Photograph by Edgar K. Frank
THE CHARLES IV BRIDGE AT PRAGUE, BOHEMIA
The buttresses of the bridge are adorned with twenty-eight statues and groups of saints. A slab of marble on the bridge between the sixth and seventh pillars marks the spot where St. John Nepomuc, the patron saint of Bohemia, is said to have been flung from the bridge by order of Wenceslaus IV for refusing to betray what the Empress had confided to him in the confessional. The bridge is 1,650 feet long, has 16 arches, and was built 550 years ago.
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