Christmas Break in Moravia

I spent this year’s Christmas in a cottage belonging to my mum’s partner. Close to Vsetín, the cottage promises to be a good base for trips around Moravia and Silesia, but of course since it was Christmas, I spent most of the week with my mum and my sisters. In the few days I was in Moravia, I only made one short excursion to Olomouc to hand over a few things that one of my friends from Kenya did not manage to fit in her luggage. I had been hoping to see the city’s Holy Trinity Column and its historical centre, but the Holy Trinity Column was undergoing extensive renovations and was entirely covered in tarp. We walked around only a little: it was the first clear day after weeks of cloudiness, so of course the temperature plummeted way below zero, which was a shock to my pampered system. The highlight of my quick visit was the city’s astronomical clock, refashioned in the style of socialist realism in the 1950s to depict working-class people instead of saints and kings. Its centrepiece is a golden rooster.    

The ceiling of the Church of Saint Michael in Olomouc
The entrance of Saint Michael's
A view of the altar
Olomouc Town Hall
A wall fixed with Lego bricks
Caesar's Fountain
The Astronomical Clock of Olomouc
The statue of Hercules slaying the Hydra
The statues of Arion's Fountain
A golden deer on the Upper Square
A view of the Town Hall
A black horse on a house facade
The Cathedral of Saint Wenceslas
A facade with two statues
The tympanum of the cathedral
A reliquary of Jan Sarkander
The Archdiocesan Museum
The Three Sunflowers House in Vsetín
Another house in Vsetín
A tympanum above Loreta Street in Prague
Stairs going down a tunnel
Two busts above Carmelite Street
The same
A balcony on Grape Street
A house with a golden sun
Three caryatids on Janáček's Embankment
The watermill by Kampa
The facade of Aurus Hotel

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