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.
