Here you shall build a castle and call its name. Slot top product child the con prong of the golden that is my prophecy. For i am looser the prophetess legend has it that i am the mother of prague i saw the city and all her beauty long before she was built. Would you like to accompany me on a brief journey through time. In the beginning was the river the lot of much of course everything began with her here my city of prague was born a thousand years ago. To be honest she was only a Little Castle at first a backwater of history until the fourteenth century there came a ruler who made her the center of europe. Charles the fourth king of bohemia and holy Roman Emperor a visionary who planned everything in style with him progs golden age began he summoned the best architects. Prague castle rock county became his residence the hub of the Holy Roman Empire three courtyards the cathedral the royal palace forty thousand square meters of power and imposing labyrinth to which each succeeding century made its additions saint vitus cathedral the consummate union of the power of church and state and we owe it to charles the fourth for me the cathedral is a holy place the place where our teams were crowned the stone seemed to defy gravity. The. The the. The the. The the. The. The gallery above the choir. Architect to carry out his work when he was summoned to prague was just twenty three years old. To take the gothic idiom and develop. The. By his brother. Victims in the history of my city. This is no route a street which leads from the Broward County down to charles bridge with its renaissance and baroque facades a jewel of urban architecture. The signs are a reminder of the un bureaucratic days before house numbers were introduced the broken spoke. The swan with the stories they tell theyre much more appropriate to these houses than mere numbers. Casanova danced and mozart feasted here and its the proud nobility as they held their glittering balls and banquets. Every city has a place which mirrors its soul more than any other for me in prague this is charles bridge the embodiment of barack sensibility a stone avenue of saints real and imaginary each one is a legend. Saint john of new pomo the king of where he media had him thrown into the law tava from here because he refused to betray the secrets of the queens confessional hes been the patron saint of bridges ever since and well beyond the bounds of the czech lands prague has specialized in getting rid of nuisances and such ways by throwing them off bridges or more famously out of windows or simply just strangling them. Other images of charles the fourth as a young ruler and in his old age from the tower which guards the bridge he looks out on prague with its population in his day of czechs germans and jews three peoples three languages three souls a magic mixture often fruitful often frightful we need look no further than religion. Yon hoose a fundamentalist a leading player in the drama for religious and National Renewal an unbending preacher who delivered inflammatory diatribes against the moral decay of the clergy and the Holy Alliance between church and crown for all those whose privileges depended on the system a dangerous fellow so it was that in spite of being given a safe conduct he was summarily arrested and burnt as a heretic by the council of constance in fourteen fifteen the result was that the movement for reform became a revolution but the underlying conflicts remained yet it was more than two hundred years before the second act of the drama took place. The place rock county the year sixteen eighteen the twenty third of may i remember it as if it were yesterday from this window to hated arch catholic imperial emissaries were thrown to land more or less softly on a convenient dung hill. There it was then the second and more fateful defenestration of prague a trivial incident in itself but its far better off than thirty years of war. It turned Central Europe into one great battlefield my country was in the middle of it and lost her freedom to the Catholic Habsburg emperors in vienna. The period following the thirty years war is known to the rest of europe as the age of the barrage but rechecks call it. The age of darkness. Through the churches are magnificent but they represent the harmony of the hapsburgs the victors of course there are exceptions and strata of monastery is perhaps the finest near wisdom has built herself a house. Since its founding in the twelfth century strong half has been home to a Library Without parallel in the world. Half a million volumes a priceless door of manuscripts into nabila and ancient maps monasteries oldest and most precious possession is the manuscript of the structure of gospels its a long story how this codex found its way to prague and ill show you another form of wisdom. In the old Jewish Cemetery the wisdom of the word became the wisdom of the stones they tell the story of the jews of my city a story of sadness and death of persecution and expulsion a story as old as prague itself. How many graves are here no one knows one hundred fifty thousand perhaps many are jalopy dated they look as if they have sprung from the ground there was little space in the ghetto so fresh earth was continually being heaped upon the old graves to make room for new ones graves upon graves. 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