After a nice morning walk getting lost, I mean…exploring, I went to the last big museum in town. 

The convent of st. Agnes of Bohemia is now part of the national gallery. The convent itself isn’t operational now. It was given to the state, and in 2000, was opened permanently as a museum.

It has a fantastic and exhausting collection of religious medieval art, mostly altarpeices and statues of saints. My brain was whizzing around after 2 hours.

All my actual plans for the day completed, I walked up to the castle. The grounds are mostly free, but I really wanted to see the inside of that cathedral.

It was amazing. Lots of very fine stained glass and woodworking. The rest of the castle…..was a castle. Moving on.

Still to early to go home, I found a small tourist attraction called the Lennon wall. It’s a graffiti covered wall with a history. During the occupation, freedom fighters would write inspirational messages, secretly of course.  I’m sure getting caught meant death. Now it’s just a neat thing to see.  Lots of people committing vandalism whilst consuming ice cream and coffee drinks. 

Ok. Still early. On the way back home, walking slowly, I stumbled across a church with a cellar exhibit about WWII and an assassination of a Nazi officer. He was a bad, bad person.  Very moving story of desperation and loss. They made a movie about it called Anthropoid. I’ve not seen the movie, but it brings a lot of people in to learn more about history. So that’s good.

Finally time to get some dinner and rest.

Thank goodness, my dogs are killing me!

Tomorrow…a bus to Vienna!

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