Imagine a beautiful, ancient European
city that looks like the 18th century never ended, with cobbled
lanes and majestic old Baroque palaces, statues everywhere, fountains,
gardens, a brooding castle on the hill, a river crossed by historic
foot-bridge, and with no automobiles in the center to shatter
the time-warp illusion.
This must be Prague! Capital of
the Czech Republic, Prague is one of the most picturesque and
interesting cities in Europe.
It is one of the few major historic
places on the Continent that was not damaged by either World Wars,
so the well-preserved buildings you see are the real thing, not
a reconstruction or some tourist bureau fantasy.