Prague — human figures are everywhere, part 3

Everywhere you look in Prague, there are people.

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With so many visitors everywhere, even in the off-season, you would hardly think the buildings need to add more people of their own.

But they do. And delightfully so. Today, let’s just take a look at one building.

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Up on the top floor there seems to be some kind of motto, flanked by a man and a woman.

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I wish I could read it, but the letters are so old-fashioned I can’t quite make them all out.

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I do know, however, that the man and woman seem gentle, courteous, well-brought-up. The kind of people you might like to get to know.

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And, as if this weren’t enough–take a closer look at the corner of the building.

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Here we have a woman framed top and bottom like a saint, offering the ends of her headscarf as if it were some kind of benediction.

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