Santa Vita Cathedral (Katedrala sv. Vita) is the most important landmark of Prague Castle. In addition to its rich architectural features, it is also the place where the Prague Castle royal family was crowned and died. The Vita Basilica has been enlarged three times. In 929 AD, the circular church of St. Wenceslas was enlarged into a rectangular church in 1060 AD. In 1344 AD, Charles IV ordered the construction of the current Gothic building, but it was not officially completed until 1929 AD. Several highlights of the visit to the Vita Cathedral include the 20th-century stained glass windows, the tomb of St. John, and the Church of St. Wenceslas. The old palace Stary Kralovsky Palac was the former residence of the kings of Bohemia, and different parts were restored by successive reigning kings.
The entire palace building is roughly divided into three floors. As soon as you enter the entrance, you will see the tall Vladislav Hall, which is also the center of gravity of the entire palace. The New Territories Room upstairs has many images of early secretaries. The lower floors include the Gothic-style palace of Charles IV and the Roman-style palace hall. Most of the rooms were destroyed in a fire in 1541 AD, so some of them were later rebuilt. The Powder Tower of Prague Castle, Prasna Brana, was built in 1475 and is one of the gates of the Old Town of Prague. The Powder Tower in Prague, like the Powder Tower in Old Town Square, was originally built as a fortress to protect the city. In the 16th century, the king asked magicians to learn alchemy here. In the 17th century, it was used to store gunpowder, so it was called the Powder Tower. In the 18th century it was used to store the sacred relics of the Church of Santa Vita. Now it has become a museum displaying the remains of ancient art, astronomy and alchemy. The building people see now was restored in the late 19th century.
Climb up to the 65-meter-high tower, overlook the city, and experience the style of Prague, the city of one hundred towers. Knight's Square connects the old city and Charles Bridge (Krizovnicke namesti). Knight's Square should be a comprehensive version of pride and grievance. The pride is that no traveler will miss this square when coming to Prague. The grievance is that although everyone comes to Knight's Square, but Few people would think of it as a square. It makes one wonder what it would be like if the statue of Charles IV in the center of the square could still think. Charles IV was the hero who led Prague to become the most prosperous metropolis in the Middle Ages. He ordered the construction of the Charles Bridge and promoted large-scale urban public transportation projects.
Let’s just say that many of the features of the medieval city that Prague is today were built during his reign, but most travelers turn a blind eye to such a statue of a monarch with outstanding achievements and beautiful Prague? The main reason is that Its location and the size of the square itself. Cross the street from the old city to the area around Knights of the Cross, but it is not very large. You can cross the square and step onto the Charles Bridge in less than a minute. In this way, everyone walked through the Cross Knights Square seemingly without thinking. However, this square actually has its unique functions and charm. In fact, the buildings around the square are worth stopping and admiring for tourists. In addition, it is also a good place to meet and be seen by people, and you can also enjoy the scenery of small bridges and ancient castles.
In fact, watching people is also a very interesting experience. There are many tourists coming and going here, of all nationalities. If you take some time to rest in the square, you can enjoy the freedom and vivid scenery. Furthermore, just enjoy the scenery. The scenery you can see from the riverside of the square is actually quite special, especially the castle and bridge are still in the dim morning light. When you leave Prague, you must leave a photo of you and Prague. I believe that the image of standing on Knights of the Cross with the Castle River Bridge in the background will become a classic memory.
The Old Town Square of St. Nicholas Cathedral was the center of activity for Prague citizens after the 13th century. The paved Roman straits were packed with densely populated residential houses. During this period, apart from the elevation of houses and roads in this area due to flooding, the landscape here has remained almost unchanged since the Middle Ages, and there is a statue in the center of the square commemorating the 500th anniversary of Hus's death.
On the surrounding walls, there are many works by masters of decorative arts, showing Prague's experience in different periods. Just stopping nearby is quite enjoyable.
St. Nicholas Church, located on the northwest side of Old Town Square, was built in the 18th century with white walls and a bronze spire. Before the Tyne Church was built between the 12th and 14th centuries, it was the main church gathering place in the old town. After the changes of the times, during the First World War, the army was stationed here, and artists who had not been on the battlefield were commissioned to rebuild the church. The solemn dome murals were all works of this period, and concerts were often held. The Old Town Hall is a palace-style building that was indeed the royal palace here in the 14th and 15th centuries.
After the king moved to Prague Castle at the end of the 15th century, the City Hall was abandoned for hundreds of years until the park was converted into a cultural center in 1911, becoming an important cultural venue in Prague. The Town Hall is also the best example of Prague’s alphabet art architecture, and the mosaic mural just above the door is named in tribute to Prague. The Smyrna Hall inside is the center of the entire city hall and is also the venue for Prague music performances and important banquets. The city of Kutna Hora is located in central Bohemia and was the regional center of West Slavic immigrants in the tenth century. Due to its topography sloping from southeast to northwest, the main buildings of the historic city center are concentrated on the edge of the Vrcchlice Valley in Hellis, Ukraine, 76 kilometers east of Prague.
This is a small town with only 22,000 people. At the beginning of the 13th century AD, the town was founded because of the discovery of silver mines in Kutna Mountain. The entire town grew with the development of the silver mining industry. Many outstanding buildings symbolizing the prosperity of the city made it an imperial capital in the 14th century AD. The Church of St. Barbara in Santa Barbara is a shining pearl that represents the late Gothic architectural style, while the Cathedral of Our Lady in Leyssedeleck retains the early 18th-century Baroque style, which influenced the architectural style of Central Europe. These masterpieces, together with priceless mansions, monasteries and churches, form part of the medieval urban architecture of this ancient city. In 1999, UNESCO listed this beautiful town in Central Europe as a World Cultural Heritage.
Although this area has been inhabited since the Neolithic Age, there were miners' tents before urbanization. Among the ruins you can also find a 10th-century mint, a 12th-century Cistercian monastery, and numerous chapels. During the reign of Vladislav II, the area became a prosperous and busy industrial area; however, Kutná Hera's ultimate plan was to become a large city in the region. A new mint was built in 1330 AD and monetary reforms were introduced in the area. After the currency reform, the Prague government of Bohemia (Grossen Groschen) minted silver coins here.
As an important royal mining town, the output of silver mines reached its peak in the 14th century AD, and six tons of silver could be excavated every year. This enhanced the status of Kutra Hora and became the Bohemian city second only to Prague. Asia's second most important city. In the 15th century AD, as population density increased, local silver mines became famous in Europe. Due to the strong fortifications, this place naturally became the royal palace outside Prague, and the city reached unprecedented prosperity.
Hora in Kutla became a prosperous area with prosperous industry and commerce. Although the Seydrec Monastery was destroyed by fire during the Hussite Wars of 1419-1434, it was quickly rebuilt, creating a gorgeous artistic legacy in the late Gothic style for the city. After 1504 AD, the mineral resources were exhausted and the city gradually lost its importance. The foundry closed in 1726 AD.
After the 19th century AD, it became the center of various administrative functions in central Bohemia, which gave Kutra Hora a new impetus for development. Craftsmen's silver coins were used to create the southwest facade of the castle (the church of Santa Barbara (Saint Barbara is the patron saint of miners)), an architectural masterpiece of Kutra Hora. It was built in 1380 AD but was not completed until the 16th century. The church has huge mesh ribs and decorated rose windows. The 27 decorative spiers on both sides of the church stand on the flying buttress walls, which is a unique Bohemian Gothic design.
Balpolska in front of the church. Barborska Street is a straight downhill road. On the left is a Jesuit monastery, and on the right is a wall of stone statues of saints, embedded in a 30-meter-high ridge. superior.
Looking to the right, you can see the Church of St. James (Italian Courtyard). After entering the Italian courtyard, I saw green everywhere. There is a small fountain in the atrium, in the center of which stands a statue of a mining worker. Because Italian craftsmen were the most outstanding in the 14th century AD, the mint invited many Italian masters to give the atrium such a name. In addition to collecting silver coins from different dynasties, a coin craftsman dressed in medieval costumes also performed the skills of making silver coins live and gave everyone a small silver coin as a souvenir. The decoration of Guren Concert Hall comes from Guren, which is located in the northeastern suburbs of the city. There is a strange one (Sedlec Ossuary, Guren Church).
This house, known as the Ossuary, houses thousands of medieval victims of the Black Death from Bohemia, Poland, Bavaria and even Belgium. As wars continued, the number of cemeteries increased one after another until some cemeteries were abolished after the Hussite Wars. From AD 1511 to AD 1661, the priests of the church collected the bones in the church crypt. In 1870 AD, F. lint, a lumberjack hired by the Schwarzenberg family in Schwarzenberg, thoroughly sterilized the 40,000 bones excavated here and began to arrange the human bones into various Patterns, including chandeliers, crosses, lintels, include the family crest and Lint's own signature.
All the decorations of the church are derived from human bones, which were then renovated with Baroque architecture by S. aich's designers to present their current condition. Mill Hot Spring Corridor Mlynska Kolonada, known as the most beautiful hot spring cloister, was built in 1881 and designed by the famous Czech architect Josef Zitek. The National Theater in Prague is also his classic design. It took 10 years to build the mill's thermal cloister.
The original design was for a two-story cloister, but plans were changed due to lack of budget. Finally, the new Renaissance design was finalized, consisting of a nave, side aisles and 124 columns. There are 12 classical statues on the column, representing the 12 months, designed by the sculptors Wilfert and Schreiber. The hot spring cloister is named after the original mill nearby and contains five hot springs in total. On the marble panel on the wall is a Latin poem written by a frequent guest of Karlovifari, with a Czech translation next to it. There is also a small concert every afternoon in this monastery.