Památky staré Prahy [antikvár]

In the heart of Europe, ín the centre of Bohemia, was founded a thousand years ago, the city which bears the proud designation - Praga caput regnh It was not only the capital of the kingdom of Bohemia, but for long alsó the metropolis of the largest single state in mediaeval Europe, the residence of kings and emperors, the centre of widely-radiating cultural activity. For its spacious splendour and beauty, the picturesqueness of its situation, for the glorious and tragic pages of its history, the city has been called Golden Prague, the City of a Hundred Towers, the Mother of Cities. . . Tribute has been paid to her by Mozart and Beethoven, by Goethe, Chateaubriand, Apollinaire, by Rodin and Dostoyevski, Jerome K. Jerome, and many others. The image of their native city is projected into the work of Franz Kafka, R. M. Rilke, Franz Werfel and Jaroslav Hasek, Prague has known times of fame and flowering, and times of bittér defeat and gloom, which equally have left their impress on her features of stonee Few cities can show so complete a record of monuments from the 10th to the 20th centuries as Praha, the capital of Czechoslovakia.