Prague Abroad 2011: Zizkov

So today was pretty cool. We went to another part of Prague, zizkov (pronounced sheeshkov) that none of us have been to yet. It was definitely a local place, no tourists, and there was more of a sense of relaxation there. People just enjoying the park, walking there dogs, children playing in a fountain, definitely different from where we are. Also a note about dogs here, they are the most behaved dogs and rarely do I see a dog on a leash, they just follow their owner and don't really stray, it's awesome.

We went on another architectural tour with vatslav cilek, a very well known professor in Prague. He pointed out how this area has architecture from all different time periods and talked about some key buildings. Here are some pictures of where we were today... Sorry if my pictures are blurry, my lens broke!

First, here is a picture of a little coffee break I took before the tour...

Here is the tv tower in zizkov. This was built somewhere between 1985 and 1990?? somewhere around there and it was one of the most hated buildings in Prague for a while. People have come to terms with it today, but they hated it for a long time, Mostly because it was built on top of an old Jewish cemetery, and it clearly sticks out from the rest of the buildings. In order to "humanize" the building, they asked an artist to work on it, so the artist added "black babies" crawling up the side of the tv tower. Most find them creepy, because they have no faces. I think it is kind of cool though.