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Photos from my first trip there in winter 96
as well as from my expatriate days in early 1997

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Prague sits in a valley, so it isn't hard to get great aerial photos. The best vantage points are from the ugly spacelike TV Tower in Zizkov, from the "back porch" of Prague Castle, and from Old Town Hall in Stare Mesto.

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Overlooking Tyn Church. During the middle ages, people were forever getting thrown from windows like this to Old Town Square below.

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Walking along the Vltava (that's the Moldau for German speakers).

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It's very easy to get lost in Prague. Narrow, twisty streets, small passages, steep stairways--you could walk for hours and never get bored. When I lived there, a Czech monk named Father Gorazd would take me on walks around the city. I especially loved the time of day when the gas lamps lit up.

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On Vodickova Street, near Vaclavske Namesti (Wenceslas Square)

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The Municipal House. It doesn't matter what the building, almost everything is beautiful in Prague.

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 Many houses in Hradcanske (the part of town near the Castle) have their own logos...so that you live not at an address, but "at the black rose" or "at the three violins."  The very steep Nerudova Street, where these houses with these logos are, is particularly stunning.