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A visit to the Prague castle

A visit to the Prague castle

Today I want to tell you something about my visit to the Prague castle. Let’s start with some useful information about the tour:
Castello di Praga: ponte delle polveriHow to get there: we arrived safely on foot from Malostranské náměstí (where trams 12, 20, 22, 57 and 90 passes).
Entrance Tickets: various prices (certainly one from 350 and one from 250 crowns). Depending on the cost you can visit different places. Look carefully at what each ticket offers you and choose with criteria based on what interests you most. Remember to keep yours always at hand; you will have to pass the barcode through the turnstiles of each building that allows you to visit what you have purchased.
Duration of the visit: obviously much depends on the type of ticket you have taken (the more you can visit, the more time you will need) and also how long you have spent visiting each building you have the access with your ticket. We took about a couple of hours, with a “medium speed” pace.
Castello di Praga: la Basilica di San Vito With the ticket we chose, the 250 crowns one, after the royal palace and the powder bridge we headed to the beautiful Basilica of San Vito. That is a majestic building, already from the outside and from afar (and in fact, it is one of the Prague that you can see and recognise from anywhere in the city, just looking towards the castle hill). The interiors are even more immense, majestic and spectacular! The coloured reflections of the windows that reflect on the walls, the statues that seem to “speak” to you without the need for explanations of various guides and the immense spaces of this basilica I assure you that will surprise you.
Castello di Praga: cortile interno There are several courtyards in the castle area, courtyards on which (apparently) overlook the buildings and where there are also benches, “bars” and stands selling various groceries. In the picture on the right, near the “bottom” you see an umbrella: here, there is where we stopped for lunch, and we took a HotDog with a sausage decidedly “endless” and delicious. I would have taken another 20 (minimum!). A quick lunch, of course, but that canopy is a great solution if you start to get hungry and want to end the visit without taking too long a break for lunch (although, of course, you can also find cheaper solutions). Just in this courtyard, sitting on the benches, the eye falls on a gentleman who, as if nothing had happened, sat with
Castello di Praga: Basilica di San Giorgio a hawk resting on the arm (without any “blinders”). We discovered shortly after that, seeing him in action, that the hawk was the official “pigeon hunter” of the castle! In a few words: the gentleman in question goes around the castle and, when he sees a pigeon, sends the hawk to drive it away (or to hunt it. Fortunately I didn’t see too well this aspect of the action). From the splendour of San Vito, let’s move on to the simplicity of the Basilica of San Giorgio. Very small, this basilica has managed to hit me even more, compared to San Vito, for this extreme simplicity! This kind of churches/basilicas/religious buildings, in general, are those that fascinate me the most: no frills, just the essential things, the walls without strange decorations and the windows bare from super coloured and glazed windows. The visit follows, as in the Basilica of San Vito, an obligatory path that still allows you to live perfectly the small basilica and savour every corner! Don’t go running: you would miss a lot of its magic and stunning atmosphere. We continue now the tour of the castle coming out of the basilica, and we head towards the Golden Lane: it is the road (indeed, the alley) where, once, there were shops and houses of the castle guards. The apartments are all perfectly rebuilt, pity only for tourist shops that now “live” in some of them.
Castello di Praga: vicolo d'oro At the number 22 of the alley lived Kafka’s sister and, in the same house, guest of his sister, he lived Kafka himself. Unfortunately, her house is not among those rebuilt, but one those where they placed the shops for tourists visiting the castle. We conclude our visit with a taste of the panorama offered by the castle lookout: even if there was a bit of mist (which has never left us for the whole week of travel), Prague saw from up there is not bad at all.

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