PRAGUE | One of the Most Interesting Cities in Europe

PRAGUE | One of the Most Interesting Cities in Europe

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hi there good morning this is Prague the
capital and largest city of the Czech
Republic or czechia today is April 17th
it is currently 44° Fahrenheit that is
6° c a chilly day here in mid April the
sun came out for a little while and I
quickly warmed up and then it went away
and it is back to being cold so I have a
long underwear on under the uh pants
here we’ll see what the uh Day brings
one of those Anything Could Happen sort
of a days so
uh around here is the Prague Castle
complex according to Guinness Book of
World Records the largest Castle complex
in the
world and the
current home of the president of the
Czech
Republic
so Prague is absolutely one of the most
beautiful phenomenal European
cities which was also the capital of
Czechoslovakia a country that uh existed
through the Communist era
and then split apart into the Czech
Republic and
Slovakia in 1992 corresponding with the
fall
of the
Communist Soviet Union
and the dissolution of Communist
governments in this part of the
world in the early
1990s and as a result
of this uh part of Europe becoming more
accessible than the
Wonder of uh many countries and cities
within Eastern Europe in general but
especially Prague here has become very
well known and popular and is now one of
the most uh visit destinations in Europe
and for good
reason and yet at the same
time it is
still quite different from other major
uh European cities
Paris Amsterdam London Rome that are for
one thing larger and also just more
well-known more besieged by tourists
Prague has a much uh smaller feel
than some of those
other cities and the architecture is
just classic
European the entire center of the city I
mean basically everything that I’ve
seen is almost all the old uh
architecture so it is really a
uh Wonderland of exploring
look at
those for
booting Gothic
spires and the incredible Castle Square
construction on the castle began in
870
ad so built during the 9th
century the history of this region
goes back long before
that into
BC there were Jews here
Kelts Germanic
tribes and then the Slavs
arrived
and have been here ever
since St
paus we have some
Latin St Petrus
today president Leopold Fountain
here
l in 2020 the restoration of a
significant piece of cultural heritage
on the Prague Castle’s second Courtyard
the leopolds fountain from 1686 was
finished on the initiative of the
Heritage preservation department Leopold
I of
Habsburg was crowned the king of bohemia
on 14th September
1656 at the Prague castle and the Holy
Roman Emperor on 1st August
1658 there he
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is besides other things Leopold tried to
initiate the completion of the
construction of the saint by
Cathedral the foundation stone was laid
on 3rd September 1673 but after 4 years
the activity had to be quit for
financial
reasons okay let’s go see the cathedral
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and we have a long
line to go inside let see how
long it would be nice to see inside but
uh okay this doesn’t seem so
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bad okay change of plans so it turned
out I needed to have have a ticket
before getting in the line which I guess
you can get maybe right there but in the
meantime then the line got a lot longer
and I just kind of decided
that I’ve been inside a lot of
cathedrals and I’m not in the mood for
uh the line and the crowds in general
and would rather just get walking
head down to the
uh
river walk across the Charles bridge
and for now just show more of
the spectacular outside of the
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cathedral incredible uh
clock
there
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and artwork
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here looks like
depicting aspects of uh the life of
Jesus and
Angels various
Christian
uh figures and perhaps historical people
not sure but
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uh
there a man
like inside
of a crypt kind of looks like Angels
maybe rescuing people from the
underworld is my best guess there
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and then I’m
assuming that must be Jesus right
there Adam and Eve the
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snake Jesus on the
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cross looks like probably some local
people a hunter
with I guess that’s a
dog around his neck there I was thinking
it was a deer at
first is it a deer that he just hunted
or a dog that is his companion hunting
companion can’t quite tell but
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uh cooking up a pig whoo a scorp
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interesting and this is the main
Courtyard the other one was the
secondary
one another
line
Star kovski pxo Palace I’m
assuming okay let’s
do the
walk down to the vava
river love all the
stone the
Cobblestone magnificent wooden
doors okay okay what is that
saying looks like 16 and then
IHS m r a z9 huh some
cherubs a lion on a
shield so much symbolism
here and another Courtyard
there you can see it looks like
bohemi so
Bohemia is the
uh ancient uh nation of uh the Czech
Republic this General
region previously called Bohemia
okay let’s uh pop inside here to show
the inside of
somewhere looks like George
Sanctuary basilica
jiri so St George
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Basilica
continue I don’t have a ticket yet
y so I had realized that I needed a
ticket for there as well and just wanted
to show the inside a little bit at
least so let’s get down into the
city there is a lot to see in Prague
this is certainly not going to be a
fully comprehensive tour
I am here for three full days and so I
have more time to uh show more of Prague
but actually my priority
is getting outside of Prague and seeing
more of the Czech
Republic when I was here before I only
visited Prague
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so I will plan to go to chesy Crum
laav and we’ll see where else but I
might do some day
trips from here in the next day or
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two there you can see the vava river and
Charles
bridge okay that is is not Charles
bridge right there or is
it let’s find
out here we have the South Gardens I
am attempting
to retrace my steps kind of and uh get
back to where
I entered the castle
before because I really like the uh old
toown area that I was walking through
there so I think that that will be back
up here but uh from here you get
more amazing views of the
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city you can get a sense here of
why this is
the largest ancient castle in the world
Castle complex of many different
buildings but uh I mean this right here
is just
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gargantuan and so from here I can
confirm that indeed that is not the
Charles bridge there that I’d seen from
that Viewpoint because here I recognize
that uh Tower from last last night when
I walked across the river and had dinner
over there and that Tower is at the
other end of the Charles bridge which is
the most famous bridge in Prague over
the
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vava yes so here you can see
priad Prague Castle K most Charles
bridge so I started the video right
around the corner here so I’ve come full
circle
and the sun has come out at least
for a few moments
and I am now going to uh head down these
stairs that will lead down into the old
town
and to the
river so this is really a classic old
style
Street beef
goulash Cafe Restaurant established
1527 look at
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that and then look at this uh building
here
medieval
Tavern scared by the
man funny look at this
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medieval accommodation apartments two to
four people separate rooms bathroom
kitchen information inside the tver okay
is this
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whoa
unfortunately you probably you can’t
really get the
uh full effect because it is so dark but
man this is seriously like a dungeon so
there is the uh
restrooms and
then going down further you got to watch
you don’t bang your head wa these are I
guess tables you can sit at it must be
quite a
scene in the evening
when it’s fully Alive
wow this is really phenomenal I mean
this is the real
deal oh wow it is so warm in
here hello
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so yeah more tables here that you can
sit
at this is so just straight out of Lord
of the Rings or Dungeons and Dragons or
something like
that and
another statue of a man sitting here
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well last night I had been saying that I
was looking for a dungeon like
restaurant looks like that is the one to
uh go back to sometime
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genitori another nice Square here
let’s see about going
inside this church
here looks like it might be easier
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the weather is so all over the place I
was
overheating took off my jacket and scarf
and now now a chill
wind there is the Charles
bridge let’s take a closer look at
the old style tram
go
the old and
new speaking of
old what year was that car made
so I guess that uh weed is legal in the
Czech Republic I assume because I walked
past his
shop on the way going up there just a
little while ago
whoo
that and
uh there we was this box kind of
like
those boxes with the toys and the claw
that you try to grab the uh Toys out of
so like a you know plastic uh not glass
but seethrough plastic box and inside it
was buds like just a big pile of buds
I guess it was a yeah that’s right it
said coffee shop on the outside
which in Amsterdam of course a coffee
shop is not where you go to get coffee
okay here we go this one more
obvious great timing weed shop premium
marijuana THC CBD and plants right there
in the
window so
yes it is
obviously very
legal okay I thought that said something
else at first
pens Snoop
Dog not only
CBD THC
cookies sativa
hi cartridge dab cartridge I don’t even
know what you use those for is that like
for Vaping or something CBD
oil okay let’s uh walk in here you
see OG push Super Skunk Gorilla Glue
Jack
hair so I thought that I would wander
down here
and see what this is Art
Cafe okay I guess that is the art
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CFE I figured it was
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oh and here we
go lesser Town Bridge Tower there are
two towers on the Lesser Town end of the
Charles bridge connected by a grand
Gothic gate Judith’s Tower is the
Romanesque style lower one dating back
to the 12th century it is older than the
bridge the
tall lesser Tower was built as a proper
Bridge tower towers with a gate used to
be an important part of town
fortification in times when lesser town
was an independent territory
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and there you can see see the Prague
Castle
complex the Charles bridge over the vava
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river so for those who haven’t seen the
uh previous two videos
then this is just the beginning of my
next big Epic Journey so the last time
that I was here in Prague in
2018 that was the very end of a long
trip of mine I had to look back at my
old videos to
remember where I was
before here and where I went
next so I flew from here to Helsinki
Finland and then that was the end of
that trip this
time I am here at the very
beginning flew here from Portland Oregon
yesterday no more flights booked as of
now the plan is
to spend the next couple of weeks or
so in the Czech Republic and Slovakia
and
then I will see after that
but I had previously been to Prague here
and Bros Slava Slovakia but hadn’t seen
more of these countries and they are
kind of lesser known
countries yet with a lot to see and so I
wanted to see more beyond the
capital cities
after
that not certain yet but the plan is
definitely to get back to the
Mediterranean before everyone else
before the churis crowds come in July
and
August
so yes returning to Greece maybe
Italy Maybe
some Spanish
Islands
perhaps return to the canaries
or the azors and Madera both Island
archipelagos of Portugal in the
Atlantic maybe
Norway where I also have only seen the C
Capital
Oslo
but it is all yet to be
determined okay let’s uh see if these
guys are going to make some
music all right here we go
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and I have something to give
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them
so on the right that is
50 karuna and then
10 5
22 1 so a nice selection
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of their coins so 50 10
five that
is 70 wait wait no that’s different is
that another
50 okay can’t quite
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see what that
is is that another
10 not certain I love their coins
though anyway that
is about $3 us or3
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gabrielis respond
op Fiat
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repus a
interesting Gabriel again proprium
valet
so I guessed something about the angel
Gabriel feeling the chill it all depends
on whether or not the sun is out
okay
so I have now returned to where I ended
the
video
yesterday and where I will end the video
today there is
certainly much more to see of This truly
incredible City
so we’ll
see where I
go in the coming
days let’s wander
down here and
finish up at this
uh Little
Square where I ate last
night a very nice uh
pedestrian area lots of touristy
restaurants and
shops in the old style
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Walking through the streets of the fascinating city of Prague, the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic (Czechia).
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