Monday, February 21, 2011

Pictures From Prague


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St. Wenceslaus statue in Prague.
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A random building covered in sculptures of people.
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Prague’s famous astronomical clock.
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The Tyn Church (possibly cathedral) in the Old Town square.  It started as a Catholic church, converted into a Hussite church, and then returned to being Catholic. 
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A statue of Jan Hus, the starter of the Hussite heretical movement.  He started this movement before the protestant reformation, but ultimately it was very similar thing.
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Statue of Mary behind the Tyn.
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A Crucifix sculpture on the Charles Bridge in Prague.
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Mary and I on the bridge, I look pretty strange without a beard. 
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My traveling buddies at lunch in a Subway.  Fortunately none of us are opposed to eating fast food in foreign countries, it saves a lot of money.
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We climbed a giant staircase up to the Prague Castle.
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Before going into the castle we looked around and took pictures of the city.  We had a pretty good view of everything, which makes sense considering that castles were built on hills in order to give a good view of the cities that they were built to protect.
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Some more of the city. 
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Apparently Prague has a replica of the Eiffel Tower.
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Marriana, Mary, and I on top of the big hill where the last four pictures were taken.
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St. Vitus Cathedral inside of Prague’s castle.  We didn’t actually get to see much of the castle, really just the church and the view of the city. 
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Stained glass in St. Vitus.  It was all pretty incredible.
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The John Lennon wall in Prague.  Basically was a wall dedicated to Lenin (not John), but because of a mutual dislike of him, people started graffiti-ing John Lennon lyrics on the wall.  Since then it has become common practice.
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Mary and I stuck on a spider-web in a local park where we decided to kill some time before Mass.
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I took some pictures while we were going to the bus from dinner.
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Most of them ended up being a bit blurry, but still still worth posting I thought.  Prague is very well lit and nice looking at night.
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The Tyn at night. 

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