Prague Castle [antikvár]

THE CASTLE OF PRAGUE AND ITS METAMORPHOSESX rague has always retained its peculiar and undefinable atmosphere of a historical city connected, however, by innumerable and often invisible links with contemporary life and its conditions. That is also the reason why everybody feels so much at home in it: it does not indulge in excesses and rarities, but keeps to natural values. It does not forcefully adhere to mediaeval clauses and canons, but lives like a modern city. It does not pretend to be a museum, because it is alive and real. Its historical and architectural memorials are attractive, and not dry and mute like parts of a historical collection.This is best illustrated by the very Prague Castle. It captivates its visitors at first glance by its surpizing extent and unusual layout, as well as by the process of its development. There are only a few castles in Europe and none of them of such importance which have been capable of retaining such continuity and harmony of historical styles. Prague Castle has succeeded in keeping this continuity with convincing and positive results. It is probably due to the fact that ever since the beginning of