Only in Prague by Duncan J.D. Smith

6 Contents Holešovice &The Northern Suburbs (Prague 7, 8, 9, 14, 18, 19, 20) 31 A Chapel’s Moving History 87 32 All Things Technical 89 33 Emperor Rudolph’s IncredibleWater Tunnel 91 34 Marold’s Mighty Panorama 93 35 Exhibitions Old and New 96 36 Prague by Tram 98 37 The Horses of Modern Troy 101 Josefov & Old Town (Staré Město) (Prague 1 – East bank) 38 Along the Paris Boulevard 103 39 AQuiet Gothic Corner 106 40 The OldestWorking Synagogue in Europe 108 41 The Jewish Stones Speak 112 42 In Franz Jackdaw Square 115 43 The House at the Stone Bell 118 44 The Minorites and the Mummified Hand 120 45 Monuments of Corruption 122 46 A Brush with Cubism 124 47 Prague’s Unique Astronomical Clock 127 48 The Habsburgs’ View of Heaven 130 49 The SecretWorld of the Knights of the Cross 134 50 Triumphalism in Stucco and Stone 136 51 Subterranean Prague 140 52 The Headless Knight of St. Anne’s 143 53 Moccasins, Mapucho Columns and Bamboo Maps 145 54 Bethlehem’s Hussite Martyr 147 New Town (Nové Město), Žižkov & The Eastern Suburbs (Prague 1 – East bank, 2, 3, 10, 15, 21, 22) 55 A Miniature Prague in Paper 150 56 One of the Biggest Horses in theWorld 152 57 The Day of All Souls 154 58 A Modernist Noah’s Ark 157 59 The Art Nouveau Railway Station 159 60 Re-using Prague’s Communist Legacy 161 61 The Concrete Picture Palace 164 62 The Unfinished Cathedral of the Virgin Mary 166 63 Some Gems of Le Style Moderne 168 64 Where the Velvet Revolution Began 171 65 Coffee, Absinth and Opium 174