After our long stop at St Vitus Cathedral we expect another longer visit in the Old Royal Palace rooms. Just finding the entrance is a bit difficult as it does not look that regal from the outside. You enter almost immediately into the impressive Vladislav Hall from where we are quite uncertain where to go next as there are no clear signs or directions.
Still we have time to admire Vladislav Hall as we walk around trying to understand where to go. It was built in the late 15th century and it was the largest secular space in medieval Prague. It is still used for large public events similarly to how it was used during the Bohemian monarchy.
One of the more famous locations in the Old Royal Palace rooms is the window of defenestration, something that would probably we liked by the current Russian leaders. Here two Catholic regents and their secretary were defenestrated by Protestants which precipitated the Thirty Years. Interestingly the nobles survived their 70 foot drop which was seen as sign of divine intervention by the Catholics. To counter this the Protestants asserted that a dung heap arrested their fall which shows that propaganda is not something that can be linked only to our era.
We then discover a relatively secret staircase that takes us to the Land Rolls Rooms. We assume that these were the rooms for the Land Rolls mostly during the monarchy given the importance in understanding who owned what parcel of land.
There is also the diet hall which holds a replica of the Czech crown. Here the king was sitting in the middle while the noblemen and other important people were arrayed all around him. And this is the last room, quite a small collection of rooms are visitable compared to other castles, so it is time to move to the next attraction on the combo ticket, the Saint George Basilica.
