Bye great City

As we say good-bye to this great city situated on the Vltava River in central Bohemia, we wish we had more time to explore this city which has been the political, cultural and economic center of the Czech state for more than 1100 years. Prague suffered considerably less damage during World War II than some other major cities in the region, allowing most of its historic architecture to stay true to its original form. So unlike so many modern cities which are are more like monuments to money and power Prague seems like it was built to honour art, literature and even music. It contains one of the world's most pristine and varied collections of architecture, from Art Nouveau, Renaissance, Baroque, Cubist, Gothic, Neo-Classical and lastly the Ultra-modern. Of course after a few modern buildings, like the dancing house, were built the public response was a great wave of historical preservation projects ... nothing like the new to make you remember what you liked about the old.... old and new we loved how they blended in this great city...