Visit of the Casemates and Gorlice & Banquet at Hotel U Semika
(27 June @ 18:00)
The complex system of casemates, underground corridors for rapid troop movement came to existence in 17. and 18. centuries during the construction of bastion fortification. Vyšehrad casemates are over 1 km long, the corridors are about 1.5 m wide and 2 m high. The largest of the underground spaces is so called Gorlice a hall comprised of 300 square meters, 13 m high. It used to serve as gathering area for troops and a weapon and food storage in case of military threat. In present day Gorlice houses six original sculptural groups from Charles bridge.
The space was cleared out, reconstructed and made accessible to public in the nineteen nineties. The hall is part of the Casemates tour. It houses six original sculptural groups from Charles bridge:
- St. Bernard with Madonna by M. V. Jackl (1709)
- St. Augustine and St. Nicholas of Torentino (J.B.Kohl, 1708)
- St Adalbert (F.M.Brokoff, 1709)
- St Anne (M.V. Jäckel, 1707)
- St Ludmilla with the Young Wenceslas (M.B.Braun, 1720-24)
