Презентация, доклад к уроку лингвострановедения по английскому языку Архитектурные достопримечательности Европы. Прага.

by the student
from the group 9A-31
Suhobokov Evgeniy

dial, dates back to 1410 when it was made by clockmaker Mikulas of Kadan and Jan Sindel, the latter a professor of mathematics and astronomy at Charles University. The first recorded mention of the clock was on 9 October 1410.

Prague astronomical clock

the hour, these represent four things that were despised at the time of the clock's making. From left to right in the photographs, the first is Vanity, represented by a figure admiring himself in a mirror. Next, the miser holding a bag of gold represents greed or usury. Across the clock stands Death, a skeleton that strikes the time upon the hour. Finally there is a figure representing lust and earthly pleasures. On the hour, the skeleton rings the bell and immediately all other figures shake their heads, side to side, signifying their unreadiness "to go."

in 1880. The original is stored in the Prague City Museum.

1344 on the site of an earlier 10th century rotunda. Its first builders, Matthias of Arras and later Peter Parler, built the chancel with a ring of chapels - St. Wenceslas Chapel, the Golden Portal and the lower section of the main steeple. However, it took almost six centuries to complete, with the final phase of construction in the period 1873-1929.

Saint Vitus Cathedral

the biggest and most important church in the country. Located within Prague Castle and containing the tombs of many Bohemian kings and Holy Roman Emperors, the cathedral is under the ownership of the Czech government as part of the Prague Castle complex. Cathedral dimensions are 124 Ч 60 meters, the main tower is 96.5 meters high, front towers 82 m, arch height 33.2 m.

of St. Wenceslas, where the relics of the saint are kept. The room was built by Peter Parler between 1344 and 1364 and has a ribbed vault. The lower part of the walls are wonderfully decorated with over 1300 semi-precious stones and paintings about the Passion of Christ dating from the original decoration of the chapel in 1372–1373.

the height of the Big South Tower 96.5 meters. On the western side of the tower two 82-meter high neo-Gothic stone tower with 10-meter round window in the form of rosettes between them. Three portals of the cathedral are richly decorated with sculptures, stone and bronze reliefs.

Republic, on the confluence of the rivers Ohre and Tepla, approximately 130 km west of Prague.

Karlovy Vary

1350 Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor and Czech king during his stay in Loket organized an expedition into the surrounding forests, where on the site of the alleged spring established a spa called Horke Lazne u Lokte.

known for international celebrities visiting for spa treatment.

Festival, which is one of the oldest in the world and has become one of Europe's major film events. And also for the popular Czech liqueur Becherovka. The glass manufacturer Moser Glass is located in Karlovy Vary.