My Saturday stroll took me across Charles Bridge and over into the Zizkov area where I found a crumbling if elegant tenement with a gorgeous detail. Somehow the graffiti and the wood reinforcing the frame only seems to enhance the effect.
Charles Bridge was named for King Charles IV who had it built in the mid-15th C but it wasn't completed until many decades later. It wasn't until 1841 that alternate means of crossing the Vltava River were conceived so the bridge was a critical route connecting the Old Town, Prague Castle and adjacent areas. The bridge is decorated by some 30 early 18th C statues, most of them baroque.
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