A view of Prague from Vyšehrad. At one time Vyšehrad and the Prague Castle were on opposing banks. All that's left of Vyšehrad is ruins and part of the wall. The gray line through the green trees is called the Hunger Wall - so named because the King had peasants build it during the 1360s to give them a job so they wouldn't go hungry.
A view of the Prague Castle from Vyšehrad. I love the bridges!
The Church of St. Peter and St. Paul.
Cool waterwheel in Prague just off the Charles Bridge.
Fun colorful buildings.
Supercool fresco inside the pavilion at Vrtba Garden.
View from the top of the terraced Vrba Garden. I kind of like the Italian Baroque style.
More rooftops.
The clock tower town hall building showing some of the only damage done to buildings during the World Wars. You can see where part of the wall was blown off. This happened during the final days of WWII. One of the reasons Prague is such a beautiful city is because there was so little damage done during the wars.
Town Hall of the Jewish Quarter. The clock uses Hebrew numbers and moves anticlockwise.
The synagogue that now houses the Jewish Museum. One of the reasons that the Jewish Quarter buildings survived intact during Hitler's reign is because he planned to make it a "museum to an extinct race". It's very sobering to see the evidence of the atrocities perpetrated on these people and to realize that the only trace left of some families is a single item preserved in a museum.
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