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Kozacka apartment
Location: Prague centre
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Min stay: 1 Price CZK per night: 1000 Price CZK per month: 18000 Rooms: 1+kk Beds: 3 Bathrooms: 1 Toilets: 1 FIXED INTERNET CONNECTION SPECIAL OFFER: 25 May - 5 June for only 800 CZK a night for the apartment. Na Kozacce apartment
Location: Prague centre
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Min stay: 1 Price CZK per night: 1700 Price CZK per month: 25000 Rooms: 1+kk Beds: 4 Bathrooms: 1 Toilets: 1 FIXED INTERNET CONNECTION Celetna apartment
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Min stay: 1 Price CZK per night: 1800 Price CZK per month: 35000 Rooms: 2+kk Beds: 6 Bathrooms: 1 Toilets: 1 |
LORETTO SHRINE
Sun, 10 Feb 2008 08:30
Daily, except Mon 9 am to 4.30 pm; 90 CZK; Loretánské náměstí 7; Metro: Hradčans
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According to legend, angels carried the house from Palestine to the laurel plantation Loreto near Ancona. Not surprisingly, Princess Lobkowicz chose Italian master builders Giovanni Orsi and Andrea Allio to recreate the original. The rwo-storey cloisters of the “Casa Santa” are particularly impressive. The second storey is by Kilian Ignasz Dietzenhofer (1740). 
Twenty years previously he had designed the façade and the bell tower. The bells sound a hymn of praise to the Virgin Mary every hour. Inside the limewood figure of the Madonna is particularly noteworthy. So too is the curious Chapel of Our Lady of Sorrows. Acording to the legend, the Portuguese princess represented here sprouted a beard – by divine intervention – in order to divert the attention of men, and was subsequently crucified. Far more attractive is the Monstrance, with 6,222 diamonds, measuring 90 cm in height and weighing 12 kg, which was made in 1698-99 in Vienna. |
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