castle is a synthesis of every period in the city's history. The spirit infusing this glorious assemblage of architecture is a fascinating amalgam. There is magic and mystery (Rabbi Loew's Gólem, the court of eccentric... Tovább

Fülszöveg

In no other capital of Europe has the past been so completely preserved as in Prague. Despite a history marked by defeat and disaster, the city's stones speak eloquently of every period in its evolution. Now deep underground, vaulted basements were once the ground floor of merchants' houses who by the 9C had made the city "richer by commerce than all others", while the many-arched Charles Bridge over the broad Vltava is only the greatest of many monuments from the time when Prague lay at the heart of the Holy Román Empire. The splendours of the Baroque age are everywhere, in aristocratic palaces as much as in a glorious array of churches, while more recent times have left a heritage of early Modern building unrivalled elsewhere. On its rock spur above the river; the Castle is a synthesis of every period in the city's history. The spirit infusing this glorious assemblage of architecture is a fascinating amalgam. There is magic and mystery (Rabbi Loew's Gólem, the court of eccentric Emperor Rudolph II), a sense of the absurd (Hasek's Good Soldier Svejk, Kafka's Josef K), as weil as the clear-headedness personified by John Huss and Presidents Masaryk and Havel. The light-hearted Prague loved by Mozart is best experienced in Spring, when Petiin Hill foams with orchard blossom. But this is a city that charms at all seasons. Vissza