Day 15: Prague - Malá Strana

From the castle we walked through Malá Strana to check out its many gardens. The Wallenstein Garden is a huge walled "formal"garden with a pond full of huge carp and some peacocks call it home, including a white one. The Vojan Gardens are less manicured but with more locals hanging out. I liked it more and a couple was getting married while we were there!

St Nicholas Church and its huge green cupola dominates the heart of Malá Strana. It's home tomEurope's largest fresco. Mozart played here in 1787 and an upstairs gallery houses an intense and dark series of paintings of The Passion. The Communists used its bell tower to spy on the Americans at their nearby embassy.

We passed the John Lennon Wall on the way to Petrín Hill. Lennon became a hero of pacifist Czechs after his murder and someone painted Lennon's face on this secluded wall. It became a venue fir thought and political graffiti during the communist era and now tourists and locals add to it layer upon layer. Really cool.