I love it. Ghoulishly decadent!
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| Written by i j |
| Monday, 03 May 2010 16:09 |
It has been some time since we last talked about places in which to get lost and it’s time to change that tendency, today we talk about a city that I don’t know why we didn’t talked about earlier, we talk about Prague, more exactly…
There are really few places in the world as cools as Prague, I personally, don’t know any other place to compare with (in it’s style), It’s a magical place, full of legends that evokes fantastical creatures mixed with violins and piano music, all the city has the perfect ambient for gothic people like us… In deed I think that we should write an article for Prague itself in the future but for now we will talk only about a special place that particularly calls my attention, and it’s the Jewish Cemetery.
Fixed inside a serial of buildings (some of them old synagogues) the only way to get here is walking through narrow streets made of stone, the first thing that will call our attention is that contrary to other gothic cemeteries that we talked previously, there isn’t any expensive burials around, you will see no ostentation at all here, it’s more “basic” more “natural” and more “essential” and over all things… more crowded.
I say Crowded because inside the cemetery walls we will only find thousand and thousands of burial stones that seems to have been dropped from the sky in a strange order, maybe moved by the invisible hands of naughty creatures.
Even with the amount of tombstones present in the area it’s hard to believe that there are more than 100.000 people buried in this place, they just “don’t fit” in the surface present.
The truth is that the burials has been made by adding layers after later of soil making the burials above the previous ones, there are places in which it’s possible to count 11 layers of burials one over the other, tombstones that should be buried as well, were taken and placed above the new soil layer, that’s why tombstones seems to be “everywhere” in this cemetery.
That pile of burials is what made this place to be above the near streets, in this way the cemetery dominates the area and in some way it extends it’s aura over the farther than it’s own walls flooding the surroundings with a strange feeling.
If you visit this place you should go to the near synagogues, specially the Pinkas synagogue contains a museum about the Nazi holocaust and an exposition of the drawing made by Terazin, there were more than 10.000 Childs of less than 15 years old jailed (8000 were sent to the east and only 242 survived the war).
The visit to this cemetery and the near synagogues will remind us the ephemeral of our lives and our existence.
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