Page 84 - traveling73 eng

HOTEL EMBLEM
Contemporary art, illustrations… can be found
in every corner of the hotel. For example, the
5 x 1.3-metre piece “Monument”, consisting
of a series of illustrations displayed across
each of the hotel’s five floors, created by
illustrators Tomski & Polanski on a floating
island full of fantasy that evokes the magical
city of Prague.
Prague brushstrokes
Just a few steps from the hotel lies Old Town
Square, presided over by the monument to
Jan Hus, a key figure in the Bohemian Re-
formation. The Gothic Town Hall in the same
square houses, on its southern wall, one of
the most complete and beautiful astronomical
clocks in Europe, whose most impressive fea-
ture may well be its astronomical dial, shaped
like an astrolabe with a zodiac ring, a rotation
ring, and the moon and the sun prevailing over
earth and sky, as if to suggest that they hold
sway over everything.
And just a few steps further, you reach the
romantic, stately, mysterious Charles Bridge,
the oldest of the 18 bridges that cross the Vlta-
va River, dating back to 1380. From here, you
Detail of the monument to Jan Hus. Below, the Church of Our Lady before Tyn Prague Astronomical Clock
84 -