We passed by Malostranske Namesti at noon and was stuck in a traffic which was unusual on a Sunday. It turned out there was a ceremony ( we even heard a marching band playing) to celebrate the placing of domes on Malostranska Beseda. There was a small crowd that gathered in the parking lot beside [...]

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New episode from my fave ‘name the city’ series. Lately I travel to the same destination over and over again, so I dug out an old one from my archive. These pictures were taken in the years 2005 and 2006, so these days the location might look a bit different. And since it is very [...]

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I had a few visitors from Asia who were visiting the National Museum last week. I wasn’t able to go with them because it was a weekday, a working day for me.  While at work, I got a SMS from one of them asking me what happened on August 21, 1968. They informed me that [...]

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The subject of my “Name the city - part 2” is Stephansdom or the St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna. This church is dedicated to St. Stephen, also known as the patron of the bishop’s cathedral in Passau.

The facade of the church.
As soon as you come up from the Stephansplatz subway station, this grand Romanesque and [...]

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