The largest ancient castle in the world at 570m. long, Prague Castle mimics the city itself - you can tell it grew organically over time. It's somewhat of a jumble with a courtyard here, a church here, little complexes here and there and very incongruous (is that a word?) All the architecture seems different from different eras, but in the middle of it all is the impressive gothic-looking St Vitus Cathedral. Beautiful (I really need a thesaurus for a word meaning extra-beautiful) stained glass all around the nave and transept. There are also some great wood carvings including a door that shows Bohemian saints depicting their martyrdom - St Vitus in a cauldron of boiling oil and St Wenceslas stabbed in the back by his brother while clinging to the church door handle trying to get inside (the very door handle is in the church on the door to his chapel).
We also got to see the changing of the guards at Noon, nowhere near the extravagance of that at Buckingham Palace, but still pretty impressive.
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