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The Charles Bridge in Prague! Prague

The Charles Bridge, Karlův most, is the bridge that connects the old district of Prague in Mala Strana, Lesser Town.

Built in the fourteenth century, stone, It replaces an old stone bridge, which replaced the wooden bridge. it will be the only bridge over the Vltava until 1741.

Called stone bridge, it will not take the name of Charles in 1870. Built of sandstone blocks, it measures 516 m long and 9.5 m wide and is based on sixteen pillars.

At this hour, there's really not a lot of people!

On the model of the bridge of St. Angelo in Rome, each pillar is surmounted by a statue or a sculpture group that evokes the religious history of the city or country

During XVII and XVIII ^e th centuries, Catholics add 75 statues along the entire length of the bridge. Today copies took place

The crucifix from Charles Bridge, created and implemented at the request of the Jesuits celebrates the place was thrown into River the future St. John Nepomuk .

latter, a priest in Prague during the reign of Wenceslas IV was thrown, by order of the king, above the bridge in 1393. On jealous king did not accept that John Nepomuk do not tell her that the Queen had confessed. Once dead, a halo would have appeared above the water. Today, his statue is crowned with a golden halo and accompanied by a few meters away, a gold cross marking the scene of the crime.

Under the vault.

In the Europe medieval stonemasons were incorporated as a corporation . Even today, there are formations stonemason in Education French and through the companionship . Attributes stonemason are found in the symbolism of Freemasonry .

Major rocks used in construction in general are; the granite, the limestone the sandstone, the millstone the marl, the slate, the marble.