Prague is an amazing tourist town, comparable to Disney World or Las Vegas, that looks like it has been ruled for the last 700 years, beginning with Good King Walt the First and continuing today with his heir King Walt the Over the Top, by the Disney Dynasty.
Here, for example is the 15th Century Gothic church of Snow White’s evil stepmother.
And why not some Kafka Kandy, sold in the house where Kafka died?
And then there’s the clock.
The astronomical clock dates to 1410, although the various animatronic figures date to the 1600s, 1700s, and 1800s. But if you were a peasant, it would have been about as relatively entertaining as the Pirates of the Caribbean ride is today.
You can see why Central Europeans don’t like Putin’s war on Ukrainian cities. If Europeans don’t blow up each others’ cities up in wars (e.g., Prague survived World War II with only fairly marginal damage), they can wind up with some amazing stuff after a few centuries.
As I think I've told you, Lisbon and Porto in Portugal and the smaller cities across the land all look like they came from Disney Inc. -- every old town town has a collection of 500 year old churches and Moorish and Christian forts on the highest hilltop, plus some Roman or even Etruscan ruins. It's why I encourage Trump to conquer Portugal instead of Greenland. https://clips.substack.com/p/dear-king-donald-buy-portugal-instead?utm_source=publication-search
Historian A.J.P. Taylor visited the Czech president Benes in Prague in 1946: “Taking me to the window, he said, ‘Is it not beautiful? The only unspoilt city in central Europe, and all my doing.’ When I raised my eyebrows, he added: ‘By accepting the Munich settlement I saved Prague and my people from destruction.’”