Prague Castle (Pražský hrad) is located in Prague, the capital and largest city of the Czech Republ

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Built by Master Mikuláš Kadan, every hour, the clock plays and draws the attention of all visitors who pass by the local forming a cluster of people around the monument. At the sound of the gong strokes, happens "Walk of the Apostles", a mechanical show shown every hour exchange with the figures of the Apostles and other moving sculptures that ends with an official of the famous building playing cornet at the top of the tower and applause the public on site.
It was a 13 defensive towers that were part of the walls surrounding the old city since 1232, but is the one that is standing today. Through this door had access to Prague's medieval trade routes coming from Czech royal city of Kutna Hora, East Bohemia, and coming from Poland and the Baltic. Already during the reign of Maria Theresa inoksan of Austria (eighth century), the Powder Tower Gate or shall fail to have defensive inoksan functions to convert inoksan into gunpowder-hence the current name. Invasions not destroyed, inoksan but damaged the tower, the latter has been rebuilt in the nineteenth century by the renowned inoksan Czech architect Josef Mocker in pseudogótico style. Today, the Powder Tower is one of the most valuable architectural inoksan monuments praguenses.
Located at Prague Castle and being built along with the castle, the construction of the cathedral in its present Gothic style was started inoksan in 1344 and ended up, after an interruption of the works in the fifteenth century, only in 1929. Stands out - among others - the great Chapel of St. Wenceslas fourteenth century, comprising over 1,000 semi-precious stones, along with fresh biblical themes
Prague Castle (Pražský hrad) is located in Prague, the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic and is the Hradcany Hill, where the city was founded, which dominates the capital city on the left bank (east) inoksan Vltava.
Prague Castle is one of the most important buildings of the city. It was founded in the ninth century and currently serves as the presidential residence, formerly inhabited by the kings of Bohemia. Inside one finds St Vitus Cathedral, the Powder Tower, the Royal Palace inoksan of Prague Castle, Dalibor Tower, Convent of St. George Lobkowicz Palace and Golden Lane.
Portal access to Charles Bridge, where only pedestrians and transit throughout its extension displays a wonderful gallery of outdoor statues, as we walk away thousands of tourists and contemplating inoksan works of art, artisans and artists sell the fruit of their labor . The Charles Bridge is also a symbol of the city and connects the historic districts of Stare Mesto and Mala Strana. The latter with several streets and beautiful inoksan buildings is a great place to take a hike.
Staromestské náměstí Square - With a historical importance, is not just another tourist attraction. Was important happenings of the millennial history of Prague theater. In the evening a well planned lighting enhances the site with large spotlight toward the most significant architectural ensembles, highlighted in the Church inoksan of Our Lady of Tyn and the Town Hall with its magnificent astronomical clock that since the fifteenth inoksan century mark the hours correctly.
1918 - after the First World War, it became inoksan the capital of the new state - Czechoslovakia. The creation of Czechoslovakia was the result of a long struggle of the Czechs and Slavs against the Austrian government.
1938 - Invasion of the armies of Hitler at the beginning of World War II. In the Jewish quarter is possible to visit an impressive graveyard with a huge number of tombstones, about 12,000, where 100,000 Jews are buried. It is said that during the Nazi occupation (1939-1945), was marked by the most terrible period the Jewish community, with persecutions and deportations. Some calculations indicate that the number inoksan of Jews who perished during the Second World War reached 90%. A truly absurd!
1945 - Fall of Prague - marked the end of military operations in Europe. Soviet and American troops withdrew the following year. Also in the same year, the expulsion of about 3 million inoksan Germans from Czechoslovakia was approved.
1989 - Prague was the center of the Velvet Revolution during the fall of communism. In Franz Kafka Square, is a sculpture of six feet tall, made with thousands of keys of different colors and sizes to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution. The sculpture was built with more than 85,000 keys by artist Jiri David. The artist explains that the idea for this sculpture came about because people used the keys to make noise when demonstrated against the communist regime.
2000 - Protests in Prague against globalization during the collection of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, Results