Prague's Municipal House

Prague's Municipal House is a major civic, cultural and historic landmark. It opened in 1912 amidst nationalistic fervor. In 1918, its Smetana Concert Hall was the site of the proclamation of the new Czechoslovakia. For anyone interested in Art Nouveau, I suppose, it is Mecca. Vicki and I did our own little tour in 2010, peering in through windows and doors, gawking at the beauty, but not really understanding what we were looking at. This time, however, we took the English tour, which was marvelous. The tour goes from the Smetana Concert Hall, through several ladies' lounges, another small concert hall, then into several formal rooms, the Mayor's Hall, featuring much Mucha, another concert hall, and then ends in the several opulent restaurants on the ground floor and in the basement. I will post some photos here in two posts, but leave them without comment, at least for the present. The objects of beauty sort of speak for themselves.