Mediterranean Central: Prague Castle

From the main train station, I took the 9 tram, transferred to 22 just before crossing the river and spent most of my full day in Prague at Prague Castle. I even purchased the short visit and ended up spending hours here. First things first, get lost and need to re-route with trams.

If you get to the castle before noon you can watch the changing on the guards.

I'm guessing in a change-the-guard contest, Prague Castle would be better protected than Buckingham Palace.

Changing on the guards is about 20 minutes, if you leave that event a few minutes early you can get an early entrance into St. Vitus Cathedral.

I visited late November / early December, for photos, I think think light entering the church around 12:30 to 1pm is great. Probably the best time to visit and take-a-photo.

Stain glass all over the place.

The short visit ticket includes 3 or 4 places to visit within the castle complex. It is more than enough to see, the long visit ticket must take 6 or 7 hours to see everything.

The main hall.

Amazing light passing through the south - south - east windows.

Some windows have filter with a brown yellow glass.

Stain glass everywhere.

All over the cathedral were statues and carvings.

Another location on the short visit was Vladislav Hall, a large hall used for king-style parties.

The east wall of the cathedral has a Christmas tree.

This was the last place to visit on the short ticket, at first I though I was scammed because this just looked like another sidewalk. But it turns out this is the Golden lane, a row of old apartments and shops. Some rooms actually sell stuff and other preserve how the room looked back in the day. The upper floors of the golden lane contain a guard tower and a bunch of medieval armor and other things made out of tin.