Prague - in search of some greenery

My third day in Prague, so I started with some more wandering around the streets picking off some sights. Starting with the Municipal House, a very impressive art nouveau edifice

 And its not the only such building by any means

A rare modern building by the river - the Dancing House, or  the Fred and Ginger building, because one side looks like it is dancing with the other. Well a bit like that

After a few days of culture I tend to look for a park somewhere. The problem with Prague is that all the flat bits are built on, so the green bits are on hills that are to steep to build on.. A leisurely stroll around a park is less attractive when the gradient is about 1:2. The answer is to take the funicular railway up the hillside. So I did.

This is a monument to communism. The idea is that it is people falling apart. Quite neat and striking.

 At the top of the railway there is a plateau with neatly laid out gardens

 And an observatory

 And a monastery

 And an observation tower. This is a scale model of the Eiffel Tower. I decided to take the steps to the top - al 299 of them. Obviously great views from the top, but particularly nice was that they had opening windows, so one was wasn't peering through glass made misty by the hot breath and sticky fingers of all the earlier visitors.

Home of Sparta Prague

But back down on solid ground for the real odd-ball construction - a mirror-maze. Now I try to avoid photos of myself, but in a mirror-maze that can be hard.

 In the middle is a panorama of the defence of Prague against the Swedes

 And then a hall of distorting mirrors

 Back into the gardens of Petrin Park

The Hunger Wall

 And then the climb down. Quite hard work really as its so steep that your toes are constantly being jammed into the end of your shoes. Gives one a feel for what ballerinas have to suffer. But great views on the way through the wooded slopes