Monday, April 5, 2010 (Part 4):
The Prague Castle complex is a huge collection of buildings, and we did not go in to all of them. But one of the places we wanted to see was the Royal Palace. Portions of the Palace were built at different times, with the earliest section having been built in the 12th Century. The rooms are all extremely large. There were few furnishings in any of the rooms, so we learned of their historic use from information sheets that we found in each room.
And it was in the Royal Palace that I was fooled by the jewels on display. In the main hall, there were several large glass cases that contained a crown, a scepter and an orb. We were a
ble to get really close and I started taking some pictures. Then Katherine pointed out (based on the information in our guide book) that these jewels were fakes! How ridiculous. Who wants to see fakes? I don't get it. And I was embarrassed that I had been so excited about the pictures I had taken. Silly me.
One of the rooms in the Palace had a really neat ceiling decorated with the crests of the clerks who worked in here, in the rooms where the "land rolls" were stored. The land rolls, as the name suggests, recorded property ownership, and they were among the most important records maintained by the ruling government.
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