Prague - objects of interest

The following photographs were objects of interest, to us anyway.   Not all of them would rate as really interesting objects, tourist wise.

The statue of King Wenceslas or Prince Vaclav (921-29) on horseback.   He was a very pious man, and worked hard to spread Christianity.   He was murdered by his brother Boleslav the Cruel.   As things went in those days.   Now he is a man of legend, the Czech's patron saint, and of Christmas Carol fame.  The square that runs down the hill from the statue, called Wenceslas Square has always been a focus for demonstrations and public gatherings.

 This photograph looks down the square.   In the foreground people are looking at the shrine to the victims of communism, including students Jan Palach and Jan Zajic, who burned themselves alive in 1969 protesting against the Soviet invasion.

 Walter posing in the alleyway, luckily not underneath the red banners.    The red banners mark the doorway to a Sex Machines Museum, which we did not go into, by the way.   Walter looked in the window and could see some interesting displays.   I was too modest to look!

 We went for a trip on the little train, which took us around the city for an hour.    A bone shattering trip, over cobblestones.   No suspension of course.

 There were quite a few monuments and statues, mostly religious ones, where people put their hands, and you could see where they had worn the surface away away, or polished the surface.   Can you see the area where the surface on this statue has been polished a bright bronze colour?  

I think this statue was the most interesting.  And we were left to wonder about the reasons for the area to be touched or polished.   Or was it a joke?