Charlie bridge: a couple will go to kiss the bridge (Figure)

"In the morning, I walked slowly on the bridge, no one knows what I want. And then I heard the Vltava river rapids in the impact of Charlie bridge voice......"

-- Smetana

"Kissing bridge"

The origin of a story of the city without a river, where there is a river you will have beautiful bridge. Flowing Smetana notes of the Vltava River, in the north or a quietly flowing streams, toPragueBecame a surge high and sweep forward, Bibo sparkling river.

Prague

18 of every kind of the bridge across the river, such as the rainbow as chain, embrace the surging North River, cross-strait Gothic, Baroque and Renaissance buildings are connected into a whole, forming a very beautiful city scenery picture. Among them, the most famous is the Charlie bridge, which was the first bridge in Prague built in the Vltava River, dating back more than 650 years of history.

The Charlie bridge on the eastern side of the "old bridge"

All those who come to Prague almost not to walk on the Charlie bridge, the Charlie bridge is almost synonymous with Prague, the seat of the old stone bridge connecting Eastern Europe two blocks of Prague the most beautiful in the Vltava River, many from the old town square, wanted to cross the bridge to the Prague Castle River, finally is the bridge to retain.

The west side of a high and one low two gate

The Charlie bridge, a total length of 516 meters, 9.5 meters wide, a total of 16 piers, the bridge for the masonry structure, not a nail a. Founded in early 1357, finished until fifteenth Century. Any city can be so extravagant, to build a bridge for nearly 200 years, perhaps only in Prague. Both ends of the bridge stands the Gothic gate, on the east side of an "old bridge", the West has two different sizes of the gatehouse.

Picture / text:Come fromMany squeakSina blog