Municipal House

Today we attended the rescheduled tour of the Municipal House, which I discovered is not, in fact, a municipal building, but rather a concert hall whose name happens to translate to "municipal" in English. This building boasted a large number of sitting rooms and parlors in addition to the main concert hall. Each parlor was decorated in different styles and themes, with paintings covering the walls and ceiling. In one room, murals cover every inch of the walls, depicting prominent moments and figures of Czech history. This room is designed in such a way, perfectly circular and domed, that if you stand in the very center and make noise, the sound reverberates back to you amplified. This can only be heard by the person standing in the middle, to others, it sounds normal. When I tried it, I jumped because it startled me so much. You're not expecting the force at which the noise comes back to you, especially after watching others do it and not hearing a difference.Læs mere