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Visit Prague - 8 - Hradcany - St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague


Yes! What people! Fortunately, we have paid a fee to visit the interior. Those who are waiting patiently with their guide and we'll have a day free time.

We split the crowd, and enter the nave of proportion. The French architect Robert Arras who started the show work in 1344 at the site of a Roman basilica. But he passed the torch to his death in 1353 Petr Parler . Several wars and lack of funds meant that the nave and the two towers were not completed arrows between 1861 and 1929.

I deplore the relative modernity of the windows to be the consequence of multiple events that the country has known.

On the right is a staircase late Gothic (1493) decorated with fronds of thorns leading to the royal box.

It makes me think of the Blois staircase .

We see the transept and the Chapel of St. Wenceslas .
Hey! not force us to stop earlier.

The multitude of windows illuminates perfectly the nave rainy day. And
illuminates the monumental Christ.

The transept.

You see the crowds of tourists tramping through the narthex? Crazy !!!!!!!!


we reach the chorus of the building. Us it is not the kitchen.
There are already behind the altar , the tomb of John of Nepomuk I told you about.
Remember! on the Charles Bridge .


The richly decorated chapels treasure.
which this beautiful triptych.

or restoration imposing.


Here! Everything comes to him!
Here the tomb of John of Nepomuk . Whoever was
rushed into the waves of the Moldau .
"Delirium Baroque money from a Viennese goldsmith " said the guide.
He's right.

Y to see the suspension above it.
I pity the maid in charge of the silverware.
Boudiou !!!!!!!!!


I am more moved by the humble effigies which lie along the aisles.
Especially this one which is smaller, dead and standing.

The royal gallery earlier hidden emerged.
brilliant!


He faces a pompous bier. Definitely a great kingdom.
This one at least has not lost his head.
"Excuse me sir ! Did you see how you're here?"
j'vous swear !!!!! No way to make beautiful pictures in this crowd!
"Get out! Tourist Hey!"

Who will say after seeing that the flesh is weak.

the chapel of St. Wenceslas !! It
Byzantium


Everything here is than gold.



Agates


jasper

chalcedony


The transept overlooking the Golden Gate we see from the outside.



Follow me outside. It's not bad either. Although the stone is a bit dark.
But it will get better. The South Tower
Renaissance Baroque covered bulbs (96 meters)


is still the architect Parler that carries on the south side, the golden door. It is topped by a Venetian mosaic of the Last Judgement (1370)
Please click on the image to get closer.


Finally here is the golden door does not.


To complete the tour of the building, a view of the apse, stone forest.

Good! is not all that! it gave me one of those cravings!


I spotted a nice restaurant on the square Wallenstein.
"For three storks.


I'd go hit me Gulas a pico-
is said in the singular: a Gulas, plural: mouths.
I'm a bit naughty is not it?
I was joking, of course. Should
although I do this one!


is not everything, but now we are satisfied we must go back to see the rest.
Go! Started!!