Private guided tours in Prague
Alchemist
Prague
Prague
is a golden, mysterious city with one hundred spires, and for all
that it thanks among other to the alchemists, who belong to it
inseparably.
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| Golden Crown on the National Theatre |
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| Prague city of hundred spires |
It
is gold plated by their philosopher's stone produced perhaps in one
of its hundred towers - in Mihulka, or maybe in Kelley´s tower in
the House of the Donkey by the Cradle in a mysterious laboratory.
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| Mihulka Tower in Prague Castle |
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| Philosopher's stone |
Now
you can get there by visiting the Museum of Alchemists and Magicians
of old Prague, where you can look under the lids of bowls of emperor
Rudolf's alchemists.
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| Edward Kelley |
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| Rudolf II. |
At
first you will immerse in the wisdom texts of the alchemists, alchemy
and personalities associated with alchemy, whether the alchemists
themselves, or unexpected examples as Charles IV or William
Shakespeare.
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| William Shakespeare |
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| Charles IV |
You
are going to walk through a magical room of the Faust´s house and
then, subtly initiated, you will climb the spiral of life up to the
sky. By the „spiral of life“ we mean the spiral staircase built
by Kelly in the 16th century, and almost in heaven, in the attic
between the beams from the times of Rudolf II, you will find the
authentic atmosphere of the laboratory of one of the most famous
alchemists of Rudolphine times, the master Edward Kelley, who lived
in this house. Even his life story makes us understand that "there
are many ways leading to magic, but the only way away from it…
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| Museum Of Alchemy |
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| Museum Of Alchemy |
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