Prague: a medieval "orgasm" in the heart of Czech Republic

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Stare Mesto, Prague's Old Town, at 23:50 on June 22, 2008 ... Amid the glowing yellow and red hordes of Spaniards celebrating, reflecting again on penalties el the exclusion of our beloved Italy from 'Euro2008, I can despite everything, despite the flocks Blues begin to retreat to the pub Pilsner, a living room feel, comfort and joy, ecstasy and happiness, for two reasons: first, I'm in a city that is home to me for 7 years, Barcelona, where the follow sfottò derision the prosecution and the searing raspberries, but second because before me, behind me, around me, blooms and lives a wonderful city, wonderful medieval old soul, modern heart. Prague: didn `expecting that. After visiting several other cities of monumental 'est, for me I love the Middle Ages, its culture, l `obscurantism strength, his legend and his wealth, Prague was a bit is the litmus test.

If I were asked: What you can not miss in Prague? .. well, I would say that you can not lose anything, in fact everything you see will be aesthetically beautiful, maybe sometimes superficial but not 'another great marvel.
`In the middle of Europe, Central Europe was in Prague over the centuries, not just a city where the art, music, cinema, dance, theater were part of life a bit naive of Prague, but but home and place of historical events from the first magnitude.
From a small village during the Middle Ages, became gradually important urban center, then to become the capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia, to climb the mountain of glory and become the capital for a short time SacroRomanoImpero.
Unfortunately, the `barbarism of the Thirty years War, which broke out here, with the fall" desired "by some Catholic councilors from the windows of the castle (the so famous Defenestration of Prague) which was fuse of a bloody and cruel conflict that chess forever nationalist claims of Bohemian and Lutheran ...
Then the decline until 1800, where the art has exploded with his wonderful fortune, until the `Nazi annexation, the strangled cry of freedom, the looting Soviets, others strangled cry of freedom in 68 ... stories oppressed histories of country now proud of how and what it is.
People who must be: Heritage of UNESCO in hindsight, you can not leave without seeing:
The Castle in the early morning, the Charles Bridge (Hold on bags, pouch, pouches, backpacks ... please), the Old City, Jewish Quarter and Mala Strana. Czech food is very good to eat, a place to dream:
Kolkovna, in the Jewish Quarter, fantastic, delicious and very cheap (best to book ...). The remainder will be emotions that taking along relentlessly, boys ...
Prague catapults my soul back a thousand years, the time of 4 Prague, StareMesto, Hrdacany, Nove Mesto and Visehrad. Four old souls, who later became the Prague today, united in the sign of an incomparable beauty, an elegance unsurpassed, panoramic views from fear, from beer to goulash, its smoky pubs, the streets pretty pebbled but then his towers, its parks, the Vltava, its Charles Bridge, its Gothic churches, Romanesque, Renaissance, a bit of art nouveau, a bit of cubism and again Kafza, music enveloping the knights and their massacres, Black theater, puppetry deformed beaks that sneer from the edges of the churches, its castle, its ramparts, its squares just .... ahhhhh ..
Just ...
No description can be quite ... Prague has to be seen, as they call the Czechs, the mother of all cities open to the future as the cultural capital of New Greater Europe.
Cheers!

Andrea