Daliborka
Fifteenth-century prison tower with a haunting legend of a fiddling convict and hidden oubliette.
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This guide to Daliborka in Prague tells the legend of Dalibor of Kozojedy, a nobleman locked in this fifteenth-century tower for sheltering peasants who had fled a cruel lord, and the story that he taught himself violin so beautifully that Praguers gathered below to listen. It also lays out a darker theory some historians hold about what that 'violin' might really have been. Look for the round hole in the floor as you listen.
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