Prague doesn’t offer to tourists delights or hullabaloos, but only treasures of art and culture. But tourists love Prague and in every season submerge the city beyond all expectations. The old Jewish cemetery is not the most cheerful place in the world: that lopsided and chipped tombstones, flown by crows, are perhaps one of the most disturbing sight that a traveler may arise inveterate during tireless wanderings. Yet enter that place has become a really difficult thing: incredible crowds of tourists find it attractive in every season of the year. The famous Golden Lane is only a short street lined with Lilliputian huts. Yet to visit it, we must wait even exhausting shifts behind a bar of iron. In recent years, after the collapse of communism regime and the out coming of consumerism, someone predicted that Prague would have transformed into a kind of Disneyland with a magical atmosphere, including its puppets in the shape of a Golem and alchemists with the fake beard walking under the neo-gothic cathedral of San Vito’s monsters. Instead this has not happened. The beautiful capital of Wenceslas, Charles and Rodolfo has calmly refused the risk of ignominy. It remained itself: a treasure chest of art and culture. Even the monuments didn’t lose the old dark patina that makes them so romantic and evocative. The profound and perfect restoration of the early 90s have not touched their atmosphere. A new need for beauty and culture is spreading among people: the overwhelming - even exaggerated - successful tour of Prague is the clearest demonstration. It is a new phenomenon, a trend, as we usually today.
Friday, December 5, 2008
Prague forever
Prague doesn’t offer to tourists delights or hullabaloos, but only treasures of art and culture. But tourists love Prague and in every season submerge the city beyond all expectations. The old Jewish cemetery is not the most cheerful place in the world: that lopsided and chipped tombstones, flown by crows, are perhaps one of the most disturbing sight that a traveler may arise inveterate during tireless wanderings. Yet enter that place has become a really difficult thing: incredible crowds of tourists find it attractive in every season of the year. The famous Golden Lane is only a short street lined with Lilliputian huts. Yet to visit it, we must wait even exhausting shifts behind a bar of iron. In recent years, after the collapse of communism regime and the out coming of consumerism, someone predicted that Prague would have transformed into a kind of Disneyland with a magical atmosphere, including its puppets in the shape of a Golem and alchemists with the fake beard walking under the neo-gothic cathedral of San Vito’s monsters. Instead this has not happened. The beautiful capital of Wenceslas, Charles and Rodolfo has calmly refused the risk of ignominy. It remained itself: a treasure chest of art and culture. Even the monuments didn’t lose the old dark patina that makes them so romantic and evocative. The profound and perfect restoration of the early 90s have not touched their atmosphere. A new need for beauty and culture is spreading among people: the overwhelming - even exaggerated - successful tour of Prague is the clearest demonstration. It is a new phenomenon, a trend, as we usually today.
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