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| Stew Gitlin | profile | all galleries >> Bohemia >> The Czech Republic | tree view | thumbnails | slideshow |
 St. Vitus Cathedral |
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 Inside St. Vitus Cathedral |
 Street musicians in one of the Castle squares |
 People have to eat |
 Changing of the Guard |
 The Guard (actually there are two of them) |
 Two of the violence depicting statues found throughout the Czech Republic |
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 A town square |
 One of the beautiful gardens in Prague (and another violence depicting statue) |
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 A white peacock |
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 The John Lennon graffiti wall |
 Love forever locked (maybe :) |
 The view from the Charles Bridge over the Vlatava River to the Castle on the hill top |
 The main tower on the Old Town side of the Charles Bridge |
 The Charles Bridge |
 A little canal off of the Vlatava River |
 The Franz Kafka Memorial. That's Franz on top. |
 Blowing bubbles, BIG bubbles |
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 The interior of St. Nicholas Church in the Mala Strana area of Prague |
 The Petrin Lookout Tower |
 The Vojna Memorial Prison Labor Camp |
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 A rocket risisng from a church steeple (or maybe a jet contrail in just the right position :) |
 Cesky Krumlov Castle |
 At night |
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 View of Cesky Krumlov from inside the Castle |
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 Medieval rooms in our hotel in Cesky Krumlov |
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 Vyšší Brod Monastery - One of the amazing things about the monastery, is the 70,000 volume book collection going back centuries |
 A graphite mine outside of Cesky Krumlov |
 How the miners and us, got into the mine |
 The air ventilation system |
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 A wiener roast after horseback riding in the meadows above Cesky Krumlov |
 A tour of the Budweiser (Budvar) Brewery in Ceske Budejovice |
 The brewing vats |
 The storage tanks |
 The bottling plant |
 The town of Slavonice - a quiet little town off the main tourist trail and close to some interesting area sights. |
 The spiral staircase up to our hotel rooms in Slavonice |
 The town is about a mile from the Austrian border and has a medieval reaissance city centre with Sgraffito covered buildings |
 Many of the buildings date back to the 14th - 16th centuries |
 A wine cellar and tunnels criss-crossing under the town's main square |
 The town of Trebon known for its ancient fishing ponds |
 One of the fishing ponds - there are apparently hundreds of them in the area |
 The museum in the town of Jindrichum Hradec houses the largest mechanical nativity scene in the world |
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 Landstejn Fortress, built in the early 13th century, is one of the oldest and best preserved structures in Europe |
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 The view from the top |
 A Czechoslovakian built bunker and tank trap |
 The Jewish Synagogue in the town of Trebic |
 Lednice Castle |
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 I wasn't sure which picture I liked best, so I put up both :) |
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