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Secrets of Prague / David Černý ; translated by David Livingstone.
Van Pelt Library DB2607 .C4713 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Černý, David, 1971- author, photographer.
- Standardized Title:
- Velká tajemství Prahy. English
- Language:
- Czech
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prague (Czech Republic)--Guidebooks.
- Prague (Czech Republic).
- Prague (Czech Republic)--Description and travel.
- Prague (Czech Republic)--History.
- Prague (Czech Republic)--Pictorial works.
- Genre:
- travel guidebooks.
- Guidebooks.
- Physical Description:
- 135 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Manufacture:
- [Prague?] : Tiskárny Havlíčkův Brod a.s.
- Place of Publication:
- Prague : Grada Publishing, 2024.
- Language Note:
- In English, translated from Czech.
- Contents:
- On the hedgehogs in the bell tower of the Church of Saint Peter (Petrská zvonice)
- The mystery of the Lesser Town (Malostranský) graveyard
- The statue of Bruncvík on Charles Bridge
- The predecessor to Charles Bridge
- The four spheres of the Old Town Bridge Tower
- A Prague mystery
- The balcony at Charles Bridge
- The Old Town weir
- When Sigismund speaks out
- The eel Pepa from the fountain of the insurance office
- The Devil's stones
- A stroll to the three Prague 'est'
- Where the oldest Prague traffic sign is located
- Loreta
- The Clementinum
- Pacifik
- St. Nicholas Church
- Guard stones
- The final living witness to the martyr's death of 14 Franciscans
- Trees on Petřin hill
- When animals were bred at the Prague Castle
- Churches of Charles IV in the Prague New Town
- Hidden signs and legends of the Prague astronomical clock
- Moving of the Saint Wenceslas column
- Břetislavova Street
- House at the Last Lantern on Zlatá ulička (Golden Lane)
- The horse Ardo
- The Pachta z Rájova Palace
- Marian column
- House at the Green Frog (dům U Zelené žáby)
- The mystery of the Faust House.
- Notes:
- Photographs are by the author and others.
- ISBN:
- 9788024752501
- 8024752506
- OCLC:
- 1559911343
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