Prague

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Prague has a rare combination of natural and architectural beauty. Like many older cities, it was founded on a river, and it is built on seven hills, several of which rise dramatically from the river basin. The large hill that stretches downstream from the one next to the castle contains an orchard and a park with many gardens, so there is an extensive stretch of green visible right in the middle of the city. Its architecture has been relatively well preserved in comparison to many older cities. This is partly because it did not suffer extensive bombing during WWII such as that which leveled much of Warsaw, Dresden and other cities in Central Europe, most of them German. It is also because citizens’ and artists’ groups vigorously protested further destruction of the city’s architectural heritage when the district of Josefov was razed in late 19th– early 20th century. So in the inner core of the city, there was not extensive re-building, such as that which replaced older architecture with the ‘boulevards’ under Baron Haussmann in Paris and the Ringstrasse in Vienna.