ALL Charles Bridge Statues Explained under 7 minutes

Charles Bridge is one of the most famous tourist attractions in Prague. Almost everyone who visited Prague crossed it. But did you ever stop to look at the statues that decorate the bridge in detail? No? Then this video is for you.
In this video, we will cover all of the 31 statues that you can find on Charles Bridge. You will learn when they were created, who was their sculptor, and whether they are originals or not. Valery will also throw in some fun facts.
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[@redstone51]

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[@shravanmehra3743]

Very nice. Appreciate the video.

[@RealPragueGuides]

Thanks!

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Thank you so much for sharing, I ah e been there twice (1994 and 2016). A lovely walk!

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Thank you! We hope you will be able to visit soon!

[@RitaBecnel]

I absolutely adore these videos !!!! Absolutely amazing ! Great job! Coming to Prague at the end of Feb !! Love it

[@kenlee1416]

The Lapidarium is a gem of a museum. Those who love history should visit. Some of the fascinating exhibits include a reddish-brown sandstone fountain removed from the Old Town Square, a massive 'bear' portal and the original St Wenceslas equestrian statue (a replica is now in Vysehrad). There is also the Marshal Radetzky statue that could(?) be brought back (a replica) to the lower part of Little Quarter Square.

[@RealPragueGuides]

Wow! You should be a tour guide in Prague knowing all this :)

[@kenlee1416]

@@RealPragueGuides Haha. I can maybe bluff my way through with friends who've never visited Prague. Anyway, I'm 7000 miles from Central Europe, so will never happen. :)

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[@speedendurance]

I wish I found this channel BEFORE I went to Prague!

[@GreatCityAttractions]

You can always go back!

[@Graygeezer]

We kicked off our European tour in Prague and it was the most interesting and clean city we visited by far.

[@UrduTravel]

thanks for the video 👍

[@RealPragueGuides]

Thanks for watching!

[@AnaKovacevic84]

Michelangelo's Pieta is in Vatican. I was lucky to see it in person.

[@RealPragueGuides]

You are absolutely right! 😎

[@MikeGill87]

Well. Michelangelo made three pietas. The two less famous are now in Florence and Milan.

[@ManishGupta-zr3zq]

Wow…was wondering where to read about these statues and viola…found u 😀… Bravo.

[@GreatCityAttractions]

Great explanations. Very interesting historical context.

[@Туризмподлупой]

Very interesting video about skulptures 👍

[@RealPragueGuides]

Thank you!

[@waynehazle]

wonderful guiding! I hop to make it to Prague this year

[@nicocortes7319]

Perfect 👌

[@johnh7718]

Watched every video. Good luck! Will definitely hire them when/if I get to Prague!

[@lijojake]

Thanks Valerie for explaining all the statues! I love coming to Prague. Pieta is in the Vatican.

[@UrduTravel]

you are guiding like a professional guide

[@rogerflorida1498]

They need to add a new original statue to the bridge: the "Ms. Vallerie" representing the welcoming and educating of all tourists and visitors to Prague. ..... with, of course, a green thumbs up !

[@redstone51]

Could not agree more!!!

[@DCudeiro]

great video :-)

[@nickbremner6274]

Wow! That was quick, some very useful information though. I'd love to visit Prague again and have Valerie guide me around ..... maybe next year it will be safe to travel again?

[@RealPragueGuides]

Hopefully it will be safe!

[@venice9438]

I always heard about the crucifix with the Hebrew words. Thanks for showing and explaining.

[@RealPragueGuides]

Thanks for watching!

[@PWBERRETT]

You forget the ancient and most revered statue of the Honest Lamp, the tradition of which is that if you rub it it gives you good fortune. :)

[@ranjanpal7217]

Amazing video...Is there any fee/charges to walk on Charles Bridge?

[@RealPragueGuides]

Charles Bridge is for free

[@ranjanpal7217]

@@RealPragueGuides plz also make a video on Perrin tower. How to get there fom old town square, the tickets for funniculur and fees to go on observation deck of Perrin Tower.

[@rafaelbadalov9393]

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[@vickieRobinson-iw3rb]

Valarie you are butiful fraline

[@janrobinson2265]

Good pictures!!! Disrespectful comments!!!

[@standev1]

The impious jokes are insufferable indeed.

[@julesdowner5585]

So the most valuable statue is 'missing'! , um, nothing suspicious there then ??

[@stepandolezal7550]

Saint Francis of Borgia is actually a statue of Nicolas Cage in disguise.

[@RealPragueGuides]

:D

[@thomasmoore3205]

Any sugar mommas out there who want to take me to Prague, I’m a lot of fun 🤩

[@blue1901]

what is wrong with Czech tour guides... The "honest guide" just makes videos of prague as a crime city and now this... why make fun of history and the saints...

[@RealPragueGuides]

History is quite dark. We rather make fun out of it than drama. It’s just our approach not all guides in Prague have this approach. You definitely can find some who would be only serious. If you ever need a serious tour guide, contact us and we’ll give you recommendations!

[@blue1901]

@@RealPragueGuides What does "seriousness" have to do with great history ! No if i listen to Czech tour guides i would never go to prague!

[@finncollins5696]

amen. all the czech saints pray for czech republic. Amen. It has now become a godless brothel.

[@finncollins5696]

"im sure how its went" your humour their shows your disgust and disrespect towards christianty. can you plz explian me this? dont talk about things you dont know.

[@roirenaud2695]

This type of humour is very czech... irony, sarcasm and mocking serious and honorable things helped this nation survived under opression and tyrannies. In some cases it may look like a bad taste. It is too common novadays. Sometimes it is funny, sometimes rather sad.

[@finncollins5696]

@@roirenaud2695 it is indeed blasphemy. Czech was a holy country with so many saints. Today czech ppl, im so sad for them. The country with the highest porn making and orgy sex........

[@vermull19]

@@finncollins5696 Yep Czechlands were such a holy land that Christianity was adopted by the nobility in the 9th century only to stop the Czechs from being a slave supply for the southern and western Christian countries, which gave rise to the largest slave market in Central Europe and caused Prague to become rich, St. Wenceslas was canonized at the request of his pagan brother, who went down in history (wrongly) as a fratricide, St. Vojtech ( known as St. Adalbert ) preferred to flee because he did not like, among other things, the trade with Christian slaves or drunkenness, and after the murder of his entire family by the Vršovci, he never came back in his lifetime and went north to preach the faith to the Prussians, then the Czechs rebelled against Rome, whereupon Rome considered them to be infidels/godless/servants of the devil and sent several crusades against them, and then the Czechs rebelled against Rome/Habsburgs again, starting the 30 year war, they were forced to recatholize, which eventually led to the war being ended by Swedish Protestants pillaging the country, along with 300 years of Habsburg/Austrian absolutism and Germanization. These two righteous wars for God's only truth caused not only the loss of economic development and self independence, but also a 70% population decline (these wars were much more devastating to us than WW1 and WW2, although WW2 left a wound that we as a nation have not yet recovered from, and that is the betrayal of the Western Allies known as the Munich Treaty, which twisted our spine and took away our national pride, which then led to the easier rise to power of the Communists and socialism, and the 20 year stay of Grandpa Frost's "allied" troops. Personally, I don't really see much difference between the Church, Nazism and Socialism/Communism except that only the signs of 1 philosophy/regime are officially banned). So thank you, but never again. I think losing almost the entire population twice, just because of whose doctrine is more true, was richly enough. We can abundantly do without such fanatics and fundamentalists as a nation and prefer to laugh at them, as we do at everything and everyone else for as they say fun must be had, even if there is no bread to be had and the father hanged. After all, in a way, even naming a pagan festival called Beltain by the Celts to celebrate the coming of summer, when the Church wanted to ban it, as the Burning of the Witches, and celebrating it as such, can also be considered a mockery. So it's not a modern affair. We're just continuing to be who we've always been. Humour-loving people full of cynicism, sarcasm, irony and bitterness, to whom nothing is sacred.

[@finncollins5696]

@@vermull19 wrong. Czechs became athiests bcz of communists. You are talking and emphasising about 1% possible history. Many Czechs were devoted catholics until the communist occupation..

[@finncollins5696]

@@vermull19 you don't find a difference betwen church and communism? Lmao. Read the bible. Communism, atheism, is for this world. But Christianity is for the other world. And Czech has many saints. You deliberately forgotten all the Bohemian saints. Christianity was spread among the Czechs by the first missionaries to their land and the new faith was adopted by respect and devotion. Until the satanic communist regime.