Katedrála svatého Víta, Václava a Vojtěcha
Czechia
Stand in the third courtyard of Prague Castle and look up, and the first thing to understand is that you are seeing two cathedrals stitched together, centuries apart. The eastern end, with its ring of chapels, is Gothic work begun in 1344, when Prague was raised to an archbishopric. The western half, with the nave you walk into and the twin-towered front, was only built from 1873 and completed in 1929. In between, for roughly five hundred years, the building stood as an unfinished torso, its open end boarded up and walled off. The great south tower, 96.6 metres high, is the third tallest church tower in the country, and it too is a composite: its Baroque copper helmet, under which the bells hang, dates from 1770.
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