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Bruce Stangeland's Photographs from June, 2007 Elderhostel Trip to Prague and Budapest, with a stopover in Wengen, Switzerland
 
Part I Prague

Budapest - Part II   |   Wengen - Part III
 
 
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	Lapidarium in Prague Exhibition Ground of 1891		Gate House (with sgraffito walls) in Prague Exhibition Ground of 1891
	The Industrial Palace at the 1891 Prague Exhibition Ground, behind the Gate House on the left and Lapidarium on the right		Night view of the Industrial Palace at the 1891 Exhibition Ground - Prague
	Church of St. Nicholas in Old Town - Prague		Church of Our Lady before Tyn and horse carriages in Old Town Square - Prague
	Interior of Church of Our Lady before Tyn - Old Town Square - Prague		House sign near Old Town Square - Prague
	Black Madonna cubist house near Old Town Square - Prague		Municipal House in Old Town - Prague's most prominent art nouveau building
	Cafe inside Municipal House, decorated by Alfons Mucha - Old Town, Prague		Vendors on the Charles Bridge, with the Little Quarter Bridge Towers in the background - Prague
	View of Charles Bridge and Smetana museum across Vltava (Moldau) river - Prague See my painting of this scene		"Dancing House" office building and Jiraskuv bridge - Prague
	Entering the locks on the Vltava River - Prague		Baroque towers on refectory of Strahov monastery - Prague See my painting of this scene
	Guards and statues of Fighting Giants by Ignaz Platzer at entrance to Prague Castle		Statue of Tomas G. Masaryk, 1st president of the Czechoslovak Republic (near Schwarzenberg Palace) - Prague
	Street musicians near Prague castle		sgraffito walls (scratched through different colored layers of plaster) of Schwarzenberg Palace - Prague
	Inside St. Vitus's cathedral, Prague castle		Stained glass window in St. Vitus's cathedral - Prague castle
	Art nouveau stained glass window in St. Vitus's cathedral - Prague castle		Descending Jirska Street in the rain - Prague castle See my painting of this scene
	Descending old steps from Prague castle		Memorial rose garden at Lidice, a farm villiage leveled by the Nazis in 1942
	"Memorial to the Children Victims of the War" - 82 children of Lidice, most of whom died in Nazi concentration camps.		Remains of Horak family farm house, leveled in 1942 in Lidice. In the distance is a memorial cross erected by the USSR
	Ghetto museum in Terezin Town Hall		Memorial graveyard at Terezin concentration camp
	"Arbeit macht frei" ("Work brings freedom") sign at entrance to Terezin concentration camp		Houses near Exhibition Ground
	Old-New synagogue and Jewish Town hall - Prague		Old Jewish cemetery - Prague
	Pinkas synagogue - Jewish quarter, Prague		Astronomical clock and calendar dial on Prague's old town hall
	The Staromestsky Dixieland jazz band in Old Town Square - Prague		St. Vitus's cathedral and Prague castel from Legli bridge, near Prague National Theater
	National Theater - Prague		St. Vitus's cathedral and Plague column in Little Quarter - Prague
	Church interior - St. Nicholas of Little Quarter - Prague		Old Town bridge tower on Charles Bridge - Prague
	Statue of Charles IV (king and Holy Roman emperor in mid 14th cent.) in Knights of the Cross Square - Prague		Theresa Hall in Brevnow monastery - Prague
	A monk in church of St. Margaret, Brevnov monastery - Prague		Tomb of Antonin Dvorak in Vysehrad cemetery - Prague
	Tomb of Bedrich Smetana in Vysehrad cemetery - Prague		Bridges over Vltava river, and St. Vitus's and Prague castle from Vysehrad Park - Prague
	11th cent. romanesque Rotunda of St. Martin's in Vysehrad park - Prague See my painting of this scene		A hammer kalvier played by Mozart in Mozart Museum - Bertramka
	Entrance to Mucha Museum (art nouveu) - Prague		Painting a memorial brick to help finance shelter for mentally handicapped in Prague
	Four statues of Hercules by Matthias Braun (1714) at entrance to Clam-Gallas Palace - Prague		Prague Castle, St. Vitus's cathedral, and Charles Bridge - Prague
	Charles Bridge and excursion boat on Vltava River - Prague		Watercolor painter at Manesuv Bridge - Prague See my painting of this scene
	Boats at Manesuv Bridge - Prague		Folk dancers/singers in Cerny Kohout restaurant
	Musicians in Cerny Kohout restaurant		Elderhostel group photo outside Cerny Kohout restaurant