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Kozacka apartment
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CHARLES BRIDGE
Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:12
Viewing tower: Apr - Oct: daily 10 am - 6 pm, Nov - Mar: 10 am - 5 pm; Metro: Staromestska
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For 400 years, the Gothic Charles Bridge, resting on its 16 piers, was the only connection between the Old Town and the Little Quarter. Emperor Charles IV commissioned its construction in 1357, under the direction of Peter Parler. 
Originally the parapet of the bridge was left unadorned; between 1657 and 1714 most of the statues were gradually added. Today, it is hard to imagine the bridge without them. 
The most famous is that of St Nepomuk (seen from the Old Town, the eighth figure on theright and one of the first to be erected on the bridge in 1683). For Catholics in rural Bohemia, Silesia, along the River Elbe and in Bavaria St Nepomuk in the patron saint of bridges. Touching the relief below the statue is said to bring good luck - the smootjly polished surface indicates just how many visitors believe this. 
Between the sixth and seventh pier on the right, a cross on the parapet marks the spot where the priest was hurled into the river 600 years ago by King Wenceslas IV's henchmen. Despite being tortured, he upheld the seal of confession. The first group of statues to be added to the bridge made up the Crucifixion scene (third on the right); the last to date, the canonised brothers Cyril and Methodius (1938, fifth on the right). |
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