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Prague, Czech Republic’s capital, has become one of the most visited and fascinating destinations in Europe. Those who decide to plunge into their entrails will be enthralled with its picturesque architecture and its innumerable cultural and historical attractions that invite you to visit this city carefully.
Also known as The City of Towers, Prague is divided into different districts and in 1992 the historic center was designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. In undertaking the visit to the city, it is inevitable to start the tour of Prague Castle, considered the largest Gothic castle in the world. Within the complex, you can see the St. Vitus Cathedral, Royal Palace and Golden Lane, full of craft shops. After touring the castle, it is advisable to walk around Mala Strana, a neighborhood of steep streets and Baroque palaces dating back to times of old traveler. The Old Town Square is unavoidable to meet elsewhere, there can feel the living history of the city and that was where political life was developing. In turn, home to numerous churches and City Hall, headquarters of the public administration, with its astronomical clock in the early fifteenth century and has become the symbol of the Prague Post.
This beautiful Belgian tradition of “carpet squares” with flowers, literally, can be seen in the Czech Republic next week, more precisely in the Old Town Square in Prague.
Is that the Office of Tourism of the Czech Republic reported that between March and September 5, 2010, florists distinguished line the Old Town Square in Prague, it will create a “carpet” of flowers on it singular and representative European public space.
The truth is that the exhibition will be inaugurated on September 3 at 18 hours, and all tourists that are near the area are invited to witness it.
On this occasion, florists held in Prague a specially designed floral carpet, for which use about 150 000 begonias in the wide range of colors, which will be spread over an area of 500 square meters in the square of the old city.
And as we said a moment ago, this show is taken from a Belgian tradition, by which, since 1971, every two years, held in Belgium in the tradition of the Floral Carpet. The first was created in the city of Brussels.
Since then, every two years, designers florists create a tapestry in the Grand Place square in Belgium, one of the largest and most beautiful in this country and throughout Europe. They use the begonias, being very pretty flowers and various colors, which gives the design a particular aspect and innovative at a time.
Begonias that have appeared first in the area of Ghent, back in 1860.
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Better known under the pseudonym of “green roof of Europe” or “lungs of Europe ‘, spreads along the border of the Czech Republic to Austria and Germany.
Her arms extend from the river valley Chodská Úhlava, to the Port of Vysoký Brod, and are approximately about 120 kilómetre. Šumava are home to numerous deep forests, areas of glacial lakes, plus all decorated a whole wild world wide.
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