Dear Steemit friends and followers,
Welcome to my Travel Tip series where I promote some of the most beautiful places, interesting landmarks and impressive architectural sites of my homeland, the Czech Republic.
Today, I prepared something special for you as I will show you something you probably never heard of before - the Olomouc Astronomical Clock.
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If you visit my blog regularly, I am pretty sure you have heard of the famous Astronomical Clock found on the Old Town Square in the historic center of Prague as it is one of the most popular tourist attractions of the city and a truly remarkable piece of medieval engineering.
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However, there are actually two astronomical clocks in the Czech Republic. The other one that is a way less famous, is located in the beautiful Moravian city of Olomouc. The Olomouc Astronomical Clock is almost as old as the Prague one, with its origin dating back to the first half of the 15th century and it was so beautiful and unique that - according to an old legend - the creator of the clock was rendered blind so that he could not replicate it somewhere else. Unfortunately, the Olomouc Astronomical Clock was completely remodeled several times throughout the centuries for various reasons including war damages and political changes.
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The last (and most degrading) reconstruction occurred in 1955 when it was remodeled in the Communist style known as the Social Realism. After the Communist regime fell in 1989, most of the Communist statues and monuments were removed from the clock but the large decorative mosaic depicting Communist workers and scientists remained there, providing a bizarre retrospective glimpse into what the life was like during the Communist era.
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