Just a quick one to point out something obvious that you may have noticed in the city (most old cities actually) and thats the amount of gold lettering that actually features on old buildings, monuments and other such structures. Its either chiselled in and leafed or presented in a relief and if its not gold lettering its some other presentation of gold, but its everywhere, take a look.
on a slight tangent, when i was in Prague they have some old bronze work on the charles bridge and inlaid below the statue of 'John of Nepomuk' are two relief bronze casts with figures that are polished to a high golden shine due to a superstition/religious belief that leads the masses of daily tourists to place their hands on it. I was never able to find out what the deal was with touching the figures (something to do with good luck?) but it was pretty cool how the bronze remained polished.
Prague is also an awesome city, if i can swing some kind of residency there at some point it would be great to live and work there for a little bit.
Oh, keep the gold lettering in mind, it plays heavily on some ideas that i have...
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