Tuesday, November 20, 2007

PRAGUE

Bohemia, Czech Republic

VIEW FROM CHARLES BRIDGE
Construction of the Charles Bridge began at 5:31 AM on July 9, 1357. Enumerated, the year, day, month, hour, and minute appear: 135797531. This palindromic sequence of ascending (and descending) odd digits is carved out on the Old Town bridge tower.


TYN CATHEDRAL, OLD TOWN SQUARE
Tyn Cathedral was built in the late 14th century; its roof was completed in the 1450s.


CHURCH OF ST. NICHOLAS, OLD TOWN SQUARE
This Baroque church was built between 1732 and 1735.


KAFKA MUSEUM

“‘It’s a peculiar apparatus,’ said the Officer to the Traveler, gazing with a certain admiration at the device, with which he was, of course, thoroughly familiar.”
--Franz Kafka, In the Penal Colony


ENTRANCE TO PRAGUE CASTLE
Welcome!


CHARLES BRIDGE AT NIGHT

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