Pissing Statue and other Prague, Czech Republic Off The Beaten Path Tips

In the Cihelna street in Mala Strana, you'll find a very extraordinairy statue in a little square. It are two bronze statues, clearly both male. The statues are created by artist David Cerny.

The gentlemen are peeing all the time and if you send an SMS to a certain number, they will "write" your text by peeing the letters in the water. The men hold and steer their *** realisticly and follow all commands.

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At Ujezd, close to the entrance of the Petrin Funicolar, I saw this nice memorial statue. On the stairs towards the top of the Petrin Hill there are standing about eight men made of bronze. In the beginning the men look like normal persons, but the more you look up, the less is left of them. Clearly showing the toll people have to pay during wartime.

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In one of the innersquares of the Clementinum Cloister, I saw this nice statue lying in the grass. It's a blue lady lying down with the "European" yellow stars around the head like an auriol. In 2004 Czech Republic joined the European Union, so the colours are hot here.

In the innersquares there are more extraordinairy statues to be found. Litterly to be found, because some are high on top of a wall or behind glass.

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When you are renting a hydrocycle, or get of the water level of the Vltava in any different way, you should really pay attention to the Stare Mesto side of the river, close to the Charles Bridge. Here you'll find countless birds having a good time in one of the few quite place in the city. Duck, gulls, coots. You'll all find them here. Special? In a big city like Prague I think it is.

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A very nice daytrip from Prague is a visit to Kutna Hora. This is a small city with 22.000 inhabitants, at 60 kilometres east from Prague, about an hour driving.

Kutna Hora is one of the nicest town in Bohemia, with its Medieval Citycentre. The streets are narrow, full of curves and wonderful to take a walk through. Then there are two big central squares with restaurants and cafe's and nice buildings around them and there are some important attractions to visit.

An impressive line of religious, baroc statues lead towards the Barbara Cathedral. This was built between 1388 and 1558 and really is a beautiful building. In a very own gothical style, the church rises high above all other buildings in the city. Inside there is a lot to see, but the outside stays the must impressive of all.

In the centre itself are several buildings that are dedicated to the Silver industry of Kutna Hora. The presence of silver mines nearby made the city to wealthy centre in its region, and still is important. The rest of the centre has lots of other old buildings. Enough to fill a day.

And the most extraordinairy building in Kutna Hora definitely is the Bonehouse of Sedlec. This is a very strange chapel belonging to an old cloister. The interior is completely decorated with bones, from over 40.000 people. The bones come from the graveyard nearby where lots of people wanted to be buried because they believed it was sacred ground. Because of the Pest epidemia though, it became too full. In 1870, when the complex was renovated, the owner decided to used the countless bones to decorate the interior. Artist Frantisek Rint made the church into what it is now: an unbelieveble place where death and beauty are very close to each other.

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