Prague, along the Vltava - Czech Republic 4K Travel Channel
From our hotel, we walk along Apolinarska and turn into Vinicna. At the end of Vinicna, we pass the Faculty of Medicine of the Charles University. Then we follow Nemocnice and Na Morani until we reach the Vltava River at the Palackeho most, Palacký Bridge. The Palacký Bridge is the second oldest bridge in Prague after the Charles Bridge.
We continue to the Jirásek Bridge. Here the so-called Dancing House immediately catches our eye. It was designed by the Czech architect Vlado Milunić in cooperation with the Canadian architect Frank Gehry and completed in 1996. Today, it serves as an office building with conference rooms and a restaurant on the top floor. Some see a dancer in a glass dress clinging to the dancer. That's why it's also called Ginger and Fred, after Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire.
Then we watch the bustle of the boats on the Vltava and before the lock. From here you also have a great view of Prague Castle and Hradcany.
We make a small detour now, walk along the Resslova up to the Charles Square, Park Karlovo námestí. In the Middle Ages, it was the largest marketplace in Europe. Today, it forms a green island in the middle of Prague. At the northern end is the New Town Hall, scene of the first Prague lintel.
Through the Lazarska, the Opatovicka and the Na Struze, we return to the bank of the Vltava River, which we reach between the National Theater and the Goethe Institute.
The gilded railing on the roof of the National Theater certainly helped to ground the myth of the Golden City.
From here you have the best view of the Charles Bridge, but of course also of the Prague Castle.
Afterward, we turn back towards the city center. At the Rotunda of Finding of the Holy Cross, we turn into Konviktska. It is the oldest of the three Prague rotundas, first mentioned in 1365. However, its origin dates back to the end of the 11th century. Presumably, it was a private sanctuary.
The Konviktska leads into the Betlemske nam. At its end is the restaurant Svejk. It is decorated inside with many motives of the Good Soldier Svejk. Old Bohemian cuisine invites you to stop for a bite to eat.
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Von unserem Hotel aus gehen wir rasch die Apolinarska entlang und biegen in die Vinicna ein. An deren Ende passieren wir die Medizinische Fakultät der Karls-Universität und folgen der Nemocnice und der Na Morani bis wir bei der Palackeho most (Palacký Bridge) die Moldau erreichen. Die Palacký Bridge ist nach der Karls-Brücke die zweitälteste Brücke in Prag.
Wir schlendern weiter bis zur Jirásek-Brücke. Hier fällt uns das sogenannte Tanzende Haus sofort ins Auge. Es wurde von dem tschechischen Architekten Vlado Milunić in Kooperation mit dem kanadischen Architekten Frank Gehry entworfen und 1996 fertigstellt. Heute dient es als Bürogebäude mit Konferenzräumen und einem Restaurant im obersten Stockwerk. Manche sehen darin eine Tänzerin im gläsernen Kleid, die sich an den Tänzer anschmiegt. Deshalb wird es auch Ginger und Fred genannt, in Anlehnung an Ginger Rogers und Fred Astaire.
Anschließend beobachten wir das Treiben der Boote auf der Moldau und in der daneben liegenden Schleuse. Von der Brücke aus hat man auch einen optimalen Blick auf die Prager Burg und den Hradschin.
Wir machen nun eine kleinen Bogen, gehen die Resslova entlang bis zum
Park Karlovo náměstí, dem Karlplatz. Im Mittelalter war dies der größte Marktplatz in Europa. Heute bildet er eine grüne Insel inmitten von Prag. Am nördlichen Ende befindet sich das Neustädter Rathaus, Schauplatz des ersten Prager Fenstersturzes.
Durch die Lazarska, die Opatovicka und die Na Struze kehren wir wieder an das Ufer der Moldau zurück, die wir zwischen National Theater und Goethe Institut erreichen.
Das vergoldete Geländer auf dem Dach des Nationaltheaters trug sicherlich dazu bei den Mythos der “Goldenen Stadt” zu begründen.
Von hier aus hat man einen hat man den besten Blick auf die Karlsbrücke, aber natürlich auch auf die Prager Burg.
Wir wenden uns anschließend wieder in Richtung Innenstadt. Bei der Rotunde des Finden des Hl. Kreuzes biegen wir in die Konviktska ein. Es ist die älteste der drei Prager Rotunden. Sie wurde erstmals im Jahre 1365 erwähnt. Man datiert ihre Entstehung jedoch auf das Ende des 11. Jahrhunderts. Vermutlich war sie ursprünglich ein privates Heiligtum.
Die Konviktska mündet in die Betlemske nam. An deren Ende befindet sich das Restaurant Svejk. Es ist innen dekoriert mit vielen Motiven des Braven Soldaten Schwejk. Altböhmische Küche lädt zur Einkehr ein.
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Principality of Moravia | Wikipedia audio article
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00:04:59 1 Name
00:05:08 1.1 Great Moravia
00:07:43 1.2 Etymology
00:08:39 2 Territory
00:11:46 2.1 Traditional view
00:14:42 2.2 Further theories
00:16:42 3 History
00:16:51 3.1 Origins (before c. 800)
00:21:38 3.2 Development of Moravia (c. 800–846)
00:28:16 3.3 Fights for independence (846–870)
00:35:21 3.4 Svätopluk's reign (870–894)
00:44:36 3.5 Decline and fall (894–before 907)
00:49:45 4 State and society
00:49:55 4.1 Sources
00:51:06 4.2 Settlement structure
00:57:41 4.3 Monarchs
00:58:51 4.4 Administration
01:01:33 4.5 Warfare
01:05:28 4.6 Aristocracy
01:06:42 4.7 Population
01:09:31 5 Economy
01:12:44 6 Culture
01:12:53 6.1 Sacral architecture
01:16:50 6.2 Religion
01:20:15 6.3 Literature
01:23:44 6.4 Arts
01:24:43 7 Legacy
01:30:09 8 See also
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Great Moravia (Latin: Regnum Marahensium; Greek: Μεγάλη Μοραβία, Megálī Moravía; Czech: Velká Morava [ˈvɛlkaː ˈmorava]; Slovak: Veľká Morava [ˈʋɛʎkaː ˈmɔraʋa]; Polish: Wielkie Morawy), the Great Moravian Empire, or simply Moravia, was the first major state that was predominantly West Slavic to emerge in the area of Central Europe, chiefly on what is now the territory of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland (including Silesia), and Hungary. The only formation preceding it in these territories was Samo's Empire known from between 631 and 658 AD. Great Moravia was thus the first joint state of the Slavonic tribes that became later known as Czechs and Slovaks and that later formed Czechoslovakia.
Its core territory is the region now called Moravia in the eastern part of the Czech Republic alongside the Morava River, which gave its name to the kingdom. The kingdom saw the rise of the first ever Slavic literary culture in the Old Church Slavonic language as well as the expansion of Christianity after the arrival of St. Cyril and St. Methodius in 863 and the creation of the Glagolitic alphabet, the first alphabet dedicated to a Slavonic language, which had significant impact on most Slavic languages and stood at the beginning of the modern Cyrillic alphabet.
Moravia reached its largest territorial extent under the king Svätopluk I, (Svatopluk in Czech), who ruled from 870 to 894. Although the borders of his empire cannot be exactly determined, he controlled the core territories of Moravia as well as other neighbouring regions, including Bohemia, most of Slovakia and parts of Slovenia, Hungary, Poland and Ukraine, for some periods of his reign. Separatism and internal conflicts emerging after Svätopluk's death contributed to the fall of Great Moravia, which was overrun by the Hungarians who then included the territory of the now Slovakia in their domains. The exact date of Moravia's collapse is unknown, but it occurred between 902 and 907.
Moravia experienced significant cultural development under King Rastislav, with the arrival in 863 of the mission of Saints Cyril and Methodius. After his request for missionaries had been refused in Rome, Rastislav asked the Byzantine emperor to send a teacher (učitelja) to introduce literacy and a legal system (pravьda) to Great Moravia. The request was granted. The missionary brothers Cyril and Methodius introduced a system of writing (the Glagolitic alphabet) and Slavonic liturgy, the latter eventually formally approved by Pope Adrian II. The Glagolitic script was probably invented by Cyril himself and the language he used for his translations of holy scripts and his original literary creation was based on the Slavic dialect he and his brother Methodius knew from their native Thessaloniki. The language, termed Old Church Slavonic, was the direct ancestral language for Bulgarian, and therefore also referred to as Old Bulgarian. Old Church Slavonic, ...
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