Prague Castle

This guide to Prague Castle traces the morning of May 23, 1618, when Protestant Bohemian nobles put two Catholic governors and their secretary on trial in the castle's chancellery and threw them from a window twenty-one meters above the courtyard. It follows the argument that split the city afterward, over what exactly broke their fall, and introduces the secretary who walked away with an unlikely noble title. Stand in the courtyard below and look up at the window that started that argument.