tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49504742102869112972024-03-18T22:00:17.154-07:00Footloose with DianaDianahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10828934507373117828noreply@blogger.comBlogger1093125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950474210286911297.post-52261403701991577572016-09-19T19:57:00.000-07:002016-09-28T18:25:35.490-07:00Jewels of Bohemia - September 2015<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
My crack traveling companion Kit and I headed out with Overseas Adventure Travel in September 2015 to see what they called "The Jewels of Bohemia." You are invited along for the ride - just remember to keep clicking "Older posts" at the bottom of each page to keep going in order. If you want to see any photograph enlarged, just click on it. And here's an image of the route of the main trip:<br />
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We decided to take the pre-trip to Berlin and Dresden, as I'd seen neither of those places (heck, I haven't been to Germany at all since I was about 7!). We were very conveniently situated near the Kurfürstendamm in Charlottenberg, and having a bit of daylight left when we arrived, we set off to see Schloss Charlottenberg, which is under a bit of restoration, but not enough to dampen the mood. It was heavily damaged in World War II and much of the restoration is being done with parts brought from another, destroyed, palace.<br />
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Gardens are in the rear, very formal, and impossible to get an idea of from ground level:<br />
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Dianahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10828934507373117828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950474210286911297.post-22725273025096271322016-09-19T19:56:00.000-07:002016-09-24T00:05:49.332-07:00Berlin<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Near our hotel was the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche (Memorial Church), bombed and never rebuilt after World War II, but left a memorial which can be visited (although we did not):<br />
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The subway, part of the U-Bahn system, was started in 1902 and some stations are beautifully decorated, like this tile one:<br />
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Our Deutsche-mark tour of Berlin, covered the former Olympic Stadium, where I was amused to see a street name Jesse Owens Strasse. He was a four-time Olympic gold medalist in the 1936 games and one of two winners whose hand Hitler refused to shake (the other being Pasadenan Mack Robinson, Jackie's older brother, silver medalist in the 200-meter event); of course, they were rather an affront to the idea of Aryan superiority...<br />
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Rathaus Schöneberg, town hall for West Berlin, is best known to Americans as the site where John F. Kennedy gave his 1963 "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech, commemorated with plaques and a replica Liberty Bell:<br />
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Why don't we have mailboxes like this anymore?<br />
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The former 1923 Tempelhof Airport is being re-envisioned as a public park, but some of the iconic buildings are still there and will probably remain:<br />
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Berlin has many beautiful churches, but unfortunately, we tended to see them from the bus windows:<br />
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Then, over to the Spree River and the site of the former Berlin Wall:<br />
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A good deal of artistic effort, much of it gleefully subversive, has gone into decorating the remains of the Berlin Wall:<br />
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Across the road is one of the more anodyne Berlin bears:<br />
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Dianahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10828934507373117828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950474210286911297.post-81825097928924257772016-09-19T19:55:00.000-07:002016-09-24T00:07:35.603-07:00Bröhan-Museum<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
While the rest of our group went to a museum of the Berlin Wall, Kit and I skived off to the Bröhan-Museum, Karl Bröhan’s (1921-2000) furniture and furnishings in the Art Nouveau to Art Deco and functionalism popular from the 1890s to 1939. I promise I have not included all the photos I have taken, but you might want to skip onward if this isn't your thing:<br />
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Another day of sightseeing. First, the Prussian Victory Tower commemorating the victory in the Danish-Prussian War, now in the middle of a traffic circle - it was the location for Barack Obama's speech in Berlin as a US presidential candidate during his visit to Germany on July 24, 2008, a bit controversial as it celebrates German military victories. No one able to tell us who the handsome chap in the statue is:<br />
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On to the Reichstag and Bundestag:<br />
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Memorial to members of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic murdered by the National Socialists:<br />
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The lovely Brandenberg Gate is now crowded on all sides by later buildings, which is really a shame:<br />
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Checkpoint Charlie - well, don't bother. Nothing original left and mostly taken over by street performers.<br />
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Reminders of the Nazi past include the Topography of Terror, an open-air museum built on the site of buildings which during the Nazi regime from 1933 to 1945 were the headquarters of the Gestapo and the SS:<br />
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There is also a dramatic and touching Holocaust memorial, a five-acre site of 2,711 concrete slabs arranged in a grid pattern on a sloping field:<br />
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Dianahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10828934507373117828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950474210286911297.post-75771384246331346662016-09-19T19:53:00.000-07:002016-09-21T09:54:11.494-07:00Pergamom Museum<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
There are a number of museums on Berlin's "Museum Island," but we chose to focus just on the Pergamom Museum, which houses primarily Middle Eastern and Islamic art, including a stunning reproduction of the Ishtar Gate of Babylon:<br />
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The Market Gate of Miletus, a second-century BC gate destroyed by earthquake in the 10th or 11th century AD, was excavated in the early 20th century. Only fragments remained, so there is a lot of new material:<br />
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The Pergamom Altar was excavated from the Pergamom acropolis (modern-day Turkey) between 1878 and 1986 and reassembled in the museum:<br />
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The Mshatta Facade is the decorated part of the facade of the 8th-century Umayyad residential palace of Qasr Mshatta, one of the Desert Castles of Jordan; it's about 33 meters long:<br />
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Plenty of other delicious stuff, too, including Assyrian reliefs and some beautiful stonework:<br />
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Dianahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10828934507373117828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950474210286911297.post-62188362343711082852016-09-19T19:52:00.001-07:002016-09-21T09:54:29.692-07:00Wittenberg<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
On the way to Dresden, through lovely countryside, we stopped in Wittenberg, where a university established in 1502 attracted such thinkers as Martin Luther. Here's the door of the church to which he supposedly nailed his 95 theses against the selling of indulgences by the church, marking the beginning of the Protestant Reformation. Honestly, the door looks a little new to me for that, but still...<br />
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The church's dramatic tower:<br />
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The University itself is rather unprepossessing from the street:<br />
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Martin Luther's home is a bit more impressive:<br />
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Mrs. Luther, Katharina von Bora, raised in cloisters and monasteries, with which she became disenchanted. Escaping with several others, with Luther's help. He eventually found homes, marriages, or employment for all but Katharina, whom he married.<br />
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I'm more interested in architecture and Wittemberg was a feast for that:<br />
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Statue of Philippe Melanchton, a 16th-century reformer and collaborator of Martin Luther's:<br />
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The architectural details are very rich:<br />
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The Yanks and Russians met in Torgau to mop up after the Nazi rout - there's nothing really to see of this today, as even the bridge there was blown up by the Nazis -<br />
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- but it's a really charming town with a dramatic castle and wonderful old streets to wander:<br />
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...seriously old castle, Schloss Hartenfels:<br />
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The charming town of Torgau, beyond Schloss Hartenfels:<br />
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Dianahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10828934507373117828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950474210286911297.post-64770800081727313982016-09-19T19:50:00.000-07:002016-09-24T00:17:10.691-07:00Onward to Dresden!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Our fourth day out found us headed to Dresden, a cultural, educational, political, and economic cent of Germany, but one practically destroyed by three days of intensive Allied bombing in World War II, which unleashed a firestorm that destroyed the city center and killed upwards of 25,000 people. Much of what we saw, then, was the result of extensive reconstruction or rebuilding in the pre-war style of the destroyed areas.<br />
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The Frauenkirche, restoration only completed in 2005:<br />
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The Dresden Palace and Zwinger Palace were built around 1709 by King Augustus III on the old stronghold of the city and were converted to house the royal art collections and provide space for festivals. Its gate, topped by a golden crown, is famous.<br />
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Semperoper, the opera house:<br />
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Dresden Cathedral, built by Augustus III when he converted to Catholicism so he could be King of Poland</div>
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The procession of Saxon princes of Dresden along a side street - painted between 1871 and 1876 to celebrate the 800th anniversary of the Wettin Dynasty, Saxony's ruling family. In order to make the work weatherproof, it was replaced with approximately 23,000 Meissen porcelain tiles between 1904 and 1907. At 102 meters (335 ft), it is the largest porcelain artwork in the world:<br />
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The delicate spire of the Cholera Fountain, built in the mid-1840s to celebrate the sparing of the city from a cholera epidemic that ravaged the area in 1841-2.<br />
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Most of you know I've long been passionate about historic preservation, so you can imagine how much I enjoyed a slow drive through neighborhoods full of houses so different from those we have in Pasadena:<br />
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Even the manhole covers are artistic!<br />
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An interesting small business district on the edge of a residential neighborhood:<br />
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Along the Elbe River:<br />
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A famous Dresden milk bar, although they are so burdened with tourists that the staff are all but hostile to visitors, even if you're buying something - still, it's walled and floored with beautifully decorated tile:<br />
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The village of Zubrnice, our first stop on the drive from Dresden to Prague, is an open-air museum of vernacular buildings, some brought from goodly distances to save them from demolition, along with tools, fitments, etc. to show something about how people once lived here. We had a charming 16-year-old guide who bicycles in from 3 kilometers away to show people around.<br />
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Drying racks and drying chimney</div>
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Window sill, with tracks cut to drain any rain that came in into a tank below.<br />
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Old kitchen, where we were served plum pastries and chicory from an original wood-fired tile oven:<br />
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Zubrnice church tower:</div>
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Next stop was an infamous Nazi prison, named for the nearby town, which in turn was named for the Empress Maria Tereza. Converted from a military fort built to repel the Prussians, it held political and ideological prisoners, while the town itself was turned into a model Jewish ghetto tidy enough to fool the Red Cross into thinking it was a model of comfort and civility. The prison was grim and overcrowded, simply a stop for days or weeks on the way to the concentration camps. While many died here from torture, typhoid fever, and suffocation from being packed into airless cells, most were incinerated. The incinerators broke down toward the end, so there is a cemetery for bodies found in a mass grave in front of the prison.<br />
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We stopped for lunch at the tiny hamlet of Horni where two archivists are raising three children in an enormous rambling old place that they are fixing up one room at a time. You can see they have their work cut out for them:</div>
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Hard to know where to even start with Prague because it's such a gorgeous city and so full of amazing architecture, which is always my weakness. So maybe we'll just start where it did in the 9th century, with Prague Castle perched above the Vltava River.<br />
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Garden Pavilion of the American Embassy</div>
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Sgraffito work on the buildings, done by applying layers of very thin plaster of different colors over the surface, then scratching through to reveal the layer(s) below, forming the pattern:<br />
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Guard at the Mattias Gate of Prague Castle</div>
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Work on St. Vitus's Cathedral started in 1344 and took another 600 years to finish. It contains the tomb of "Good King" Wenceslas and a fabulous Alfons Mucha window. There was a wedding starting, too, for extra fun - we didn't see the groom, but there was a groomsman holding the bouguet and the bride being photographed:<br />
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And this is just the rear of the Cathedral!</div>
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The Charles Bridge, built for Charles IV in 1357, is probably the most recognizable symbol of Prague:<br />
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It's lined with statues, many of which are copies - there are lots, so just be grateful I'm only inflicting three on you...<br />
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St. John Nepomuk</div>
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St John de Matha, St. Felix de Valois and the Blessed Ivan</div>
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The Powder Tower is Gothic, separating the Old Town from the New Town. It was one of the original city gates dating back to the 11th century:<br />
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Prague's Astronomical Clock, installed in 1410, is the third oldest and the oldest still working in the world. It's been redecorated, restored and repaired several times:<br />
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Schwartzenberg Palace is a beautiful Renaissance palace from 1567, now belonging to the National Gallery - it has gorgeous black and white sgraffito, which, sadly, is hard to see well in the gloomy conditions we had that day:<br />
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The Rudolfinum is the home of the Czech Philharmonic, a lovely Neo-Renaissance building with a roof balustrade adorned with statues of distinguished Czech, Austrian and German composers and artists. It was the seat of the Czechoslovak parliament.<br />
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As it looks from the Vltava River:<br />
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The Neo-Renaissance Smetana Museum was, unbelievably for something so beautiful, once a waterworks. It's now a memorial to Smetana (1824-84), the father of Czech music.<br />
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Sadly, the 19th-century Moorish-style Spanish Synagogue (so-called because of its Alhambra-style decoration) was not open to visitors because we were there on Rosh Hashana:<br />
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A brief cruise along the Vltava River seemed in order, since so many important buildings can be readily seen from the river, not to mention that the little backwaters are quite peaceful and charming.<br />
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From the River, you can see an enormous metronome which replaced a massive statue of a Stalin statue after the Czech Republic's liberation:</div>
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The Wallenstein Palace and Garden, now home of the Czech Senate, is a Baroque monument to military commander Albrecht von Wallenstein, whose military victories led him to covet the crown of Bohemia, which got him assassinated on the order of Emperor Ferdinand II.<br />
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Secretive birds in the garden</div>
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The sala terranea, a garden pavilion</div>
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Italian fresco under the garden pavilion arches</div>
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This artificial dripstone wall in a secluded part of the garden is one of the more unusual features of the Wallenstein gardens, with its figures of frogs, snakes, monsters, grotesque faces and other creatures.<br />
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Our Church of the Lady Victorious was originally a Lutheran church, built in the early 17th century, but was given to the Carmelites by Catholic authorities who claimed it after the Battle of the White Mountain. Most visitors come to see a wax effigy of the Baby Jesus inside, which has a record of miracle cures and a regular change of costumes to fit the seasons and feast days.<br />
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The oddly-named Church of Our Lady beneath the Chain, the oldest in the Mala Strana, was founded in the 12th century and presented to the Knights of St. John, later known as the Knights of Malta; it originally stood in the center of a heavily fortified monastery. Its name refers to a chain used in the Middle Ages to close the monastery gate.<br />
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Adjacent to it is a building in which Beethoven stayed on a visit in 1796, where he composed several works dedicated to Countess Josephine de Clary who organized several concerts:<br />
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Plague fountains or columns are common in the region, usually erected in thanks for having been spared the plague, which swept through Europe regularly. I don't know anything more about this particular one, with its enigmatic topper:<br />
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Graffiti wall homage to John Lennon:</div>
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Markings on a wall showing levels various floods reached:<br />
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I can't tell you much about a lot of these buildings because fine architecture is so abundant in Prague, but I'll identify them when I can.<br />
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Around the area of our hotel, Le Palais:<br />
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Old Prague railway station </div>
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Prague's deconstructivist "Dancing House," colloquially called "Fred & Ginger," built by Czech architect Vlado Milunić in concert with Frank Gehry, on the site of a building destroyed by U.S. bombing in 1945. It was pretty controversial, rather at odds with Prague's more traditional architecture:</div>
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So many elegant doors everywhere!</div>
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The beautiful Secessionist-era Kavarna Coffee House, opened in 1912, which retains its elegant details</div>
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Dianahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10828934507373117828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950474210286911297.post-56596115401551525022016-09-19T19:36:00.000-07:002016-09-25T12:16:41.112-07:00Prague - A bit more Architecture<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Prague is just lousy with Art Nouveau buildings and details - it's hard to stop photographing!<br />
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Note the fake crows on this balcony</div>
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Storch House, a Medieval house decorated with neo-Renaissance paintings from the 19th century:</div>
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A visit to the National Gallery of Prague was very worthwhile.<br />
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"The Man with the Cane" (1909) by Max Oppenheimer</div>
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"Prague - Charles Bridge' (1934) by Oskar Kolkoschka</div>
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Rene Lalique vase, 1920-24</div>
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"Lady with a Muff" (1916-17) by Gustav Klimt</div>
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"Underground Railway" (1899) by Loir Luigi</div>
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But the thing I most wanted to see in Prague was Alfons Mucha's "Epic of the Slav People," 20 monumental canvases conceived as a monument to the Slav peoples. Although all most people know of Mucha are his sinuous Art Nouveau posters advertising cigarettes and liquor, revived in the 1960s, Mucha spent half his career working on these paintings, the largest of which is 6 x 8 meters. The work was underwritten for 20 years by Charles Richard Crane (1858-1939), a wealthy Chicago-based businessman and philanthropist. The works were given to the city of Prague in 1928 as a gift to the nation, on the 10th anniversary of its independence. Be sure to click each image so you can see a larger version and appreciate the details.<br />
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Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria, who supported Moravian translators making a Slavonic version of the New Testament </div>
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Coronation of Serbian Tsar Štěpán Dušan, who expanded Slavic territories in the 1300s and fought against the Byzantine Empire</div>
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Detail of The Printing of the Bible of Kralice in Ivančice (1914)</div>
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Off from Prague now and our first stop of the day was the Vojna Memorial. It was a former prison built for German prisoners of war, and then converted by the Communists for "re-education" of political dissidents. Working 12 hours a day in the nearby uranium mines cannot have been very healthy, or much use for "re-education."<br />
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wonderful sculpture of escaping prisoner:</div>
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leather miner's "helmet"</div>
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On the way to our next destination, we stopped for a closer look (no, not a smoke) of some hemp fields:<br />
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Onwards to Pisek, a 13th-century town based on gold panning in earlier times. It has a wonderful parish church dating from around 1240 CE:<br />
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There's a wonderful castle and a bridge over the Otava River, where there was some kind of event that necessitated making huge sand sculptures:<br />
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As seems invariable with Czech bridges, there's a statue of St. John Nepomuk, a Bohemian saint drowned in Prague's Vltava River on the order of (not very good) King Wenceslas because he refused to divulge the secrets of his wife's confessions.<br />
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The making of sand sculptures on the banks of the Otava is a tradition started in 2006 .<br />
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Besides all this, Pisek has a lot of charming buildings and squares:<br />
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Dianahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10828934507373117828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950474210286911297.post-64798798915325615802016-09-19T19:30:00.000-07:002016-11-22T11:58:35.705-08:00Český Krumlov - castle<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Dianahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10828934507373117828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950474210286911297.post-65655328372075641402016-09-19T19:29:00.000-07:002016-09-26T19:38:32.938-07:00Český Krumlov<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
While the castle dominates, there's plenty else of charm to see in and around Český Krumlov. We had a brief paddle down the Vltava River while we were there - water levels very low, but a good way to see parts of the town:<br />
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St. Vitus Church</div>
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For an architecture buff like me, there's so much of interest; it's a bit touristy, but still well worth a visit:<br />
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Despite the town making its living from tourism, they aren't above poking a bit of fun, especially at the selfie-loving Japanese tourists. I saw many of them taking photos of this mural without the least sense of irony.<br />
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One day we had lunch out in the countryside, in a lovely compound built between the 14th and 17th centuries. The beams in the storage building date from the 1300s, although the main house is date 1614:<br />
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Dianahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10828934507373117828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950474210286911297.post-65826136134892319172016-09-19T19:28:00.000-07:002016-09-27T16:26:26.078-07:00Vyšší Brod Monastery<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Our next junket out from Český Krumlov was to Vyšší Brod Monastery, founded in 1259 by that Rožmberk family. A victim of benign neglect during the Communist period, they are restoring buildings as they can. The church is wonderful, but the real jewel is a 70,000-volume library, complete uncatalogued, alas, so no one knows what all is there and it's not really accessible to scholars - shelves are packed three-deep and haven't seen a dustcloth for a long time, although a restorer comes in three times a week to dust and repair the volumes in worst shape. If they only fixed the brewery and got it going, they could probably fund all the restoration they need!<br />
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Dianahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10828934507373117828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950474210286911297.post-54884741941478558442016-09-19T19:27:00.000-07:002016-09-27T16:27:19.934-07:00Budvar and Trebon<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
On our departure from Český Krumlov, we stopped in the nearby town of České Budějovice, the real home of Budweiser.<br />
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Notice that on the assembly line below, something has leaked and the floor is awash in suds...<br />
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Our next stop was Třeboň, a 12th-century spa town founded by the Rožmberk family (who clearly got around). They funded the development of a fish-farming system of 6,000 ponds that remain productive today. It's a museum of Renaissance and Baroque architecture.<br />
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The Rožmberk family's symbol, a rose, of course:</div>
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Dianahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10828934507373117828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950474210286911297.post-65731776067383122172016-09-19T19:26:00.000-07:002016-09-26T20:13:03.614-07:00Jindřichův Hradec<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Our next stop was Jindřichův Hradec, another 13th-century town which has a lovely castle (although we did not visit it), and a Gobelin weaving museum where they also do tapestry repairs.<br />
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There's also a converted Jesuit museum here of eccentric exhibits, like a 60-meter long creche with attendant Biblical scenes and many moveable bits, including soldiers on horseback, a drawbridge, a sawmill, blacksmith, geeseherds, etc. Lots of furniture, painting, old advertising signage, etc.<br />
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