10 False Facts about Prague
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- čas přidán 20. 06. 2024
- Hitler loved Prague which is why he didn't destroy it. Old Town Hall was destroyed by American bombers during WW2. These are facts that you can hear people say in the streets of Prague, some of those people are tour guides. But they are not TRUE! Today we will take a look at some of the strangest things that some tour guides in Prague say. Buckle up!
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Timecodes
0:00 - Intro
1:30 - Tyn Church - Adam and Eve towers. Which one is which?
2:46 - Tyn Church - Towers built by brothers?
3:35 - Old Town Hall was destroyed by Americans?
5:00 - How many people are buried in the Old Jewish Cemetery again?
6:16 - Hitler loved Prague which is why he didn't destroy it.
7:20 - When the flag is up, the Czech president is in Prague Castle. Or is he?
8:40 - Russians and Nazis stole all the artworks from Prague Castle.
9:30 - Communism ended in Czechoslovakia because of famine.
9:50 - Vaclav Havel spoke from the staircase of the National Museum
10:27 - Other weird facts
You are Amazing Valery. Awesome work!
I'm an American who has been living in Prague for 8 years. I am finding out about all this stuff for the first time now. Really informative!
Great!!! Happy you liked it!
Dobry den. I envy you. I would love to live in Czechia.
Untrue fact no.11 about Prague is that Valery is a guide. Actually in early 21st century before the invasion of corona virus, she was a guide but since March 2020 she has become a presenter and a good one at that.
There have been few sightings of her guiding people around the city but that legend is yet to be verified.
Dr. Sujay, you are absolutely right. Valery has now evolved into a rare pokemon!
You bring lots of fun to history, please say something about “Brave solder Shveyk”
I went on a tour and was told by the guide that Wenceslas Square is the largest in Prague. But, of course...
Yep. I guess the guide wasn't to Charles Square yet 😅
😍😍🌷My greetings from Egypt
Haha.. Land shark! Chivalry is not dead.. we just learned to observe for those deserving... :) Thank you Valery, Teaching with a smile !
There is a very rich Jewish history in Prague with the Altneu shul, the Golem (legend?) and the two Jewish thinkers that are still studied widely by Jewish people today, Maharal and Schla (acronyms).
Great as always. I enjoy your videos, keep up the good work.
You have a great sense of humor, I enjoy your videos very much thank you.
Thanks for watching!
I saw much of this city, and I think Prague is the most interesting and most beautiful town in the world. And I assure you I have been everywhere. I lived and worked in Prague in 2004/2005. The way you present is really fantastic. Thank you for all the beautiful videos and wonderful stories.
Thanks for watching!
Best channel, love all the content
Thanksss!
Hi Valerie, great content, i very liked your idea and performance, wish you and your team good luck🤗🤗🤗👍👍
Great video as always!!! 👍👍👍
Thanks!!! As always 😉
Great video as always 😘😘😘😘
Very well done!! Great sense of humor!!!
Thank you!!!
many thanks, another great video
Really enjoy you’re videos.I hope I can visit there sometime.
Thanks!!! We are sure you'll be able to visit!!!
Thank you Valerie for these explanations.Next time I hope to stay longer to get to know this fascinating city better.
Actually Hitler gave an order in the latter half of 1944 to the then german commander in chief in Paris to destroy as much of the city as possible, but it never happened as the american and french armies were around the corner and the german commander realised the stupidity and futility of that order, so Prague was actually maybe lucky, who knows what could have had hapened.....???
Some of the SS fanatics fought even after Germany officially gave up and Prague was the last city in Europe to be freed......
Well acutally Hitler had his own plans with Prague ... he wanted rebuiulded like Berlin after the war ... he wanted Prague to be fully german ...
Your videos are absolutely amazing! Thank you so much for all the interesting stories and your sense of humour. I only regret the fact that I discovered them right after I had been to Prague. But they make me to want to go back there soon!
Nice informative video . After the devastation of WWII, much of Eastern Europe was trapped in the "Cold War" politics and kept isolated from the "West" (which might explain for much of the misinformation or little information at all about the Czech Republic (Czechoslovakia at the time) for a period of time. Is the Czech and Russian language similar? When you mentioned Pravda translates to "Truth" , wasn't Pravda one of the official newspapers of the Soviet Union ?
That was an amazing role at there at the end!
It took a lot of practice
Thanks for cutting through the BS! Can’t wait to visit Czechia!!
Keep up the good work.
I am so glad I found Real Prague Guides. School teachers could take a lesson from Valerie!!!
Valery, you know your stuff. I enjoyed this video very much.
Can you do private tours with focus on photography. ???
I love your history backround Vala ,.many things Iam learning from you ,and Iam a history buff myself :-))
Mas to pekne udelane ,spetka humoru ,odsypa to ,nenudim se ....,pivecko k tomu ...a cumim na Tenerife misto popijeni s Anglicany :-)
I love this kind of informative videos. Till now I like Valerie's and Rachael of 'Meet the German' not just because it's informative but also their lively way of presenting their videos.
Keep up Valerie.
Nice, never heard about this channel but looks great!
@@RealPragueGuides yeah the actual channel is 'DW Euromaxx' meet the Germans
Prague and Krakow in Poland are lucky cities. They had been not destroyed during WWII like old german cities.
Authentic medieval stones in Prague and in downtown of Krakow as well.
medieval architecture and city cores were destroyed in nearly all major european cities by the redevelopment in 19th century, not by WW2.
Whatever of pre-1700 architecture survived by 1939 and was destroyed in thee cities has been restored
Fantastic.
That rear wing of the City hall was destroyed during the last days of the war and after some czech resistance movement men sought refuge there and after the then german forces commander in Prague general Sörner, an old cunning fox from eastern front in Russia, commanded his tanks to shoot the building into pieces, it than caught fire and it was the end of it....
Wish I go and visit Chech Republic with you as my guide
Thanks for all, you good english and simphaty.
It's always interesting.
I would have loved to see a crowd photoshopped in for Valerie's "speech" at 10:25!
6:28 my man there. Is he picking up the dog's shit?
Good info though 😅
Yes he is 😀
nisam nikad bio u Pragu ali bih voleo da ga posetim.
I love your hair
When we took a guided tour of old town hall they even showed pictures of the bombings of the town hall that they claimed happend during wwii :O Love these vids btw! When me and my gf visited Prague last summer we did so many things based on what we saw here
The Old Town Hall was damaged during WW2 but not by tactical bombing as it is sometimes presented.
So funny. Especially Wagner’s statue being mistaken for Mendlsohns. I think it good that the dumped Wagner. Which reminds me of Mark Twain’s comment on Wagner. “His music is a lot better than it sounds “
Mark Twain also has experience with creative tour guides. So many experiences with creative tour guides!
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Love the facts. Come to New York city and I be your Guild.
When you go to Prague, book a 100 Spires tour. There is no way you can do that much research and relate it to actually living in the city. This will add value to the money you have already spent traveling to this beautiful city.
Thanks!!!
Hy valery beautiful and much informative video I think that Hitler wanted to Prague as his headquarters I am searching daily your new video because I saw your all previous videos much more love kisses and prayers for you and your whole team please forget if you don't like my any word in the comments because my English level is low so I always try to choose better words thanks
Thanks for watching and commenting!
I figured tour guides were made up of aspiring writers so they can exercise their creativity and story telling. LOL
Communism ended in Czechoslovakia because of famine. this sounds familiar , in asia , from the west propaganda ...
You're pretty good. Except, Rudolf 2nd was Austrian, not Czech. ... However, one could say, he was Czech at heart. He loved Prague and made it his capitol. A much misunderstood and excentric genius.
The break-down of the communism because of famin is accually true. But in Romania. They even had some sort of civil war and their communistic leader - Ceausescu was executed. So the myth of famin in Czechoslovakia belongs to the same sort of myths as the one about the tower builders/brothers. Yes, it happened, but elsewhere.
Probably an American mistake. We are pretty bad with geography. Czechoslavakia? Romainia? Aren't they the same place? LOL
You think I am joking? I once met someone who thought The Philippines is part China. 😮
@@ycplum7062 Oh I konw. I've seen videos of Americans adding names of countries on a blank map of Europe. One girl even wrote "India" on France. :D
@@Geker3
Sadly, I can belive that.
@@ycplum7062 Well everyone has something. Americans have geographic skills. We have customer service. :D
@@Geker3
Can't be worse that the Soviet Union back in the days. LOL
Once saw a documentary decades ago where service was almost non-existent unless you were an important government official or willing to tip with scarce commodities. They showed a reporter trying to hail a cab with dozens sitting nearby. None moved. He waved a packet of cigarettes and one rushed toward him. LOL He was really happy that 3 or 4 cigarettes were American, not the local brands.
in italy we were bombed by UK and USA. They didnt drop bombs on prague
I have heard that the towers on the Church of Tyn are different sizes because the architect made a mistake and then decided to explain his mistake away by saying they were designed that way on purpose to represent Adam and Eve...do you know if that's true? I can't find any information to confirm that.
Definitely not true. Sounds more like a made up story to spice up the explanation. There are many churches all over Europe with different sized towers. In the guiding school they explained it to us that it was kind of a fashion of building churches. For example look up St. Georges Basilica in Prague Castle. People obviously make up stories and legends that make it more interesting.
what a turn in the end :-))) haha .....wow ...Vaclav said ))
btw ....about so call Velvet revolution ...,you should read books from very important Soviet KGB defector Anatoly Golitsyn ..
he written book in 1980 New Lies for All in which he predicted what would happened in communist countries later 90s and in USSR in 1991 ......its amazing book ....I got some videos on my channel ....Velvet revolution was done by KGB with help of choosen Czechoslovakian top rank STB ...students were just used as a patsys ...as usual .
Saudek v jednom rozhovoru vzpominal, jak Nemci v lete 89 chteli, aby nafotil Havla jako budouciho prezidenta. Tolik ke studentske revoluci v listopadu. :-)
@@tigroussibirak8006 Havla si zepry vybral sam Andropov ,sef KGB tehdy v roce 1979 ...spisovatel ..,z freemason rodiny ...,..Havel musel byt " zavreny " .aby to nebylo tak proflakle......Vec je ta,ze to domlouvaji obe dve strany ,jako tehdy SSSR - USA ....vse planuji monza ti Talmudicti rabini blizko centralnich bankeru ,techto 8 rodin ,co nam tu vladnou ....naprosto evidentni je ted valka na Ukrajine ,,dva herci Zelensky a profesionalni prospechar Putin ,a lide umiraji ..
podle meho ted vse smeruje k obrovske svetove financni krizi ,a posleze prechodu na XRP crypto ....
Just for algorithm
Haha, yeah. We need to be more proactive to ask people for comments 😅
All I heard was young pros touting for business. I even saw sexually oriented Prankster youtube videos shot in prague. You learn something every day. Thanks.
The more I see Valérie, the more I 'm envious of her husband ahahah
WTH is an "untrue fact"?
Oxymoron
We are aware that it's not the best English we used... Sorry
In USA we love messy English. Keep on rockin'!👺👹👺
Okay Valery, it's English nerd time. There is no such thing as an untrue fact. A fact, by definition, is an assertion verified by evidence. What you are presenting here are untruthful assertions, shown to be so by the facts. Now back to the video . . . 😎
😅... Ooops
Dude, party the fuck up.
yes i went there and dug everyone one up in one night counted them and then reburied them.... there were🤣 124,067 bodies.... if you believe that i have a cool bridge to sell you
and boy did i have to dig fast... you have NO idea 🤣
as someone on the border when the wall came down in 89. and visited Prague and Cheb occasionally when they were a bloc member or rather a buffer state. You are only partially right when you say famine wasn't a cause. Some (Few) people were starving, but every citizen had to play the ration, availability and corruption game. The Soviets were less harsh with the Czechs than the East Germans. But the rationing and availability of items some common were sometimes hard to acquire. So a food famine was not the cause but a goods famine did lead to the fall of Czech as a border state.
I guess you confused communism with war. Rationing continued after the war until about 1953 throughout Europe, for example Britain was in a worse situation than Czechoslovakia. Then it was over, there was no ration in Czechoslovakia. Or maybe you meant Cuba. 😉
Well, regarding the 'Prague was not bombed/destroyed during WW2, that is why so much of medieval stuff survived' ..... you did not address the core 'lie'. The fact that 'no WW2 bombing explanation' its a COMPLETE nonsense. Its true that PRG was bombed very little, but its not the reason why you can see so preserved medieval city core!
Actually in nearly all cities bombed or 'destroyed', anything historically/architecturally valuable that was there before 1939 was rebuilt/restored. What medieval castles, palaces of nobility, churches, cathedrals that were there in 1939 did Vienna, Rome, Paris or other capital cities 'lost' due to WW2?:)
Answer is: about none. Why most of the 'PRG-style medieval stuff' disappeared in most european capitals before 1939, but not in PRG?
You should have addressed THIS issue and explain how nonsensical this 'no bombing in WW2=> so much medieval stuff preserved in PRG' explanation is. Its so irritating to hear this lazy 'WW2 theory' being told by 'everybody'
Zdravím, děkujeme za komentář. Jen nevím jestli úplně rozumíme, každopádně budeme rádi za jakékoliv dovysvětlení. Klidně v češtině. Diskuze máme rádi a rádi se něco přiučíme! 😎
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Proste staci si polozit logickou srovnavaci otazku kdyz slysite tuhle 'WW2 teorii o krase Prahy': jake konkretni palace, chramy,hrady.ctvrti ze stredoveku co tam byly k roku 1939 etc. 'ztratila' Viden, Pariz,Londyn v dusledku WW2?
A zjistite ze jaksi zadne. Neb co bylo historicky cenneho zniceno se po valce obnovilo nebo i postavilo znovu...ten 'stredovek' tam proste roku 1939 na rozdil od prahy uz nebyl:)
Takze WW2 vysvetleni proc je v Praze tolik stredoveku, a ve Vidni nebo Parizi neno je nesmysl:)
Skutecny duvod 'zachovani stredoveku' v Praze je nasledujici:
1) do 17 stoleti byla Praha hlavnim mestem a stavelo se 'to impress' jako vsude jinde v hlavnich centrech. Do te doby vzniklo to 'stredoveke jadro' a ta historicka architektura co dnes obdivujeme a jinde ve velkych mestech ji v takove mire nenajdete (tehdy ty 'prazske zazraky stredoveke architektury; co dnes obdivuje byly ve spouste mest)
2) po Bile hore (presneji receni po 2. pulce 17. stoleti) se Praha z hlavniho mesta kde vladci utraceli penize a staveli stala Praha 'provincialnim mestem' v Habsburgske risi. Takze se prestizni projekty, Chramy a velkolepe palace slechty uz nestavely v Praze, provincialnim meste.
3) Diky tomu nastala 'stagnace' rozvoje Prahy. Naproti tomu treba ve Vidni, Parizi, Londyne behem 200 let se v centrech mest (tehdy ne tak) stare objekty prestavovaly, bouraly, na jejich miste se stavely nove 'soudobe' prestizni projekty- takze postupne spousta tech veci(mimo hlavnich katedral, kostelu, sem tam pevnosti) v tehdejsich politickych a ekonomickych metropolich postupne mizela
4) a pak nastala polovina 19. stoleti- v 'centrech' chteli predelavat mesta na 'moderni metropole' a mesta jako Pariz, Viden, Londyn, Milan vzali do ruky developeri a napr. treba celou 'starou pariz' vybourali a nahradili to tou 'moderni bulvarni architekturou' 19. stoleti ...... kdyz jdete po Parizi ci Vidni, to je duvod proc tam vidite porad 'Vinohrady'.... vsechni druha polovina 19. stoleti. Proste to co zbylo z tech stredovekych jader mest proste 'vybourali' a nahradili tehdejsi soudobou moderni architekturou.
Takze ten stredovek ve vetsine evropskych metropoli znicili prave v tom 19. stoleti.... na WW2 uz zadny stredovek nezbyl
3) Do Prahy ktera se probouzela k moderni metropoli taky tyhle modernizacni choutky dosli, ale diky 'provincionalnimu postaveni' o nejakych 30 let pozdeji nez do Vidne, Parize & spol. Take byly plany udelat z Male strany a Stareho mesta 'Vinohrady', ale prave diky tomu zpozdeni 30 let uz na tu 'neuzitechnou nepraktickou starou architekturu' koukali trochu jinak, a rozsah tehle 'renovace' byl omezen a pak zastaven. Pokud si vsimnete, treba pas od Starometskeho namesti po reku byl take vybouran a-la Pariz/Viden a je to 19. stoleti, nebo prakticky cele Nove mesto bylo 'zbourano+nahrazeno' v te dobe - ne nadarmo se hlavni trida 'destrukce po parizsku' jmenuje Parizska..... ale proste to zastavili vcas nez stihli 'modernizovat' vsechno:)
Takze tohle je to vysvetleni proc se 'praha zachovala'. Po Bile hore v Praze jako provincialnim meste nebyly 200 let penize a motivace na prestavovani a nahrazovani, a pak diky zpozdeni 'modernizace' v 19. stoleti prisla ta v Praze o 30 let pozdeji a do doby kdy lide uz chapali ze mozna stoji za to nezbourat vsechno a uchovat 'stredovek'.
Ten 'stredovek' padl ve vetsine evropskych metropoli za obet 'modernizaci' 19. stoleti, ne WW2. Co se ze stredoveku dochovalo do roku 1939 po WW2 prakticky do posledniho vsude obnovili nebo znovuvystaveli i kdyz za WW2 to rozbombardovali napadrt. Jen proste toho bylo k 1939 minimum.
Treba cele hist. centrum Gdansku ktere doslova prestalo existovat taky postavili z nuly znovu, a hist. centrum Prahy by nepochybne taky znovu postavili i kdyby na ni spadla atomovka.
Takze Praha neunikla zkaze WW2, ale na 200 let 'stagnovala' a pak unikla zkaze druhe poloviny 19. stoleti;)
To je to vysvetleni. Tohle by jste meli tem smudlum vysvetlit aby vsichni porad neopakovali 'no WW2 bombing' ptakovinu:)
P.S. mimochodem, podobny vzorec najdete u rady mest ktere dnes obdivujeme kvuli krasne stare architekture. Byly dlouho na 'vrcholu', centrem obchodu a/nebo moci, byly tam $$$ a stavelo se s rozmachem ... a pak nastal z nejakeho duvodu nekdy v 17.,18. stoleti upadek moci/bohatstvi, centrum akce se presunulo jinam a tim se mesto dostalo do stagnace a uniklo vlnam modernizace az do konce 19. stoleti. Tedy momentu kdy teprve zacali lide/mesta chranit pamatky a prestalo platit ze novy barak lepsi stareho....
....diky cemuz se zachovala neporusena historicka jadra ktera dnes obdivujeme: viz Brugy, treba, x italskych mensich mest. To je v principu stejny pribeh jako Praha.
Jen Praha je unikatni oproti mestum typu Brugy v tom ze to bylo nekolik set let hlavni mesto a pak prestalo byt....takze tam pred 'upadkem v postaveni a stagnaci' vystaveli vic veci nez treba v mestech typu obchodni Brugy. Ale jinak je to stejny pribeh jak se zachovala historicka jadra.
Skvělé!
Tohoto jsme si vědomi, jen jsme zvyklí na to, že většina mimoevropských turistů je seznámena s faktem, že města jako Drážďany či Varšava byli srovnány se zemí a proto se to cizincům vůbec říká, že spousta budov, co zde dnes vidí, nebylo zničeno. (některé ano a samozřejmě po válce byly zrekonstruované).
Každopádně Vaše vysvětlení je špičkové a rozhodně něco z toho zakomponujem do našich prohlídek (a možná i do naších budoucích videí)
@@RealPragueGuides no jenze ani ta Varsava, ani ty Drazdany nemely pred 1939 nejakou stredivekou achitekturu, u techto dvou mest hlavne proto ze to ve stredoveku byly zapadakovy;). …. kouknete se na obrazky Varsavy nebo Drazdan pred WW2…. Drazdany byly sice pekne, ale to byla architektura z 1700+;, Berlin to same. A i v te Varsave ci Drazdanech znovu postavili co bylo “historicky cenneho” v centrech. Samo drazdany vypadaji divne, ale to proto ze se tam vykaslali rekonstruovat ty ‘Vinohrady’ z konce 19. stol co obklopovaly centrum…. ale to nebyla zadna historicka architektura;)
Proste NIKDE v Evrope neznicila WW2 nejaky ‘stredovek’ ve mestech…. to bylo obnoveno….. kdyz bylo nekde bombardovani, neobnovovaly se jen ty casti z 19. stol treba v tech Drazdanech( nezapomente ze tehdy ty ‘Vinohrady’ byly jen +~ 50 let stare, tak na to nekoukali jako na nejakou historii;((
big load of smelly bleep ....LOL