Old Royal Palace
Gothic-Renaissance hall where knights once jousted and a 1618 window fall sparked a European war.
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This guide to the Old Royal Palace in Prague centers on the morning of May 23, 1618, when two Catholic governors and their secretary faced a chamber of furious Protestant nobles inside these halls. It follows the broken promise of religious freedom behind their confrontation, before leading you past the soaring ribbed ceiling of Vladislav Hall, built so mounted knights could joust indoors. Look up at the window near the Ludwig Wing, close to where the shouting ended.
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