What does a football loving country need to reach its goals. Well tell you our german soccer gave it back to the top players in our web special. Dot com. Football made in germany. That. When the lady in white weighs a veil wolf will stalk the land or death will steal into the councils. When she smiles. Then happiness will reign in these holes to. Tell castle is the ideal breeding ground for fairy tales and legends for centuries now the restless soul of data follows and bell has flitted through the. Like an island of peace the czech town of telco is located midway between prague and vienna where the borders of bohemia moravia and Lower Austria meet. In the fourteenth century the luxembourg kings ruled this region charles the fourth assume control of it as a young margrave. Here monex feuded with one another nobleman switched allegiance and robber barons and bands of britons exploited the intrigues of those in power finally the land was devastated by religious conflict. In the mid fifteenth century things became more peaceful husain and catholic churches each accepted the existence of the other the town lay at the crossroads of important trade routes its burgers brewed beer and salt salt. Tell castle was taken over by the high adage family since fifteen twenty six theyd been faithful servants of the house of hapsburg and even more devout catholics. Thus the lady in white raised her veil and went about the council with a smile on her lips because happier times were about to dawn. In fifteen fifty zacharias the second son of the chancellor of bohemia. May tell his residents craftsman has to work right up to the last minute to have turned these part of the medieval castle into a representative palace in time for zacharias is waiting. A year later zacharias undertook a journey to italy with another bohemian heiress to crack a fashionable step at the time they studied antiquity and italian architecture from then on it was clear to this ambitious nobleman that rene songs beauty should also adorn moravia. Time was pressing because a miss. This was expected it to cancel catalina fund. Zacharias was marrying a good name and silver mines in return he offered a political career as a member of the catholic landed gentry it turned out to be far more than a happy union which makes the fairy tale council even more appealing. The blaze of fifteen thirty made a new beginning necessary that and the new selfconfidence of the ruling family mediaval telco gradually turned into a proud renascence town the local artisans work for the castle and its long sought to enhance his esteem through worthy surroundings. The owners of the gothic buildings on the Market Square began to spruce them up bakers and brewers cloth makers and joiners added a story to their small homes together with new for sands and arcades inside modesty prevailed but outwardly no expense was spared. A new style of gable helped lift the comparative gloom of the middle ages and introduced the vitality of the renaissance. How fortuitous that baker under each had married off his daughter to the castle administrator and could thus afford his masters plaster of paris artisans. What an ascent into the creative realm of the gods down below the principles above them the coats of arms of the Hydrogen Valve stein families and finally the profits of the Old Testament the credo captured in plaster a giant visiting. A Southern Breeze was now blowing through telling defying the harsh wind from the east and in the clamor of the marketplace foreign sounds could be heard the italians had arrived not only artists and artisans working in the castle but also traders and burgers could become a colorful place. The lady in white must have had much to smile about at this time when an unlikely hardage ruler ran his lands with the konami. After the hunt relatives and other members of the new realty like the luck of it. Would make their way to the castle for the festival. The noble gentleman would exchange hunting experiences over huge bowls of soup and game pastry or discuss the political scene of the court in vienna last enjoying roast pheasant solvers while the ladies would praise the virtues of spanish fashion. Over fish dishes it might be heard that oysters from tree yesterday arrived at the market in winter and that the choices pieces of furniture were made in newell burg there would then follow speciality is bite from eggs courtly gossip hungary and wine and rumors of wedding plans amongst europes aristocracy for mental edification and to a did gesture in the guests might then retire to the newly designed wings of the palace in the cold moon the musicians would already be tuning their instruments. With cries of delight the Illustrious Society would let itself be bathed in the glow from the chandeliers. The moderate pace of the stepping down says enabled the nobility to let the gaze wander. And despite the stiff colors atop their stiff robes they twisted their necks to become lost in contemplation of the magnificent ceiling. Fabled creatures with butterfly wings and fish tales scantily clad beauties small the gentleman locked in a passionate embrace with ladies of alabaster countenance. One allegory after another sprang forth from the tendons of the imagination. Wealth and power the shining torch of the enlightenment and the radiant smile of the lady in white that was the sixteenth century for tell. Them the veil fell again on the face of the lady in white and on the golden age. The error came to an end catarina found valid stein died far too young followed by her only son. There was to be no second happiness and no heir for zacharias when he remarried. It was also the end of cosmopolitan thinking and of tolerance. Once again in this region religion and politics came into conflict yet this time it was not some provincial revolt that was sparked off but the thirty years war. The lord of the castle now was williams love art of choice and calls him back he wrote his own chapter in history thanks to his marriage with the last tragic air he safeguarded his political career at a time when bohemia is aristocracy was attempting to topple the Catholic Habsburgs with patrick ism and protestantism. Sloviter was one of the imperial regions who survived being thrown out a window at what kony palace in prague by the humean protestant leaders the message of this painting is that the true faith has emerged victorious and with it the house of hapsburg. Intel churches were built and monuments to the saints hewn in stone in the mid seventeenth century the last count a slave arthur ruled in the council her aim was not to ensure the lasting renown of the family through worldly splendor but to buy herself a place in heaven. So she gave money and land to the increasingly powerful jesuits who thus took over the town center step by step it was at this time that the citizens once again began to redesign their houses now the baroque style prevailed brilliant colors with the order of the day it was as if a competition for pride and status had been organized in and around the Market Square. If youve got an angel on your roof then allah dawn my window with stucco work if you go to blue for sun ill paint mine yellow in the eighteenth century time intel began to pass more slowly it was as if the town of burned itself out with the pace of the past this former Trading Center diminished in importance industrialisation came but only on a small scale tell cremains. In the center and agricultural on the periphery. The serene and happy. By the side of his beloved wife cutting a fine. In the castle chapel the cloak remained standing at the end of the sixteenth century the settle to that seems like the rez you may have a way of life picture book of a bright era in which god and the wont work home together here. Youd think the lord and his wife were just taking an afternoon nap and the consul in the town along with them. Once upon a time intel they were and god fearing souls travelers and scientists coaches and merchants ideas came from italy covering graves from outspoken textiles from flanders and perfumed loves from spain. Cosmopolitan and peaceful. Because even though the Market Square now echoes in the more preserved something special. Depending on the light it is a postcard sized dolls house or a Majestic Theatre backdrop. Very much wrapped up in itself i mean its parts. The scorpion theyre superstars and theyve been rocking fans the world over for more than fifty years on stage in the museum. And in the documentary for ever and a day. 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