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Prague’s mysterious standing stone is a link to the past
A standing stone called the Petrified Servant has been in place for perhaps thousands of years There is a mysterious reddish-grey standing stone on the outskirts of Prague, and it is far…
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The Black Sun shines darkly over a Baroque doorway in Prague
A building near Old Town Square with the image of a black sun shows a hint of the alchemy woven in Prague’s past. In alchemy, everything has its counterpart, its mirror image.…
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The boy who turned to stone, a legend of Prague’s Old Town
One statue is not what it seems, according to a popular Old Town legend. Most old churches have some stone decorations on the roof, and the overwhelming majority are just fanciful sculptures…
