Prague Day 1

We started the day by taking Rick Steve’s guided city walk, which took us around the old town, as well as the portions of the new city. We also travelled through the layers of history - from medieval to its painful history of Nazi and Soviet occupations. We saw the enormous square (more like a long rectangular than a square) where Soviet tanks rolled in 1968 and where the famous Velvet Revolution took place to usher in Independence. In the afternoon, I took VoiceMap tour about old house signs, which in medieval times usually depicted something unique about the house owners. And in the evening I listened to a classical music concert in a beautiful church, and strolled across the Karlov Bridge at sunset.Læs mere