Thursday 17 May 2012

View from the Astronomical Clock Tower in Prague

   One of the best views over the city of Prague is from the famous Astromonical Clock Tower in the Old Town Square. Prague is known as the 'City of 1000 Spires' and many of them can be seen from here. The dark church with the two spires (which are not symmetrical) is the early Gothic Church of 'Our Lady before Týn' founded in 1385. The large white church with the three green copper spires is the Baroque St Nicholas Church completed in 1735.
The narrow viewing platform which runs around the outside of the square tower was full of tourists at the time, so to make the panorama I took as many photographs as possible then selected one from each corner turret and three from each side.
Panorama of Mostar Town Centre supplied by Panoramic Earth 

 This is the historic town of Mostar, the fifth-largest city in Bosnia and Herzegovina, spanning a deep valley of the Neretva River.
During the Bosnian civil war in 1993, the old stone bridge seen in this picture, known as Stari Most and the symbol of Mostar, was completely destroyed. It was subsequently restored with help from UNESCO, and reopened in 2004.