🇨🇿 造訪布拉格之前，聽了一些關於她的好以及她的壞，也讓我對於這個城市有更多的好奇 . 來了幾天，這城市已經令我著迷，著迷的不單單只是她的美麗和優雅，更是她鮮為一般遊客所提的歷史底蘊。遙想數百年前，布拉格拋窗事件再再發生，而引發了撼動歐洲歷史的胡斯戰爭及三十年戰爭；而在海德里希統治時期，布拉格猶太區雖被作為示範區來宣揚納粹政府的”德政”，數十見方的猶太墓園中卻又層層疊葬了十萬多條生命；又或是在上個世紀末的天鵝絨革命，瓦茨拉夫廣場上人們不畏懼一切地聚集，輕晃著的鑰匙溫柔卻堅定地向強權抗訴 . 我喜歡在暮色時分來到坐落在波光粼粼的伏爾塔瓦河上的查爾斯橋，聽著 Elctroshock 拉奏著音樂，那副投入的樣子彷彿驕傲地挺著捷克人的倔強。站在斯拉夫文明與日耳曼文明的交會口，布拉格這座城市是百感交集的、是身不由己的。尼采曾說布拉格是神秘的，我想這神秘是源自於沈澱在極致美景下的鐵與血吧 . 🇨🇿 Prior to my embarkation for Prague, my friends who have been here tried to describe the city to me. From here and there, I heard some goods and some bads, stirring my curiosity of the city . After few days here in Prague, it’s fair to say that I am already fascinated by its charm — for sure by its elegance and beauty, but also all the lesser-known history behind: Hundreds of years ago, two history-changing wars, Hussite War and Thirty Years’ War, were both triggered by the two Defenestrations in the Old Prague City Hall. During the Nazi period under the Heydrich governance, Jewish Quarter was acted as a demonstration area to showcase “how Nazi well treated the Jews”, yet at the few-tens-of-square-meter Old Jewish Cemetery, tens of thousands of Jewish corpses were stacked and buried. And, at the end of last century, Velvet Revolution brought down the Communism in Czechoslovakia — hundreds of thousands of citizens gathered in the Wenceslas Square, gently jiggling keys against the power . One thing I enjoy a lot during my time in Prague is to visit Charles Bridge in the twilight and listen to Electroshock’s play, in which I could feel the Czechic unyieldingness and proudness. Prague, standing still at where Slavism and Germanism meet since long, is hard to be defined in all aspects. Nietzsche once described Prague as mysterious — to me, the mysterious beauty is just originated from the base of iron and blood . #charlesbridge #oldtownprague #praha #prague #czech #electroshock #JLworldwanderer