So you this town’s ever seen.
Tell why you just need to spend a weekend in Prague. In the weekly category Radio MAXIMUM read about the best parts of the world.
Prague – a favorite place of our tourists. This ancient city is the capital of the Czech state since the tenth century, and to this day his churches, towers and palaces majestically above the banks of the Vltava river. Hradcany, lesser town, Old and New town passed to tourists far and wide. But we will take you to unusual places in the Golden city.
For example, here is one of the oldest film studios in the world, Barrandov Studios was founded in the early 1930s. the Idea to build near Prague “dream factory” came Vaclav Havel, first name of the first President of post-Communist Czech Republic. Your “Hollywood” the Czechs built with an eye on Hollywood American. Even the location chosen seems – Barrandov rocks in the vicinity of Prague, they had to recall the famous Hollywood hills near Los Angeles. The efforts of the founding fathers was not in vain.
Since the mid-1990s, the Studio practically became a Hollywood branch, its pavilions was filmed a good third of the top grossing films of the last 15 years – from “Mission impossible” and “Casino Royale” to “van Helsing” and “Chronicles of Narnia”.
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