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Tour - 6: Mala Strana - The small side.

Mala Strana means "short side". Czechs pronounce these words with a kind of selfish pleasure and delicious accent redolent of nostalgia Slavic (not bad my sentence !!!). Upon contacting the "R " and emphasizing the "A .

This district was founded in the 13th century after a great fire in 1541 but especially after the Battle of White Mountain (1620) the foreign nobility "Catholic" it is installed. Czech people already undergoing a domination.

And it will not last. Remember that the word "slave " would have appeared in the High Middle Ages to Venice, where most slaves were Slavs Balkan region called Slavonia and Eastern Slavonia. Must enter the MRAP !!!!! N e if only out of duty of memory.


visits all the cities go partaiquement station Namesti Malostranska on Malostrenské: instead of the short side with beautiful pastel facades. A small point

language: Have you noticed how the Czech turns words?
- Mala Strana - Malostranska - Malostranské Namesti, and again! I can not read everything, seen everything, drinking.

you from all the intricacies of the language, as we explained our guide, the Czech language is very difficult to learn. That's why, according to our guide, Aborigines have so many facilities for learning other foreign languages. I do not mind but they could explain why the language of Molière is so little spoken of ordinary people there!!

I even saw, I swear! the porter of our hotel, a stylish Maghreb strive to answer us in English when he spoke in the language of "ancestors". When he realized we were not fooled by it bounced back. Let's not exaggerate! anyway!

short! Here we are in the small side where, as everywhere in Prague Medieval and Renaissance towers are guarded by soldiers in period costume and respond to your hello beating their fists on their armor breastplate of operetta. Ceremonial!!

Here is the museum located in the church of Saint Nicolas, a masterpiece of Baroque art. I humbly assure you that seeing a large number of baroque buildings in both Austria and Bavaria can assure you that this art there is no sugar or marshmallow ice like so many domestic visited: Church of Wies example, yet I loved these buildings.


Here is the tough, the preppy, the monumental !!!!!!!! But let us first place St Nicolas, Svaty Mikulas namesti for short, dominated by the majestic presidential palace and St. Vitus Cathedral.



should this building Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer as the principal architect of the project from 1737 to 1751. If the facade of relative sobriety, the interior is breathtaking. appointments account for yourself.


The altar subjugates you!

flesh makes you want to travel on his pink cloud.


I let you admire the separation of St. John the Baptist. One of the main decorations.


As the baptism of Christ.


The fresco of the cupola is a measure of the work. The Apotheosis of St Nicholas by Jan L Kracker " erases the boundaries of architecture and painting " (guide Mondeo). It gives you vertigo.


The Baroque organ pipes on the 2500 which the divine WAM have played in 1787. Wonderful!


A view of the grandstands gives you the size of the building.


We continue the visit of the Lesser Town. Passage through Parliament. Sigh!


borrow And the nice quiet alley Letenská bright colors.


Porches highly personalized: may be the local house of Nimrod.



In welcoming porches where the "pivo" flows.


For refined luxury hotels. Here "the three storks. Frequented by the Elect Nation.


Normal! Between parliament and the senate and in the presidential palace !!!!!

Valdstenjnské Place, the Senate stands on parking "moved". We would prefer to see a small city garden. Damage. but it will be.

is the Wallenstein Palace. Waldenstein for the Germans, named Albrecht. This condottiere Czech Absbourg enemy and devoured by ambition to built this palace with confiscated property of Protestants after the battle of White Mountain. Having compromised in a conspiracy against the emperor, he was assassinated in 1634.


No visit to the palace provided (injury).

We cross one of courses to visit the garden italinne decorated with copies of Greek statues in bronze signed Adriaen de Vries


and stolen by the Swedes in 1648.


I loved the Sala Terrana and frescoes depicting the Trojan War.


We recognize (oui-oui!!) Ulysses in period costume. Larger and look better.


and Pallas and Aeneas. They at least you see them!!

least I liked the rock wall that appear human heads and animals hideous.
Just why a little imagination (and a good zoom).


Paradise pigeons (who speak Czech) district. But each his own.

I enjoyed the quiet pool at the indoor arena.
Now I like to have finished this post. Sorry for its length.

The next visit will be for the neighborhood of the presidential palace. A odyssé.

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tour of Prague - 5: Back in Mala Strana - and the Vltava Kampa Island and the area of the bridge.

This morning we pass under the old west gate of the Charles Bridge (Karluv Most) via the alley in the name so sympathetic: Mostek Ulice. Street Bridge.

We will visit the left bank of the Vltava so steeped in history. And more specifically the poetic Kampa Island and the area of the bridge.

Once on the parapet we turn our gaze to the left. A feeling of small town before our eyes. The Certovka Channel or the devil indeed gives the impression of being in one of our small provincial towns. This channel makes a reach, is so named because a very cantankerous woman lived there once.

In advancing a few meters, we have a beautiful view over the river downstream.

Opposite the - Mánesův most - Manes bridge 186 meters long and 16 meters wide.
Right, the Museum of Decorative Arts and on the square Rudelphinum Jan Palach, the name of the student who set himself on fire on Wenceslas Square in 1969 to protest against the Soviet occupation.

Left, taverns and the extreme left the museum Franz Kafka.

Returning for a moment at the entrance of the bridge and lowering our gaze on the right. The Devil's quiet channel was used to operate the mill Stepanovsky.

Very romantic! And again! you have not seen the reverse.

Then we overlook one of the places that serve on many films (here for a remake of Ben-Hur) and is home to several embassies, including that of Japan and Estonia.

What more step and the left bank (upstream) makes us want to bucolic walks.

Now we will discuss the Kampa island from the south at the height of a lock. Off Charles Bridge. What serenity this morning! Few tourists who prefer the narrow and crowded old city.

Vrbta We crossed the garden which I have no picture. Front of the Museum of Modern Art, we fall off before three weird sculptures. The faces of toddlers have an empty slot, as if someone had pressed a book in the center. You know what I mean?


But no! I speak of that which is in second place. You have ideas rather misplaced!


On deck I was talking about the romance of the place. This character has not been lost on some, especially lovers.


Who come to seal their love to the gates of the mill. Or rather padlocked. Have you found yours?


A view upstream from reach. Zen! We leave the island of Kampa and join the old quarter of the bridge.

Now we plunge into the cobbled streets (good intentions) of the island. Grand Priory Square (Namesti Velkoprevorské). Sub communism, whose garden wall was a long time with the portrait of John Lesson and adorned with graffiti.

Each wore a new cleaning was applied again. It is now a kind of a cult. On this picture we find a large portrait of John. Have you found?

Lenon Lenin Vs. Well found! Who do we talk the longest?

Opposite, the Embassy of France. Superb and BCBG. Normal!


And one of its two monumental gates (not primary)! Sumptuous!


In front, slightly offset, the Embassy of the Order of Malta, also with a majestic gate. Behind the building there is a similar one.

Can we borrow plots "villages" with colorful facades. By the Estonian embassy and its beautiful fanlight
isatis.


in Prague and may be elsewhere, the houses were not numbered. Also, the decorations of the facade that served as an address.

Heu eueu eueu eueu !! Good! I think it bothers! We continue?



Maltéské Namesti Square, (instead of Malta). I think we have seen in "Amadeus" by Milos Foreman's native son.


The Gothic church of Our Lady under the chain attributed to the Knights of Malta. I find that both towers were fortified Romanesque appearance well marked. The portal really gives the old Gothic nave now a pleasant garden and a beautiful baroque style chorus (1640-1660) by an Italian architect Carlo Lurago.


Another view of a sector making a U-turn.
Y Pivo in the air.



On this same spot a beautiful building with its ocher intriguing copper plate and its beautiful doors (I'm the collector).

It seems to recognize LVB far.


Yes! That is Ludwig van B.
Would it not composed his sonata in Wallenstein here? Why not! We have an indication
a little further.

A look at a door in the adjacent street tells us that the composer lived in this house. Click on the image. The transom mentions "palace Beethoven. "Plaque gives even a size info: flat belly with the telephone number to contact. If you can not read I will give it. It is a blow not to be missed.

Another block away is another surprise that stops us. Who knew that Rene had placed her suitcases here? Not me anyway!


Our visit to this part of the district ends. We'll cross the Mostecka ulice to transport us to another place where the senate.