More Old Town

Next day we picked up on the Rick Steves "Prague Walk" again, this time getting as far as Old Town Square (again), about 500m. At this rate it will take us 3 days to do the 3 hour walk. (It did).

Starting at the Municipal House...just of few teaser pix of the
porch

We'll be back in a few days for the tour

Across the street, the Hibernia Theater, where
we saw a Carmen in 2010

Standing in front of the Powder Tower, from left to right...art deco,
Gothic, neo-Classical/Art Nouveau...

Cubist architecture in Old Town...so it said; the House of the
Black Madonna

In case you've ever wondered what a Cubist restaurant might look
like...of course you have!

Or a Cubist cafe

Cubist font, she says

Sic transit, Gloria...a surpassingly glorious building
housing a massage parlor...OK, it's a Thai massage parlor...

On Old Town Square, the Hussite church (read on)

Looking into the Tyn church, the Catholic church...over-the-top
Baroque in a Gothic structure...closed this Sunday but we'll be
back

Panning around the great square

Another 700 year sweep

The Jan Hus monument, center stage in Old Town Square; Hus
was a church critic and reformer of note, influencing Luther and
antedating him by a century, translating the Bible, advancing
feminism and other causes; he was burned at the stake in 1415
by duplicitous Church authorities; his movement then became a
national cause, with many battles against Catholic forces; the Church
eventually recognized the Hussite church and state later in the 15th
century; but it was all eclipsed when the Hapsburgs took over in
17th; then the Germans, then the Russians; Pope John Paul II
apologized in 1999 for the Church's murder of Hus; long, sad,
fruitless story...

Moving right along, today's tourist train

Wider view of part of the square, Hus monument, and the (now)
Catholic Church of Tyn

Ever more interesting buildings

50 meters down Dlouha St. from our building

Digitally-enhanced (-dehanced?)