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Cake day: June 23rd, 2024

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  • The church is a small part of the complex. The “Mordor of Prague” is the Emmaus Monastery, whose 17th century Baroque towers (on the otherwise mostly Gothic building) were destroyed by American bombardment meant to target Dresden, and the spires replaced them during a rare Communist-era (1964-1968) reconstruction of a church building. During the time, a Brutalist “mushroom” was added into the monastery park (thankfully too short to be seen from the river), and the Architecture and Urban Planning Centre is located there now.









  • Many streets are not like this, unfortunately. On some sidewalks it’s impossible to pass a person in the other direction just so that cars can drive and park all the way to Prague Castle. At one spot, the sidewalk is completely blocked by a vertical “citylight” billboard, thankfully there’s a dirt path around. And Magistrála (inner city highway) was the biggest planning failure, ruining valuable land around the main train station and dozens of streets. Also, there’s at least two road-legal, almost stock Cybertrucks for some reason. In short, Prague is one of the most car-brained cities despite the very dense tram network. This is unlikely to change in the next 4 years, since the Minister of Transport and Minister of Environment is a Motorist party member now (one person because the party couldn’t produce another that would pass a basic sanity check).