Even though we stayed in ahotel in Prague every night we were in the Czech Republic, we only spent twoand a half days bombing around that city seeing all the sites. I’ve shared afew of those places already, but today it’s going to be a little bit ofeverything.

First here are a few totally random buildings. I just thought they were all so cool. So ancient looking and like something out of a fairy tale.

The building below is called the Rudolfinum and was first opened in 1885. Since 1946, it has been the home of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra.

The Golden Stag statue is a decorative statue from 1726. It depicts Saint Hubert, the patron saint of hunters, looking at the golden stag. The story goes that Saint Hubert, while he was hunting, had a vision of a stag with Jesus on the cross between its antlers.

St Nicholas Church in Lesser Town. On Wednesday, I shared a picture of St Nicholas Church in Old Town. It gets confusing; I don’t know how the tour guides keep it all straight.

And the confusion continues. This is the New City Hall in Old Town. It was built between 1908 and 1911, but it didn’t take on all of the government offices until 1945, when the Old Town Hall in Old Town suffered major damage during a fire. (I showed you a picture of that also on Wednesday.)

The Prague Municipal Library. Since 1998, just inside the building there is a book tower called the Idiom, a column of 8,000 books by the Slovak artist Matej Kren. People stand in line outside just to step inside and catch a glimpse of it.

The Maisel Synagogue is located in the former Jewish quarter of Prague and was built at the end of the 16th century in the Gothic Revival style.

Just a block and a half down the street from there is the Old Jewish Cemetery. Because it is so small, they had to bury the caskets on top of each, which meant the headstones had to be stacked next to each other too. It is also why the ground in the cemetery is so much higher than the surrounding streets. The line to get in was two blocks long and there is an admission fee, so I didn’t get to see it. Look up pictures of it on-line; it looks very sad to me. Click here to read what Wikipedia has to say about it.