Stock photograph of Old Town Square, Prague with the Church of Our Lady Before Tyn with the Astronomocal Clock , Town Hall


Stock photograph of the Astronomocal Clock on the Town Hall Tower in Prague at night with the Church of Our Lady Before Tyn. The spires of the church peek above the facades of the church entrance and an arcaded Romanesque house on the right. The sky is dark and the buildings are floodlit. In the foreground is the cobbled remarkable medieval astronomical clock has complex double dial which indicate the movements of sun and moon through the twelve signs of the zodiac. On the hour a pair of windows above the dial open to reveal a procession of the apostles. A group of tourists always assembles to watch this attraction.


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Photo credit: © afin / Alamy / Afripics
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