Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Wed, 22 Jul 2026 11:27:41 +0200https://english.radio.cz/our-lady-snows-8618223© 2026 Radio Prague International I'll give you an instance of how an afternoon in Prague can work itself up into something special, even from a dull start. It was a Friday. I had finished a meeting at 2.30. It was wet and grey, but I suppose I should point it was Good Friday. I was taking the cut through the old monastery garden that gets one to the Wenceslas Square tramstops when I had an idea. Instead of waiting forty minutes at Masaryk Station for my next train, I could pop in to Our Lady of the Snows, the vast, tall monastic church, across whose ancient garden I was now hurrying. Unlike most Prague churches, Our Lady of the Snows is usually open - and also unlike many of them, it has retained a lot of its gothic character. I would sit there for 20 minutes or so, as I had promised myself to one day study its magnificent reredos, or altarpiece. encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/kostel_panny_marie_snezne_2.jpg?timestamp=1591438282 https://english.radio.cz/our-lady-snows-8618223 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9