Welcome to quadriga art what is that its not about maybe i can tell you that i think that the womens talk. Smart women. Have smart talk with people who are smart station to find out what its like w. Me. G. W. True diversity. Where the world of science is at home in many languages. On a lot of programming go in there you know. Our innovations magazine for. Every week and always looking to the future fund d w dot com science and research for asia. Eyes a great fortress whose glory and splendor will reach to the stars here you shall build a castle and call it. A child the con prodigal that is my prophecy. For i am a goose the prophetess legend has it that i am the mother of prague i saw the city in 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 of lata 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 metres of power an 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 kings were crowned the stone seemed to defy gravity. The gallery above the choir ambulatory charles the fourth the emperor found an emperor among architects to carry out his work was summoned to prague page apollo is just twenty three years old a genius he was to take the gothic and develop it was. This room of the cathedral is a really great in itself. Chapel apollo dedicated it to our patron saint good King Wenceslas the First Christian to occupy the throne of bohemia. The saint was murdered by his brother one of many 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 but the stories they tell theyre much more appropriate to these houses than mere numbers. Casanova danced and mozart feasted here amidst 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 poem look the king of bohemia had him thrown into the lot 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 dunghill. There it was then the second and more fateful defenestration of prague a trivial incident in itself but its far better off the thirty years 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 we czechs 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 strong of monasteries 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 the monasteries oldest and most precious possession is the manuscript of the stronghold 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 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 dilapidated they look as if they have run 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. The ancient Jewish Cemetery this is prague too like the palaces the churches and the bridges like the stories of artists and warriors movers and saints those who destroyed the city and those who rebuilt or a magic mixture indie. Rock he turned up the morning. Electronica he found the right mix of their. Fans he turned them into chart toppers. Legendary producer connie plug his son gives a personal account of the man behind the music. Kitchens. Commentary to our own land jerome x. Series is a very simple recipe but thats why i made a sly can have. Fifty international dish is. The recipe for cooking the dishes to join. The kitchen. The city. In sixty minutes long. Takes away. With the wonderful people and stories that make the game so special. True fans. Love. More than football online