The Charles Bridge

The settlement of the area of today's Prague had been situated on both banks of the Vltava since early times, and thus the connection between the two parts was very important. Who is represented by a statue of a saint where you can find the text in the photograph. The construction of the bridge started in 1357 under the auspices of King Charles IV and finished at the beginning of the 15th century. The bridge replaced the old Judith Bridge built 1158–1172 that had been badly damaged by a flood in 1342. This new bridge was originally called Stone Bridge but it has been "Charles Bridge" since 1870. As the only means of crossing the river Vltava until 1841, Charles Bridge was the most important connection between Prague Castle and the city's Old Town and adjacent areas. Originally, it had no decoration, but at the end of the 17th century it was given the sculptural decoration that we cannot even imagine it now without. The statues of saints were built here by two most important Baroque sculptors Ferdinand Maxmilián Brokoff and Matthias Bernard Braun. In the Old Town there is an authentic portrait of the founder of the Charles IV Bridge.

Malostranské Square

There is a square under the Prague Castle that was gradually formed and functioned as a market place of merchants, often from Italy and Germany. In the 13th century it turned into an independent municipality. Behind the Castle, there was established a new town complex called Hradčany, where craftsmen settled down under Charles IV. repairing the castle and building the cathedral of St. Vitus. Opposite the Lesser Town across the Vltava River, the Old Town of Prague gradually emerged, supplemented in the 14th century by the New Town of Prague, founded by Charles IV. As a result, Prague was larger than Paris in the mid-14th century. In the 17th century St. Nicholas temple was built and in the spirit of Baroque culture by the famous architect Kylián Ignác Dientzenhofer and it became a dominant feature of the place. The church belonged to the Jesuit Order and today it is considered one of the most important works of this architect. In the photo below the text there is a statue of a saint. Who is the third Saint from the right of this statue. Opposite the temple, the Holy Trinity Plague Column was built as a gratitude for the end of the Great Plague Epidemic of 1713. Jan Neruda grew up in the Lesser Town in the 19th century. From the Prague Castle across the Lesser Town to Prague Old Town there was formerly only one possible way and it was across Charles Bridge, which was for a long time the only stone bridge linking the two banks of Prague.

Prague Castle

The history of the Prague Castle started at the end of the 9th century, when the first Premyslid Borivoj relocated his residence. Since then, the castle has been constantly rebuilt and refurbished and this process has not even ended up today. During the 10th century, two churches were built in the castle grounds. St. George and Rotunda of St. Vitus, founded by Prince Wenceslas, later patron of the Czech lands. After the founding of the bishopric, the church became a cathedral, rebuilt into a Romanesque basilica in the 11th century. The castle was originally from wood, but after 1130 it was rebuilt by the Bohemian princes into stone form.

The first task is to find the place in the photo and sing there the favorite song about Hallstatt ?

Since 1198, the castle became the capital of Czech kings. Then it burnt down several times and had to be costly repaired. The reconstruction was made mainly by Ottokar of Bohemia II, Charles IV, but also Vladislav Jagiellonian, who built a beautiful Vladislav’s Hall. Besides repairing the castle, Charles IV also began to build a large Gothic cathedral of Saint Vitus, that had not been completed until 1929. During the reign of the Habsburgs house it stopped to be a royal residence, but it never lost its importance within the Czech lands. When the Czechoslovak Republic was established in 1918, Prague Castle became the seat of the President of the Republic. That is why the Slovenian architect Jože Plečnik redesigned the presidential palace. From the frequently visited tourist sites of the castle we can mention the Golden Lane, which was formerly adjoined to the walls.

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Na začátku března jsme v rámci projektu Erasmus+ „Danube/Vltava – Common Cultural Heritage“ hostili žáky z gymnázia v rakouském Welsu. Během pobytu jsme navštívili historické centrum našeho města, Hlubokou nad Vltavou a Český Krumlov. Soutěžili jsme o nejlepší kresbu, natáčeli videoreportáže a také se vzájemně učili český a německý jazyk. Další společná akce proběhne v červnu, tentokrát v Rakousku, kam vyjede celá kvarta.