Populated in 1265 by inhabitants of the Austrian province 'Upper Austria' and by inhabitants of the Bohemian Forest, the compact old town České Budějovice (Budweis in German and English) in the Czech Republic is an example of the peak of medieval urbanism in the Czech Lands.
Thanks to royal favors as well as its economically important location around the intersection of commercial long distance trading routes the city grew with beautiful architectural constructions. At first mostly humble wooden houses were built to serve as dwellings for the residents, however stone buildings soon replaced these. Two beautiful churches were completed and solid fortified walls were erected around the city by the turn of the 14th century. For its unfailing loyalty and fulfillment of duties and obligations the Royal Crown rewarded Ceske Budejovice time and again with advantages and numerous privileges guaranteeing economic prosperity. One of the most important was the privilege granted by Charles IV in 1351, which decreed that merchants should travel through České Budějovice and offer their goods here. With its population of almost 4,000 České Budějovice became one of the biggest and most important cities in the Kingdom of Bohemia.
Ceske Budejovice with buildings dating from the 15th century is a pleasant spot to visit.
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Friday, June 29, 2012
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Budweis - Pearl of Bohemia - Czech Republic
České Budějovice (colloquially: Budějice or Budějce; German: Budweis or Böhmisch Budweis; often referred to as Budweis in English) was founded by Hirzo, a knight of King Ottokar II of Bohemia, and was granted its municipal charter in 1265. The royal city was created as a platform of the king's power in South Bohemia and to counterbalance the powerful noble House of Rosenberg, which finally became extinct in 1611.
The old town preserves interesting architecture from Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque and 19th century period, and it was here were the second oldest railroad line (horse-drawn !!) on the European continent began, connecting České Budějovice and Linz in Austria. However the city's main attraction is: Beer. There are still two breweries, though you might not realize it just wandering around town. Budějovický Měšťanský Pivovar is the smaller, but older one. The other, famous Budějovický Budvar (Budweiser), is the last Czech brewery still owned by the state. There's a simple reason for that: No-one wants Anheuser-Busch to buy it, which is what would certainly happen were it to be privatized.
Take a pleasant, unhurried walk through Budějice's streets, soak up the atmosphere, admire the square and architecture, view the city from the Black Tower, indulge in the city's excellent Budvar Bier and savor a yummy traditional South Bohemian meal. I believe you will fall in love with České Budějovice even if the weather is bad.
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The old town preserves interesting architecture from Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque and 19th century period, and it was here were the second oldest railroad line (horse-drawn !!) on the European continent began, connecting České Budějovice and Linz in Austria. However the city's main attraction is: Beer. There are still two breweries, though you might not realize it just wandering around town. Budějovický Měšťanský Pivovar is the smaller, but older one. The other, famous Budějovický Budvar (Budweiser), is the last Czech brewery still owned by the state. There's a simple reason for that: No-one wants Anheuser-Busch to buy it, which is what would certainly happen were it to be privatized.
Take a pleasant, unhurried walk through Budějice's streets, soak up the atmosphere, admire the square and architecture, view the city from the Black Tower, indulge in the city's excellent Budvar Bier and savor a yummy traditional South Bohemian meal. I believe you will fall in love with České Budějovice even if the weather is bad.
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Sunday, June 24, 2012
Budweis Czech Republic - 700 years of Brewing Tradition
Budějovice (German and English: Budweis) in the Czech Republic has long been well known for the beer brewed there since the 13th century. For a time the town was the imperial brewery for the Holy Roman Emperor, and Budweiser Bier (i.e. beer from Budweis) became, along with Pilsner from Plzeň (Pilsen), one of the best-known lagers.
The largest brewery in České Budějovice, founded in 1895, is "Pivovar Budějovický Budvar" (Budweiser Budvar Brewery) which has legal rights to market its beer under the "Budweiser" brand name in much of Europe. The same product has to be sold elsewhere under the names "Budvar" and "Czechvar" because of legal disagreements with Anheuser-Busch over the Budweiser brand.
The American lager was originally brewed as an imitation of the famous Bohemian original, but over time has attained remarkable commercial success. Anheuser-Busch has made offers to buy out the Czech brewing company in order to secure global rights to the name "Budweiser", but the Czech government has refused all such offers, regarding the Czech Budweiser name as a matter of national pride.
The real original czech Budweiser beer is one of the best beers I have tried and is up there with Pilsner Urquell as one of the best lagers in the world. It tastes so good. It makes me a little ashamed of what American taste has come to.
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The largest brewery in České Budějovice, founded in 1895, is "Pivovar Budějovický Budvar" (Budweiser Budvar Brewery) which has legal rights to market its beer under the "Budweiser" brand name in much of Europe. The same product has to be sold elsewhere under the names "Budvar" and "Czechvar" because of legal disagreements with Anheuser-Busch over the Budweiser brand.
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The real original czech Budweiser beer is one of the best beers I have tried and is up there with Pilsner Urquell as one of the best lagers in the world. It tastes so good. It makes me a little ashamed of what American taste has come to.
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Friday, June 22, 2012
Trabant Ostalgie
In the late '50s a vehicle emerged from the socialist part of Germany (DDR): The Trabant - East Germany's answer to West Germany's VW Beetle. It became the symbol of Eastern transportation and the epitome of socialism: Bad, not capable of doing too many things, not too efficient but still working somehow.
The Trabant was intended to be the representative of the intermediate car category: A 2+2 seater vehicle with a small, easy-to-repair engine, lightweight construction with a little boot at the back. It was powered by a two-stroke (V2) pollution generator that maxed out at an ear-splitting 18-hp (or 26-hp "Luxe" model), and made of fiberglass-like Duroplast, reinforced with recycled fibers like cotton and wood. It's said that goats sometimes ate abandoned Trabants. Its max speed was 60 mph (more than enough for the bad roads in Eastern Europe), and it came in some pretty odd colors, such as diarrhea brown or traffic-light green.
Notoriously unreliable, Trabants smoked like an Iraqi oil fire and often lacked even the most basic of amenities, like brake lights or turn signals. The fuel was gravity-fed to the carburetor (no fuel pump). To keep it running one had to manually add oil to the fuel (like to an old lawnmower). Since there was no fuel gage the car had a dipstick with liter-marks that one could dip in the gas tank to see how much gas there is. The engine was air-cooled (no need for radiator, antifreeze or waterpump), and it had a direct ignition system (no need for distributor cap/rotor, etc.). Front end collisions often resulted in fires.
Nevertheless, Trabants were to be the perfect means of transportation for the whole family - a "people's car," as if the people didn't have enough to worry about.
They had to enter a lottery for the opportunity to purchase one of these cars; not to win a car, but to be allowed to pay approximately a year's salary for one. But since there was not much else to buy in the country, it didn't matter. If they won, the waiting time for their new Trabant was ten to fifteen years after ordering. Those who registered their name on the waiting list and paid for a new Trabant in 1973 never got one. Before their car was ready the Berlin Wall fell, Germany was reunified (in 1989), and production of the Trabant ceased in 1991.
But due to the long waiting period between ordering a Trabant and actually getting it, people who finally received one treated the car gently and were meticulous in maintaining and repairing it. The lifespan of an average Trabant was 28 years! Used Trabants would often fetch a higher price than new ones, as the former were available immediately, while the latter required the infamous long wait.
When the Berlin Wall fell thousands of East Germans drove their Trabants accross the border. Once in the West, the not-too-sentimental 'Ostdeutschen' immediately abandoned their Trabis, and re-united Germany's biggest issue with Trabants was how to get rid of them. The long-lasting and rustproof plastic car bodies are an environmental disaster. They do not decay nor are they in any way recyclable, and burning they release toxic pollutants in the air. In the early 1990s scientists were even searching for a couple of years for a type of microbe that might eat the cars, which were stacked up in junkyards.
But one man's trash is another's treasure, and history has been kind to the Trabi (the word means satellite). Like many icons, it has grown larger in death than it was in life. The wheezing, sputtering, clouds of eye-watering belching smoke car is now a pop-culture icon. Germans have a word for this: Ostalgie ("ost" means "east" in German). Trabis show up at car shows right next to bright red Ferraris, but in the US the fellows who are clustered around a Ferrari avoid to ask questions about the weird little East German car they've never seen before. The car's recent popularity may even bring a new version of the Trabi back to the market. The Trabant nT made its debut in 2009 as a concept for an electric car. So, perhaps, in a few years used Trabi nT's will be on the market, we'll just have to wait and see.
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The Trabant was intended to be the representative of the intermediate car category: A 2+2 seater vehicle with a small, easy-to-repair engine, lightweight construction with a little boot at the back. It was powered by a two-stroke (V2) pollution generator that maxed out at an ear-splitting 18-hp (or 26-hp "Luxe" model), and made of fiberglass-like Duroplast, reinforced with recycled fibers like cotton and wood. It's said that goats sometimes ate abandoned Trabants. Its max speed was 60 mph (more than enough for the bad roads in Eastern Europe), and it came in some pretty odd colors, such as diarrhea brown or traffic-light green.
Notoriously unreliable, Trabants smoked like an Iraqi oil fire and often lacked even the most basic of amenities, like brake lights or turn signals. The fuel was gravity-fed to the carburetor (no fuel pump). To keep it running one had to manually add oil to the fuel (like to an old lawnmower). Since there was no fuel gage the car had a dipstick with liter-marks that one could dip in the gas tank to see how much gas there is. The engine was air-cooled (no need for radiator, antifreeze or waterpump), and it had a direct ignition system (no need for distributor cap/rotor, etc.). Front end collisions often resulted in fires.
Nevertheless, Trabants were to be the perfect means of transportation for the whole family - a "people's car," as if the people didn't have enough to worry about.
They had to enter a lottery for the opportunity to purchase one of these cars; not to win a car, but to be allowed to pay approximately a year's salary for one. But since there was not much else to buy in the country, it didn't matter. If they won, the waiting time for their new Trabant was ten to fifteen years after ordering. Those who registered their name on the waiting list and paid for a new Trabant in 1973 never got one. Before their car was ready the Berlin Wall fell, Germany was reunified (in 1989), and production of the Trabant ceased in 1991.
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When the Berlin Wall fell thousands of East Germans drove their Trabants accross the border. Once in the West, the not-too-sentimental 'Ostdeutschen' immediately abandoned their Trabis, and re-united Germany's biggest issue with Trabants was how to get rid of them. The long-lasting and rustproof plastic car bodies are an environmental disaster. They do not decay nor are they in any way recyclable, and burning they release toxic pollutants in the air. In the early 1990s scientists were even searching for a couple of years for a type of microbe that might eat the cars, which were stacked up in junkyards.
But one man's trash is another's treasure, and history has been kind to the Trabi (the word means satellite). Like many icons, it has grown larger in death than it was in life. The wheezing, sputtering, clouds of eye-watering belching smoke car is now a pop-culture icon. Germans have a word for this: Ostalgie ("ost" means "east" in German). Trabis show up at car shows right next to bright red Ferraris, but in the US the fellows who are clustered around a Ferrari avoid to ask questions about the weird little East German car they've never seen before. The car's recent popularity may even bring a new version of the Trabi back to the market. The Trabant nT made its debut in 2009 as a concept for an electric car. So, perhaps, in a few years used Trabi nT's will be on the market, we'll just have to wait and see.
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Monday, June 18, 2012
Prague - A living fairytale
Prague is like a living fairytale. Lovers all over the world are in a hurry to Paris, but dreamers, poets, eternal children, will be always be attracted by Prague! And with every passed second they fall more and more in love with this beautiful city.
Prague has fairy tales for all tastes. Do you want to plunge into the eerie magic of the Leo Perutz and Franz Kafka novels? Go to the Jewish quarter, where, behind a stone wall, live the wisdom of synagogues, and legends, legends, legends ... About the Emperor Rudolph, the banker Maizel and Esther, his beautiful his wife. About the wise Rabbi Loewe and the book “Sifirot”. It seems that every stone there is philosophical.
Or do you like castles, palaces, churches and cathedrals better? Rise your head and there it is: The Royal palace Hradcany with its majestic Gothic Saint Vitus cathedral on a high hill surrounded by ramparts. Renaissance palaces, baroque curls of the Virgin Mary church, the silence of Strahov monastery, steep streets running from castle hill, tiny houses attached to the fortress wall. Every house is unique and for each you have a desire to settle down to grow roses in tiny gardens. Ladders, frescoes, coats of arms, quiet alleys, iron lamps, the gold of leaves underfoot
Or are you inspired the most when watching the slow moving waters of a river? Go to the Karlov bridge, guarded by time-darkened stone saints. It's said they can fulfill wishes, and each has its own specialization. Sun spots are playing on the quiet surface of the Vltava river, a flock of swans gracefully accepts food, the watermill wheel is slowly rotating.
Ah! You're more of a gourmet person! Fine! Cafes and restaurants – you can find lots and lots of them in Prague. Sizzling meat with herbs, dumplings, and crispy fried potatoes exude their dizzying aroma! Want to drink it with beer? There's plenty of beer, light or dark, golden, foamy, fresh and incredibly tasty.
It seems that everywhere you go in Prague you open a curtain to some perfect fairytale scene. Prague's beauty and flair will forever remain in your memory.
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Prague has fairy tales for all tastes. Do you want to plunge into the eerie magic of the Leo Perutz and Franz Kafka novels? Go to the Jewish quarter, where, behind a stone wall, live the wisdom of synagogues, and legends, legends, legends ... About the Emperor Rudolph, the banker Maizel and Esther, his beautiful his wife. About the wise Rabbi Loewe and the book “Sifirot”. It seems that every stone there is philosophical.
Or do you like castles, palaces, churches and cathedrals better? Rise your head and there it is: The Royal palace Hradcany with its majestic Gothic Saint Vitus cathedral on a high hill surrounded by ramparts. Renaissance palaces, baroque curls of the Virgin Mary church, the silence of Strahov monastery, steep streets running from castle hill, tiny houses attached to the fortress wall. Every house is unique and for each you have a desire to settle down to grow roses in tiny gardens. Ladders, frescoes, coats of arms, quiet alleys, iron lamps, the gold of leaves underfoot
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Ah! You're more of a gourmet person! Fine! Cafes and restaurants – you can find lots and lots of them in Prague. Sizzling meat with herbs, dumplings, and crispy fried potatoes exude their dizzying aroma! Want to drink it with beer? There's plenty of beer, light or dark, golden, foamy, fresh and incredibly tasty.
It seems that everywhere you go in Prague you open a curtain to some perfect fairytale scene. Prague's beauty and flair will forever remain in your memory.
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Saturday, June 16, 2012
Prague - Walking in the footsteps of kings
Why is Prague such a tourist magnet? What makes her so alluring and so successful in captivating everyone who walks through her streets?
There are many answers to these questions and they nearly all agree in one respect: the atmosphere and beauty of Prague arises not only from the poetic mixture of artistic monuments of different eras, but also from the life which flows within her and which itself carries memories of times gone by.
The cobblestone streets of Prague have been walked on for hundreds of years - they are made for people not cars. Walking the Czech capital by foot it is easy to pop into a church, a museum or a cozy pub for a refreshing beer. It is an interactive history lesson in which the buildings, monuments, streets and personalities tell the captivating glorious and tragic story of a city through time.
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Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Little Mother Prague
Looking at Prague today it’s easy to forget that just 20 years ago Czechoslovakia emerged from the fall of the Iron Curtain with a once-jailed dissident as president, inspiring the world. Kafka’s oft-cited line about Little Mother (in Czech: Matièka) Prague having claws is no joke. The city's old and beautiful architecture is also alluded to in names like the “city of a hundred spires” or “golden Prague”.
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Sunday, June 10, 2012
Prague - A symphony in stone
Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic, is well known for its Gothic style Cathedral of Saint Vitus, the Tyn Cathedral, also known as Church of our Lady, St. Nicholas Church on Old Town Square, and all of the beautiful towers, spires, and churches. The city's magical atmosphere is produced through the coexistence of the buildings, sculptures, and monuments of ten centuries. A "symphony in stone", Prague boasts architectural styles ranging from the Renaissance and Baroque right up to the art nouveau and cubist styles of the 20th, and hypermodern buildings of the 21st century.
At the beginning of the 19th century, the Czech mathematician Bernard Bolzano counted 103 towers and spires in Prague on all of the cathedrals and buildings. That's why Prague was called "The golden city of one hundred spires." Now it is estimated to be about five hundred towers and spires, so Prague is now called "The golden city of five hundred spires." Some people say that there are one thousand spires in the city of Prague, but I didn’t count them so I can't confirm that.
Under communism the city was one of Europe's best-kept secrets, more renowned in the West for the images of Czech civilians standing up to Soviet tanks as the 1968 Prague Spring came to an end. But since the 1989 Velvet Revolution, Prague has emerged as one of Europe's prime destinations.
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Friday, June 08, 2012
Czech soldier on guard at Prague Castle
While walking through the Castle in Prague, everyone certainly meets men in uniforms standing at the main entrance or patrolling in other places. They can also always be seen close to the Czech President during important politic actions. These men belong to the Castle Guard: Armed forces providing the safety of the Czech Republic.
The foundation of the Czechoslovak Republic on October 28, 1918 was the initial impulse for the establishment of a unit to guard the seat of the President at Prague Castle. Today the elite Prague Castle Guard force is a solid operation. The unit consists of 608 Soldiers - 86 Officers, 110 Warrant Officers, and 412 Sergeants. This includes a Security Company and Transport, Motorcycle, and Dog Handling Platoons. The Guard weapon is the model 52/57 nickel coated rifle, the backup team carries Model 61 Sub-machine guns and Model 59 MGs.
The life of a Castle Guard soldier is in no way easy, starting with difficult training and ending for example with performing tasks for security of the President Czech Republic or a long-hour-duty which includes guarding the main entrance of the Prague Castle on either side of the castle gate, motionless, in any weather.
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The foundation of the Czechoslovak Republic on October 28, 1918 was the initial impulse for the establishment of a unit to guard the seat of the President at Prague Castle. Today the elite Prague Castle Guard force is a solid operation. The unit consists of 608 Soldiers - 86 Officers, 110 Warrant Officers, and 412 Sergeants. This includes a Security Company and Transport, Motorcycle, and Dog Handling Platoons. The Guard weapon is the model 52/57 nickel coated rifle, the backup team carries Model 61 Sub-machine guns and Model 59 MGs.
The life of a Castle Guard soldier is in no way easy, starting with difficult training and ending for example with performing tasks for security of the President Czech Republic or a long-hour-duty which includes guarding the main entrance of the Prague Castle on either side of the castle gate, motionless, in any weather.
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Wednesday, June 06, 2012
Golden Window - St Vitus Cathedral Prague
The main south tower of the St. Vitus Cathedral was built in several building phases and amongst other towers and steeples in Prague the tower is recognized as the "Queen". The tower with square ground plan (14 m x 14 m) rises up to a height of 55 m.
The walls of the first belfry are decorated with ruptured cuspidate windows. The large window situated in the south facia of the tower is covered with a sumptuous goldleaf window screen and, above it, the letter "R", monogram of Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor.
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The walls of the first belfry are decorated with ruptured cuspidate windows. The large window situated in the south facia of the tower is covered with a sumptuous goldleaf window screen and, above it, the letter "R", monogram of Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor.
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