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13-photo photomerge of Plzen
I wasn’t on the top of the spire, of course, but you can see where this panorama came from by looking up from here. The Pilsner Urquell Brewery can be seen in the background on the left.
Also, it’s sort of odd the “City of a Hundred Spires” (Prague) doesn’t have the tallest spire in the country.
Pilsner Urquell Brewery (Plzeň, Czech Republic)
This is the O.G. brewery which opened in 1842. Over two-thirds of the beer produced in the world today copied the beer first made here.
Cathedral of St Bartholomew exterior with Zlatá kašna Anděl (Golden Fountain Angel)
Františkánský klášter (Plzeň, Czech Republic)
The Czech Republic is one of the least religious countries in the world. So it’s no surprise that as I walked around the exterior and interior of this complex I saw exactly zero people.
Kozel Manor House (Czech Republic)
Once upon a time, less than a year ago, I had a travel day in the Czech Republic in which I was to move from Pilsen to Český Krumlov via my rental car. Google Maps said I’d be there in 2.5 hours, but I couldn’t check in to my new lodgings for something like four or five hours so I “searched along the route” for the word “castle”. Google came up with something like 20 of them! What?!?! The first one I stopped at was this one (maybe because Kozel is also the name of a Czech beer, and I thought it could also be a brewery?). Gorgeous place with virtually no people.
(Pilsen, Czech Republic – August 2021)
The stadium covering some of this photo was previously known as Stadion města Plzně and is the home turf of FC Viktoria Plzeň. The Pilsner Urquell Brewery is behind it.