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PRAGUE
Prague. Praha. The name actually meant “threshold. Pollina had said the city was a portal between the life of the good and … the other. A city of dark magic, Alessandro had called it.
Magnus Flyte
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The streets of Prague were a fantasia scarcely touched by the twenty-first century—or the twentieth or nineteenth, for that matter. It was a city of alchemists and dreamers, its medieval cobbles once trod by golems, mystics, invading armies. Tall houses glowed goldenrod and carmine and eggshell blue, embellished with Rococo plasterwork and capped in roofs of uniform red. Baroque cupolas were the soft green of antique copper, and Gothic steeples stood ready to impale fallen angels. The wind carried the memory of magic, revolution, violins, and the cobbled lanes meandered like creeks. Thugs wore Motzart wigs and pushed chamber music on street corners, and marionettes hung in windows, making the whole city seem like a theater with unseen puppeteers crouched behind velvet.
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Laini Taylor Daughter of Smoke & Bone
HISTORY Prague panorama in 1650
World War I ended with the creation of Czechoslovakia. Prague was chosen as its capital and Prague Castle as the seat of president Tomáš Masaryk. In 1993, after the split of Czechoslovakia, Prague became the capital city of the new Czech Republic. From 1995 high rise buildings began to be built in Prague in large quantities. In the late 1990s Prague again became an important cultural centre of Europe.
PRAGUE 2015
• the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic .
• the 15th largest city in the European Union.
• Prague is the fifth most visited European city after London, Paris, Istanbul and Rome.
The ancient splendor and beauty of Prague, a city beyond compare, left an impression on my imagination that will never fade.
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” Richard Wagner
ARCHITECTURE (the world's most pristine and varied collections of architecture)
GOTHIC
ROMANESQUE
The Renaissance
ROCCO
NEO-RENAISSANCE
NEO-CLASSICAL
ULTRA-MODERN
Prague is the Paris of the ’90s.
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” Marion Ross
FESTIVALS
Prague Opera, Ballet & Classical Concert
Prague isn’t just a city, but an entity of some kind
” ” Sezin
Koehler
If European cities were a necklace, Prague would be a diamond among the pearls.
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