Magica Praga - April 2011

A week in Prague with its Magic and its fascination.
During the Easter week the Globetrotters have travelled to discover Prague :-)





Ready to go with our books and our willing to reveal Prague's secrets.
What we found, a part from San Pietrini that destroyed (at least mine...) our feet was a city in all his different perspectives






The shopping Prague, in Celetna street, which we walked 2-3 times a day to reach the centre and the other side of the river from our hotel. 

The religious Prague... even though a person I know told me that most of the Czech have no religion, Prague is covered with catholic or hussite churches or Synagogues. 
The golden Hebrew text over the Crucifix  on   
Charles Bridge is from 1696. It was placed in order to punish a Prague Jew, Eliass Backoffen who debased the Holy Cross. The text is derived from the words of the prophet Isaiah and reads, in English,Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of Hosts. These words, which are the origin of the Sanctus in the Mass, are an important confession of faith in the Jewish tradition as well. 


Visiting Josefov, its Synagogues and the famous old Jewish Cemetery was very interesting.


Its atmosphere was a bit ruined by too many tourists (same as we were...) nonetheless you could breathe its history through the tombstones , the significant names on them and the search of the Golem...whose spirit still wanders about the synagogues. 

The historical Praque, of which the Jewish Quarter is part of course, which shows 




The Charles Bridge over the Moldau River which you cross to walk up to the Castle 


Whatever this writing  means.... I still could not find out - it is located in the Kanzleizimmer where the Defenestration took place

Mysterious writing

Defenestration window

The (2nd) defenestration was the beginning of the Thirty Years' War

Green Prague

green or grey :-) ? 

Culinary Prague

Prague full of Arts and Artists

Including Bohumil and Franz... 
Prague boasts having creative artists like

Luca and Silvia in the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art

and Rapunzel-Elisa on her tower!

Horror Movie Director Luca looking for inspiration in the Tyn Courtyard

looking for innocent actresses who could resist to his charme ....




and victims like Ludmilla who could not! well..but that is history of course. 

She was strangled with her own veil by order of her daughter-in-law

French and Spanish influence in Modern Times

             
             How could I not find Roman "art" even in Prague???? this is Ponte Milvio migrated! 






Eventually our Movie Director Luca found inspiration through Toto Cotugno's Songs and in St.Jacob's church with its shrivelled up arm.

Did we generate a chartlist of what every single Globetrotter liked most in Prague? I don't remember.