One of the events that one of our teachers told us about while we were in Prague was Noc Kostelu, Night of Churches. On this night many churches throughout the city are open for free. Usually the churches cost money to go into and look around. So Noc Kostelu is a great way to get [...]
Tag: things to do in Prague
Faust House
While being shown around by our teacher we walked past Faust House. The Faust House, while it probably never housed Doctor Faust, was home to many eccentric people. It was originally a mansion owned by Prince Vaclav of Opava who was obsessed with alchemy and natural sciences. It was then passed on to an astronomer and [...]
Franz Kafka Walking Tour
After our trip to the Franz Kafka Museum we went to meet our tour guide for our walking tour, who wasn't affiliated with the museum, she worked with the non-for-profit Franz Kafka society. We started off being shown the library. The Franz Kafka society in 2002 had a replica made of Franz Kafka's library. They [...]
Love Lock Bridge
There is a bridge near the Lennon wall covered to the brim with locks. Lovers write their initials on the locks and throw the keys into the river. There is also a small romantic restaurant nearby. These love lock, or padlock love bridges can be found all over the world. I had never seen one [...]
Lennon Wall
The Lennon wall since 1980 has been filled with graffiti. Mostly messages of peace or lyrics from beetles songs or art. People from all over the word come by and write (graffiti) on the wall. When we went one of my classmates had written on it and it was already covered. The Lennon Wall [...]
Ss Cyril and Methodius Church
Ss Cyril and Methodius Church is a baroque church in Prague that one of our teachers took us to. The church was a hiding spot for Czech parachutists during world war two after the assassination of Moravia Reinhard Heydrich, a high ranking German Nazi. They were betrayed, found and it turned into a gun fight in [...]
Communist Museum
One of my teachers took our class, a very small class of four, to Prague's Communist Museum. The Communist Museum is located between a McDonalds and a casino. It isn't an expensive museum includes a replica of an interrogation room, items from classrooms, uniforms, statues, art, and what life was like. It starts with the [...]
Franz Kafka Museum
One of the things we did in Prague as a group was have do a lot of things related to Franz Kafka. Franz Kafka was a novelist we studied while we were in Prague and whom we were all familiar with from earlier in our studies. One of the first things we did for our [...]
The Astronomical Clock
The Astronomical Clock in Praha 1 is the worlds oldest working clocks. It is over 600 years old. The clock uses an astrolabe which predicts and locates the the sun, moon and stars and determines the time. There is a a golden sun that tells the time and a moon that tells the lunar phase. [...]
Prašná Brána: The Powder Tower
Prašná Brána or the Powder Tower is an important medieval monument in Prague near Old Town. It was built in 1475 by Matouš Rejsek. In the 17th/18th century it was used to hold gunpowder, which is where it name comes from. It is 65 meters/ 213 feet tall. The tower was an important gate that the [...]