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            i Vojan Park
          Quiet shady paths
          have been laid out                         PRAGUE CASTLE &
                                                     HRADČANY
           under the apple
          trees of this former
          monastery garden.
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                            E                      See Central Prague Map pp16–17
                            Ř             Ostriches
                            Á      A restaurant and hotel
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                            I       have kept the sign of
                            M         a seller of ostrich
                            E              plumes.
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                                                      r . Charles Bridge
                                                The approach to this magnificent
                                                   14th-century bridge, with its
                                                Baroque statues, passes under an
                                                    arch below a Gothic tower.



                                       Čertovka (the
                                       Devil’s Stream)



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             N A   K        Lichtenstein
                            Palace
                                                      The Grand Priory Mill
                                                         has had its wheel
                                                      meticulously restored,
                                                     though it now turns very
                                                       slowly in the sluggish
                                                      water of the Čertovka,
                                                        the former millrace.



                                             q . Kampa Island
                                             This 19th-century painting by
                                             Soběslav Pinkas shows boys playing
                                             on Kampa. The island’s park is still a
                                             popular place for children.




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