Download or read book Prague and Its Environs (Classic Reprint) written by Charles Bellman and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-03 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Prague and Its Environs Prague enjoyed now peace nearly for hundred years (till during which time the wounds, inflicted by war, were healed and the city throve materially. Architecture and sculpture began to flourish. In all public places we meet with specimens of the ba roque style (strahov-church, cupola of the church of the Order of the Cross, Mary-statue on the Altstadter square etc.) In the years 1679 and 1680 a plague raged in Prague, which carried ofl' about people. In the year 1689 a great fire de stroyed the Jewish town and a large part of the Altstadt and Neustadt. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.