Nietzsche said: When I wanted to use another word to express music, I only found Vienna; and when I wanted to use another word to express mystery, I only thought of Prague.

As a famous historical city in Europe, Prague is also a famous tourist city. The city has numerous buildings of various historical periods and styles, from Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo, Neoclassicism, Art Nouveau to Cubism and ultra-modernism. Baroque and Gothic architecture are particularly dominant.

The overall impression of Prague's architecture is that the tops of the buildings are particularly varied and the colors are extremely eye-catching (red tiles and yellow walls). Therefore, it has been known as the "City of a Thousand Towers" and the "Golden City". Known as one of the most beautiful cities in Europe. It is also the first city in the world to have an entire city designated as a World Cultural Heritage.

At that time, Prague was also a multi-ethnic city with multiculturalism as its distinctive feature. It was also one of the cultural centers in Europe, with a rich cultural and artistic atmosphere, hundreds of concert halls, Galleries, cinemas and music clubs,

He is mysterious, ancient and full of charm, although he is not a frequent guest in film and television dramas like Paris and London.

However, in history, there have been many outstanding figures in music, literature and many other fields who are inextricably linked to Prague.

Nietzsche considered it a representative of mystery, Goethe said it was the most beautiful city in Europe, Kafka was born and created here, and Milan Kundera used it as the background to write "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" 》, if we list the famous people related to it one by one, I'm afraid the number is enough to write a book.

Kafka

There is such a person who is destined to be inseparable from Prague. He is Kafka. There is a saying "Kafka is Prague, and Prague is Kafka." Kafka is a famous Czech novelist. His "The Castle" and "The Metamorphosis" have influenced the world.

Kafka was born into a Jewish businessman family in 1883. He entered Prague University to study literature and law at the age of 18. He began writing in 1904. His main works are four collections of short stories and three novels. Unfortunately, most of them were not published during his lifetime, and none of the three novels were completed. He lived in an era when the Austro-Hungarian Empire was about to collapse, and was deeply influenced by the philosophies of Nietzsche and Bergson. He also always had a bystander attitude towards political events. Therefore, most of his works used deformed and absurd images and symbolic intuition to express hostile people. Isolated, desperate individuals surrounded by social environments.

Kafka, together with the French writer Marcel Proust and the Irish writer James Joyce, are known as the pioneers and masters of Western modernist literature.

Jan Hus

Jan Hus is a famous Czech thinker and philosopher. He is famous for his dedication to church reform and Czech nationalism and his martyrdom.

Jan Hus was not only a hero of the national movement, but also the president of Charles University. As one of the oldest and best universities in European history, it has cultivated many outstanding figures. Milan Kundera, the author of "Unbearable the Lightness of Being", is one of the talents trained by Charles University.

Smetana

Smetana, known as the "Father of Czech Music", is internationally renowned for his symphonic poem "My Motherland", in which "Volume" "Altava River" is the most moving section in the entire symphonic suite.

About music

Speaking of Prague, you may think of the song "Prague Square" sung by Jolin Tsai.

"I stood in the square in Prague at dusk, casting my hope in the wishing fountain. The group of white doves turned their backs to the setting sun. The picture was so beautiful that I dared not look at it..."

The musical genius Mozart loved the small city of Prague so much that he once performed operas such as "Symphony No. 38 in D Major", "Figaro" and "Prague Symphony" here.

This is a mysterious city, especially when you set foot in Prague, shuttle through the intricate stone alleys in the city center, and follow the somewhat confusing house numbers to find your destination. When you see the next door When the seemingly abandoned church with a Gothic spire on the top and mottled ivy on the walls; when the setting sun slid down the mountainside in the blink of an eye, and a layer of dark and cold mist immediately drifted around...

If you have never set foot in Prague, then you will be obsessed with it; if you have witnessed its splendor, then you will not be able to stop missing it, and even want to embark on a journey to see it again. Just like falling in love, you fall in love with a stunningly beautiful woman who is within your reach but also out of reach.

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