TravelerZrenjanin
Plzen 2IN CELLAR - BEER – IN PARKS - DINOSAURSBy Zoran SlavicPlzen is a city on the edge of Germany; you can see the architecture and the manners of its inhabitants. Here is a Czech relaxation framed Germanic meticulousness and precision. While we walk the streets that are full of beautiful, functional and impressive buildings, one wonders if the residents of Plzen, through order and discipline, and the nonchalance of fun happens, or is their inherent relaxation only well controlled, acquired habits and lifestyle? But all the same, these Czechs here are just a little different from those we know. So is this the city: it has everything: history, entertainment, work and - beer. The most prominent sights of Plzen are the Gothic St. Bartholomew's Cathedral, founded in the late 13th century, whose tower is the highest in the Czech Republic, the Renaissance Town Hall, and the Moorish Revival Great Synagogue, the second largest synagogue in Europe, after the Dohány Street Synagogue in Budapest. There is also a 20 km historic underground tunnel/cellar network, among the longest in Central Europe. Part of this network is open to the public for tours of about 750 meters in length and up to a depth of 12 meters. This large and powerful city at the confluence of four rivers is based on an extremely diverse, ancient, and still functioning underground. System cellar, wine, beer, tunnels, canals - water sanitation, and shelter, and all sorts of habitats created by the 13 to 19 centuries and is still being reconstructed and used. One half-hour descent into the underworld fraction of Plzen, reminded me of the Roman catacombs, although local is much simpler. Here's functionality outweighed sacred, as are Husist Plzen, Pope outwitted a couple of times.Particularly interesting this city gives the existence of a large, significant European, Zoological garden, which is part and Dinosaur Park, better known as Dino Park! The Garden is located near the centre of the city, has a varied landscape with small lakes, rocks, arboretum and parks. The Zoo has the second largest space for bears in Europe, and a natural habitat for monkeys and large cats. A greenhouse for succulents and a special informational path can be found in the Botanical garden together with the "Evolution of Nature in the Quaternary period". Lizards living here are among the rarest animals fond anywhere, particularly the Komodo dragons. These large lizards exist in only a few Zoos in the world. The Lochotin amphitheatre, next to the Zoo, is the largest natural amphitheatre in the Czech Republic. Dino Park is very convenient destination for school trips, but it is also an interesting target for lesson of biology. Pupils and students will see here only paleontological models. They can also learn same facts about different species of dinosaurs and about the evolution of life on Earth.As a reminder, and I was in two days in the town remembered: Czech and European famous puppeteer, animator, author of many children's films, and the founder of many things in the world of puppetry, Jiri Trnka, born in 1912. Also in this city. A Plzen from the environment, from Pomuka, 1350. He was brought and Jan Nepomuk, to disobey as Vicar of Prague, drowned in the Vltava River. At only the end of the fourteenth century.