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Prague Castle and Cathedral deliver another incredible travel vlog tour from the Czech Republic - a visit to Praha. Prague castle isn't just the Cathedral you can see from the city or across the river, commonly confused by travel peeps like us! The castle itself is enormous, the cathedral is one part of the castles grounds.
This time to visit Prague castle, we used the tram, and the stop of Málo stránská was our destination. From there we went on foot to the castle. The way is beautiful with stairs and panoramas of Prague.
On the way a beautiful Café is worth to drink morning Coffee in sunlight.
Two guys standing on the sides of the entrance of the Prague castle protecting it. Their job is to protect the Prague castle and the president who works inside of the castle so they have to stand still for one hour straight without any movement and every hour they have the change of the guards so every hour sharp you can see two more people coming here two more guards and switching their positions with them.
Their uniforms are very fancy they were designed by the same designer who worked on a set of the oscar-winning movie Amadeus about Mozart.
There is a much bigger change of the guards that takes place every day at 12 am. At the giants gate that is official entrance to the Prague castle.
St. George's Basilica is the oldest surviving church building within Prague Castle.
The basilica was founded by Vratislaus I of Bohemia in 920. It is dedicated to Saint George.
This is the cathedral of saint Vitus the reason why everybody should visit Prague castle.
This is a gothic cathedral it was built here in 14th century.
Now we are looking southern part of the Cathedral.
When time the cathedral was being built Prague was living through its golden age.
It was the city; of the whole the seats are; of the holy roman empire
King Charles the fourth the most famous Czech individual who grew up in France decided to spice it up here a little bit and add some proper gothic to the city.
we can see the main tower here and also the back of the cathedral on the right side which as you can see is much much darker than whatever we saw just a minute ago that's because the right side of the
We actually can come a little bit closer to the mosaic over there and have a look at it so what we see on the southern side of the cathedral probably the most beautiful decoration here is the mosaic of lost judgment check edition we can see Jesus Christ there virgin mary and six patron saints of Czech lands and finally john the Baptist.
It's a Czech version of last judgment because these six Czech patron saints are part of it. Among them the most famous one is Saint Wenceslas.
Sanit Wenceslas is considered to be the main patron saint of not only Czech lands but also the Czech state but he's also the main patron saint of poor people. St Wenceslas actually is buried inside of saint Vitus cathedral.

Here we can see the presidential balcony that the Czech president uses for announcing something important.

let's have a look at the passage here this is the passage that connects St. Vitus cathedral with the old royal palace the place where Czech kings used to live.

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