Prague Local Guides

04/02/2024

The comparation of the Czech Budweiser and the American Budweiser 😉🍺
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22/01/2024

Did you know that “guanches”, the first inhabitants of Canary Islands used a special whistled language and also Berber language? This language of guanches extinct in several hundred years after Spanish conquistadores defeted this tribe in late 15 century. Their culture was a stone age culture and they mumified bodies of their deceased members.
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21/01/2024

Pictures from our trip to the capital city of the Canary Islands - Santa Cruz de Tenerife 🇮🇨🇪🇸

06/01/2024

Villa Tugendhat was built in 1929–1930 for Greta and Fritz Tugendhat to a design by the German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich.
Mies’ design principle of “less is more” and emphasis on functional amenities created a fine example of early functionalist architecture, a groundbreaking new vision in building design at the time.
It is the only example of modern architecture in the Czech Republic inscribed in the list of UNESCO World Cultural Heritage sites.
Villa Tugendhat has also become a venue for political meetings. The most famous of these took place in 1992, when the then prime ministers Václav Klaus and Vladimír Mečiar agreed in the garden on the division of Czechoslovakia.
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03/01/2024

⚔️ Slavkov at Brno city 🇦🇹 X 🇷🇺 X 🇫🇷
We have just visited a memorial to one of the most famous battles from Napoleonic wars - Battle of Austerlitz (2 December 1805), which is close to Brno (Czech Republic). Napoleon managed to defeat in this battle both Russian and Austrian Empires. Because 3 emperors fought there at the same time, it is called “Battle of the Three Emperors”.

19/11/2023

Pictures from my private tours with mini van in Prague
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⛪️ Church of Our Lady Victorious (Church of the Infant Jesus)

17/07/2023

🖼️🎨 Josef Mánes - one of the most important Czech artists of the 19th century had exhibition in Prague.

The exhibition featured more than 400 exhibits from 25 public institutions and private collections, including the original calendar plate of the Prague Astronomical Clock (that he painted) from the collections of the Museum of the City of Prague (ngprague.cz).

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10/07/2023

📸🚲On the trip to cubist villa that belonged to sugar factory in Litol (architect Emil Kralicek 1912-1913)

06/07/2023

📸 IDIOM 🇸🇰🇨🇿
A column of c. 8000 books composed by Slovak sculptor Matej Krén in 1998.
The old bookes were provided by Municipal Library of Prague where you can also find this piece of art.

05/07/2023

🎥 Armor from the movie A Knight’s Tale with Heath Ledger in main role.⚔️
👉🏻 Visit the Golden Lane in Prague Castle!

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01/07/2023

🏰 The Golden Lane originated after the construction of a new northern wall of Prague Castle. The area of the northern bailey was used for the building of modest dwellings, which are now the last remainder of the small-scale architecture of Prague Castle.
👉🏻 From 1916 to 1917 house No. 22 was inhabited by the writer Franz Kafka. (hrad.cz)🇨🇿
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24/06/2023

🏰 Castle in Lysá nad Labem and its French garden
🏛️ “Good King Wenceslas” chapel (1692 built)
👉🏻 The sculptures were created by very famous workshops of baroque sculptors Matthias Bernhard Braun and Ignaz Franz Platzer in beginning of 17 hundreds (18 century)

20/06/2023

Ex*****on place and gallows in Small Fortres_Terezín Concentration Camp

18/06/2023

🌉🌁 Charles Bridge in Prague 🏰🇨🇿
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👉🏻 This is an astrological date picked by Holy Roman Emperor and Bohemian King Charles IV. (also known as Charles of Luxembourg) for laying the foundation stone of the Charles Bridge. The building of the medieval bridge took him and his son Wenceslas IV. more than 50 years.
👉🏻 Charles IV. wanted to build a bridge that would be strong enough to survive floods. The previous medieval bridge in Prague - Judith Bridge - collapsed because of one flood that came in 1342.
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12/06/2023

🗿Michal Trpák - Artist🇨🇿
👉🏻 The sculptures and paintings made by Michal Trpak are in public spaces and private collections around Europe, America and Russia. In Prague you can find his sculptures in front of Mosaic House at Hostivar Golf course or in many office houses. Three sculptures of Trpak are cruising the seas in the atrium of Mein Schiff 4 cruise ship. His works were displayed on many exhibitions around Europe, like in 2014 at Icastica in Arezzo Italy, Sercret Garden Party Uk, River Gallery Bratislava Slovakia, In 2015 his works were shown at exhibition in Stuttgart Germany, Ministry of Culture of Czech Republic and many others (artsper.com).
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04/06/2023

🏰 The Lány Chateau 🇨🇿
👉🏻 The Baroque chateau in the village of Lany in the midst of the Krivoklat woods, not far from Prague, is the official summer residence of the presidents of the Czech Republic (hrad.cz).
👉🏻 The Lány Chateau, The Chateau Park and The Lany Game Park are nice places to visit if you spend about a week in the Czech Republic or if you already visited Prague before.

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04/06/2023

🏰 Křivoklát Castle in the Czech Republic 🇨🇿
👉🏻 This medieval castle was built by Otokar I. Přemysl in first third od 12 hudrets. However, a first castle for hunting on this place was built here in 1109 (more than 900 years ago).
The castle has very rich history full of wars, fires and renovations. It was used as a prison as well during late 15 hundreds during the rule of Rudolf II. Habsburg, and famous alchemist Sir Edward Kelley was imprisoned here for about 2 years.

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28/05/2023

🪦 At the end of Sněmovní street at Pětikostelní square in Prague stands the recently unveiled monument to Dr. Milada Horáková, which also stands to commemorate resolve and resistance against totalitarianism. The winning design by Academic sculptor Josef Faltus shows a skylark, alighted on a microphone, like the one Milada Horáková stood in front of at the show trial for her alleged espionage and high treason.
👉🏻 So called “Monster Trials” were trials in communist Czechoslovakia during 1950s. They were made up trials focused to enemies of the communism or against some communist groups that were marked as enemies to the regime as well.
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27/05/2023

🪦 St. John of Nepomuk’s (or John Nepomucene’s) grave in ⛪️ St. Vitus Cathedral (Prague Castle) 🇨🇿
👉🏻 The saint was living in Kingdom of Bohemia from 1345 to 1393 , and he has this magnificent grave made of 2 tond (4000 Ib) of silver. It was ordered from our empress Maria Theresia in 1736.
👉🏻 He was one of the patron saints of the Czechs who was murdered during the bitter conflict of church and state that plagued Bohemia in the latter 14th century. In 1390 he was made vicar general for the archbishop of Prague. In 1393 the archbishop, with John’s support, excommunicated one of the favourites of King Wenceslas IV of Bohemia and thwarted the king’s ambition to make a new bishopric out of the province of Prague. John was arrested as the archbishop’s chief agent. Wenceslas personally tortured him with fire, after which he reconsidered and released him on an oath of secrecy regarding his treatment. John, however, was dying, and, to conceal the evidence, Wenceslas had him gagged, shoved into a goatskin, and cast into the Vltava River from the Charles Bridge in Prague. Bohemian Catholics later regarded him as a martyr. The Austrian chronicler Thomas Ebendorfferus’s account that John was killed for refusing to reveal to the king the confessions of his wife, Queen Sophia, was officially declared false in 1961.
👉🏻 The most famous sculpture on the Charles Bridge in Prague. Hundrets of people touch relief under his sculpture hoping, that their wishes will come true.
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23/05/2023

🏛️ Former City Hall of Castle Town in Prague ⚖️
👉🏻 The Town Hall was built in 1598 when the Castle Town in Prague was promoted to royal city. The town hall was rebuilt for residential purpose in 1784. The house has nice Renaissance sgrarito facsde until today. On the facade you can see imperial coat of arms, alegory of justice and coat of arms of Castle Town.
📸 On the door you can find “Prague Elbow”. The elbow standard was placed on buildings near marketplaces or squares so that merchants (usually cloth sellers) would not argue when negotiating trades. The elbow standard was placed on the buildings either in the form of a metal rod or was engraved in the stone of the building. The elbow is less than 60 cm (about 23 inches), but it is not a clear-cut measure, because there were several types of elbow – Prague, Czech, Moravian, Viennese…
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21/05/2023

🏛️ Antoní Dvořák Museum in Prague 🇨🇿
🎻 Since its foundation in 1932, the Antonín Dvořák Museum has resided at the Baroque villa “America” in Prague’s New Town. The house, surrounded by a beautiful garden featuring statues from the workshop of Matyáš Bernard Braun, was built at the beginning of the 18th century by Count Jan Václav Michna of Vacínov according to the design of the distinguished Czech architect Kilián Ignác Diezenhofer. (National Museum web page)
🎼 Antonín Dvořák was one of our most famous composers and musicians in 19 century, who became to be famous even during his life. He succeded in Prague, Europe and even in the USA.
👉🏻These are some his masterpieces:
🎵 Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, B9 "The Bells of Zlonice
🎶 Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95, B178 "From the New World
🎵 Rusalka, B. 203 (1900)
🎶Armida, B. 206 (1902-1903)

16/05/2023

Other pictures from my trip to Bastai Bridge and Bad Schandau in Germany 🇩🇪⛰️🍻

16/05/2023

🏛️🚂Prague Main Railway Station
👉🏻 It is the lagest Art Nouveau building in Prague and the lagest rail way station in the Czech Republic. The historic building and the hall above the railway yard are among the most significant Art Nouveau monuments in the Czech Republic. A plethora of shops and food establishments will make waiting for your connection more pleasant. Occasional themed exhibitions are held in the check-in hall.
🛤️ Original Neo-Renaissance building was rebuilt by architect Josef Fanta between 1901 and 1909, who won the the competition with a project that envisioned the entrance hall based on the principles of Art Nouveau style as a semicircular central pavilion with cash desks and entrances to the platform (today the space serves as a café). The entrance façade from the street comprises a large window in the shape of an arch. From the central section, two wings end with three-story buildings. The complex was enhanced with four towers: two that complete the edges of the central vestibule with peaks formed by glass globes. The other two adorn the wing buildings, each with a clock, and the south tower also features the symbol of the railways - a winged wheel.

13/05/2023

Pictures from our 6 hours Grand Royal Route Tour in Prague on May 13 -> Prague Walker Company

02/05/2023

🇨🇿 Stained-glass Window designed by Mucha at St. Vitus Cathedral, Prague (Early 1930s)
👉🏻 The window portrays the boy St. Wenceslas with his grandmother St. Ludmila in the centre, surrounded by episodes from the lives of Saints Cyril and Methodius who spread Christianity among the Slavs. The image of Slavia is also included below Christ, and as an emblem of Slavia Bank who funded the stained glass window.
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26/04/2023

✌️☮️🇨🇿 John Lennon Wall in Prague (Lesser Town)
👉🏻 A wall covered with paintings of John Lennon, Beatles’ song lyrics and peace signs. It became to be a peaceful place where Czechs expressed their defiance against communism. In 1980, when someone brought here a symbolic Lennon’s grave stone, people started to paint his face here and write Beatles lyrics. John Lennon has never visited Prague. It was imposible during communism. Anyhow local anti-communists considered him and Beatles as a symbol of freedom and western world.
People can write here their political opinions or poems until today with markers.
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24/04/2023

🇨🇿 A Full-Day Tour in Prague with personal driver!
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17/04/2023

🇨🇿 Czech President - general Petr Pavel - abolished the security controles and the metal decetors at Prague Castle 🏰! I has been uninstalled after a security analyse made by Czech police. It is going to make your sightseeing in Prague more comfortable. 👏🙌🏻

13/04/2023

National Museum of Agriculture in Prague
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