Walking around Prague Some More

More interesting things that I found around Prague: 

The new National Museum.  It was built, during the '80s, as a Soviet radio station with the intention of spreading propaganda and of blocking out the transmissions from Radio Free Europe, which was based in Munich, Germany.  After the fall of the Soviet Union, the headquarters of Radio Free Europe moved from Munich to this exact building in Prague--a little historical irony.  Over the last couple of years, the museum has been moving over to this building, although it still hasn't finished moving entirely.

         
The subway systems are much deeper underground than the Dutch stations I have been around (being on mountains instead of a swamp probably makes a difference).  The elevator on the left is one of two of about the same length that you have to take to get down to the subway accesses.  They also have decorated the subway stations attractively.  A lot of them have the same pattern but with different colors on the wall.


I think that this is an entertaining "mind the gap" sign on the train.





This is the Emauzský klášter (the Emmaus Convent) from the front (above) and the rear (on the right).

On the left are the kinds of buildings that I expected to see more of in a former Soviet nation, but didn't really see that much.  On the right is a retaining wall that is built on top of the rocks that are sticking out of the mountain.


Salmon and egg yellow were popular colors in the Czech Republic.

 
There were a lot of hills in Prague.  Especially compared to the Netherlands.  I was pretty sure that I was about to have problems with altitude sickness.  The pink house, there, has interesting flags:  UK, US, EU, and Czech.  I am not sure of the significance of those.


I don't know which church this is but I really like the gold halo around the saint at the top.


This is an abandoned street (at least I assume that its abandoned because the street parking signs are all crossed off).  But it has white birch trees on it.  Which I thought added a homey touch.  There are towers and spires and greened copper all over the place.


The church on the left is the Klášter Svatá Anežka Česká--The Convent of Agnes of Bohemia.  It is in the Jewish Quarter.  I don't know what the other church is but it is in the Old Quarter.

 The tower on the right is part of a giant hotel.  The building on the right is another opera building.

This building is a government building of some kind.  From a distance, it looks very majestic.  Up close, you can see that the facade is peeling away from walls and that it looks kind of sad.  But it has a pretty tower and cute little clocks.