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Palace on Stefanplatz
About the Cathedral of St. Stefan has written a lot. I noticed another house in the square, the Equitable Palace. It was designed by Andreas Streit in 1887-1891. The palace is named after the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States.
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Wide pedestrian zone
This street is considered the most elegant and expensive in Vienna. Lots of shops and cafes. The plague column deserves a separate post, it will be. And two fountains - once just fire ponds, and now beautiful sculptures with explanatory reliefs on pedestals.
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The most monumental part of the Hofburg
The New Burga, the youngest and most monumental part of the Hofburg, built from 1881 to 1913, houses the Museum of Ethnography and a branch of the Museum of Art History: the Ephesian Museum with Treasures of Ancient Asia Minor, the Court Hunting and Armory and a collection of ancient musical instrum...
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Here you can visit museums and just walk
In addition to museum activities, the area of the complex is provided for literary festivals, concerts, exhibitions of paintings. The spacious courtyard of the Museum Complex is arranged as a place of rest for citizens and guests of Vienna.
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Free organ music concerts - daily
The church building itself has an unusual oval shape, and the dome is painted in an interesting emerald color. For a relatively small building, inside the temple is richly decorated with frescoes, sculptures and gilded stucco, which worked on famous artists and sculptors of the time.
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Opera House
The opera house itself was built in 1863-1869 and it became one of the first ceremonial houses on the recently laid Ringstrasse. The authors of the project of the then Imperial and Royal Court Opera House in the style of the French Renaissance, were architects August Sicard von Zicardsburg and Edwar...
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Large architectural complex
Hofburg, with a total area of more than 250.000 m? - built haphazardly over the centuries, is one of the largest secular buildings in Europe and an impressive monument to Austrian history.
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The main temple of Vienna
St. Stephen's Cathedral, a symbol of Vienna and the most significant Gothic building in Austria, contains countless treasures, some of which can be seen only during the tour.
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Snow White Temple
Votivkirche - Church of the Promise - a neo-Gothic building on the Ringstraß e. It was built in gratitude for the failed assassination attempt on Emperor Franz Joseph.
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The coolness of the fountain attracts people
Austria
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› Monument to Soviet soldiers who died during the liberation of Austria from fascism
Mostly in Vienna, the fountains are beautiful sculptures with thin streams of water. And this fountain is the first "high" fountain, ie with a high water pressure, the jet of which creates a large area of coolness.
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7 years ago
Wonderful facade painting and unusual bay window-balcony
There are many interesting buildings in Prague with their own history, and it is difficult to single out the most beautiful of them. The house of the publisher Oleksandr Storkh on the corner of the Old Town Square is one of the most remarkable buildings in the capital.
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Area of palaces and gardens.
It used to be a separate city and mostly Germans lived here. Now - the area of Prague, which has a large number of beautiful palaces. Most of them are embassies or governing bodies - the Senate, Parliament.
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The first savings bank of the state
The first Czech savings bank was essentially a bank - and the bank required a real, large, solid building. An appropriate place was chosen for it - the corner area in the Kotze area (Prague's Old Market) - between the Old Town Square and Wenceslas Square.
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Those who died for the independence of the state
The Czech Republic honors the heroes of the Three Resistances. The First Resistance was the struggle against Austria for an independent Czechoslovakia, the Second Resistance fought the Nazis, and the Third the Communists.
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You are greeted by the Atlanteans
The building was built in 1718; the exterior design by John Fischer von Erlach was done by Matthias Bernard Brown until 1730. Reconstructions in the palace complex have occurred more than once, but its appearance since the XVIII century has not changed significantly.
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World-famous Czech composer
Antoní n Dvoř á k is a world-famous Czech composer whose works have made his native country famous all over the world. 04.06. In 2000, on the closing day of the Prague Spring Music Festival, a sculpture of Dvorak was unveiled on Jan Palach Square.
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Winged lion
A monument to Czechoslovak servicemen who served in the Royal Air Force (RAF) of Great Britain during World War II was erected in 2014 in a small park at the foot of the hill where Prague Castle is located.
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Ancient church
The Irish missionary monk Havel (550 - 640), was famous for his sensitive attitude to people, the desire to help and comfort. He zealously preached the Christian faith and allegedly knew how to cast out demons.
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The first building of Charles University
The unique architectural monument belongs to Charles University since 1383, when the son of the university's founder, King Wenceslas IV, bought one of the most tidy Prague palaces at the time for the university dormitory.
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Burial place of Czech saints
Basilica of St. George (Jiri) - the second largest church in Prague Castle. At the beginning of the XIII century to the south side of the tower was added the chapel of St.
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Symbol of Prague and Czech statehood
After the equestrian statue of Prince Wenceslas by Jan Bendl was moved from Wenceslas Square to Visegrad in 1879, there was a need for a new monument on the site of the former one.
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Narrow streets clogged with monuments and tourists
The Old Town has many monuments, museums, beautiful and old houses. And tourists are dark. Restaurants, cafes, shops, hotels - at every turn.
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Eyes widen ...
You don't know what to look for first - in front of you is the gate of Charles Bridge, on the right - the monument to Charles, behind it - the Church of Francis of Assisi with a column of vines, behind - the Temple of Salvator .
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Renovation in progress ...
The Neo-Renaissance building, built in 1891, dominates the upper part of Wenceslas Square. Since its construction, the building has not been rebuilt, it has suffered significant damage twice: in 1945 and 1968, Soviet tankers took it for a government building and opened fire.
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Fountains, sculptures, summer palaces
Of all the gardens of Prague Castle, the Royal Garden has always been the most elegant, well-groomed and tidy. Until 1534, royal vineyards grew on the site of this large park, located on the north side of the castle.
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