Prague

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Up at 6:30 AM to see the Charles Bridge without the crowds, though there were a handful of the previous night's stragglers making their way home in the town.

Me beneath the Old Town Bridge Tower...

Miche has the bridge nearly to herself...

Miche & I next to the statue of the Madonna, St Dominic & St Thomas...
 

Crucifix & Calvary with Prague castle in the distance...
 

Looking towards the Old Town Bridge Tower...

St Vitus's Cathedral & Prague Castle...

The cross marks the spot where John of Nepomuk was thrown into the river and drowned...

The early morning sun putting the statues into silhouette...

Miche and the statue of St John of Nepomuk (the oldest on the bridge 1683). Miche upholding the tradition of touching the bronze base here; this is held to bring good fortune and to ensure that the visitor will return to the city of Prague...
 

Me and the Old Town Gate...

Me and the statue of St John the Baptist...

The Kampa Museum and its impressive penguins...

Miche at the Judith Bridge Tower end...

Statue of the Lamentation of Christ...

The beautiful sgraffito of the neo-renaissance Bedřich Smetana Museum - it used to be the old town water works...

Old Town Square...

 

The Old Town Hall...

Church of Our Lady before Týn...

Back into Wenceslas Square and the Easter Market stall holders are just beginning to stir...

I don't normally take photo's of M&S, but the balcony is on the Melantrich building in Wenceslas Square where Havel & Dubček appeared together in 1989 to announce the end of communism in Czechoslovakia. 

Miche did pop in later and buy a couple of tops to mark such an historic event!

Part 1 - Prague Walkabout

Part 3 - Prague Castle