Prague’s Past Beauty Still Radiates Today

Prague has been called the City of a Hundred Spires, and among the most venerable are the ones perched atop Prague Castle and St. Vitus Cathedral. The Prague Castle complex covers 110 acres in the heart of the capital city of the Czech Republic. Prague City Tourism/TNS

By Mary Ann Anderson From Tribune News Service

If there is such a thing, I’m a church tourist. When I travel, I revel in visiting churches, and, when I can, and even if I don’t understand the language, attending services. Certainly I don’t travel to see only churches, but the mere act of being an occasional church tourist has led me to visit spectacular cathedrals around the world, including the glittering gold-leafed ornateness of Iglesia de la Compania de Jesus in Quito, the stained-glass majesty of Cathedral Basilica of St. John the Baptist in Savannah and Normandy’s Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen, whose beauty inspired several paintings by Claude Monet. Among the most memorable, the most truly impressive, is St. Vitus, wrapped within the walls of Prague Castle, in the capital city of Prague in the Czech Republic.