Artful Prague

Perhaps we visited different cities. Prague actually looks like mile after mile of drab and depressing communist apartment blocks, with the exception of the touristy little Old Town part. Which is not to say it ain't a neat city. But it is ugly, ugly. Did the author not see the ugly broadcast tower dominating the city? Just to reinforce the ugliness they covered it in large crawling faceless baby sculptures? (really!)

-- lonelynerd25
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Well, I think you are wrong. Yes there are large areas of the City that are covered by panelaks --the prefab high rises (actually in Prague they generally look much better than those in other Eastern European cities.) But the amazing thing about Prague is that actually the historic architecture spreads over a very wide area of the City and reflects the art nouveau style or later Czech cubist and modernist styles of the early 20th century that Emily Yoffe describes. This is because the pre-war (WWII) population of Prague was almost 1 million and not far short of what it is today. In addition there are lots of m2 of villa neighborhoods -- also from pre-WWII. So if what you saw were drab high rises, unlucky you.

-- Czechmate1
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