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- 'Prague does not let go...This little mother has claws', Franz Kafka once confided to his diary. His love-hate relationship with the city is reflected in the novels The Trial and The Castle, where Prague's menacing presence looms over the characters.
- A bust on the façade of the Kaiserstein Palace (No 23) honours the famous Czech soprano Ema Destinnová, who worked with the likes of Enrico Caruso, Giacomo Puccini and Richard Strauss in the early 20th century. The house's musical connections go back much further, to the occasion when Mozart heard a performance of Rosetti's Requiem here, led by another famous soprano, Josefína Dusková.
- According to legend, Rabbi Löw (1512-1609) created a golem from clay, water, air and fire. It had superhuman powers which it used to protect Josefov residents from persecutors. The golem gripped the popular imagination and has been the subject of books, films and even an opera, composed by Hanus Bartoň for Opera Furore in 1992.
- Franz Ferdinand is a classic case of the hunter hunted. On 28 June 1914, while on a state visit to Sarajevo in Bosnia, the Archduke and his wife were gunned down by a Serb nationalist. Within six weeks Europe was at war.
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