{"id":33542,"date":"2026-08-02T00:09:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T07:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=33542"},"modified":"2026-07-05T18:25:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T01:25:25","slug":"hradec-kralove-spires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2026\/08\/hradec-kralove-spires\/","title":{"rendered":"Hradec Kr\u00e1lov\u00e9 Spires"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_33543\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/198_3979-RAW-czech-republic-Hradec-Kralove-clear.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33543\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/198_3979-RAW-czech-republic-Hradec-Kralove-clear.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-33543\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hradec Kr\u00e1lov\u00e9, Czech Republic (August 2019)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This was the (distant) view from my hotel (Hotel Alessandria) in Hradec Kr\u00e1lov\u00e9 while I stayed there during the 2019 Brutal Assault Festival. Those spires intrigued me, but I didn&#8217;t have a car, or extra time, to go explore.<\/p>\n<p>When I did have a car, and a bit of time, in 2021, I checked out the Hradec Kr\u00e1lov\u00e9 Old Town. It wasn&#8217;t as impressive as the photo below as at some point in history, someone thought it would be a good idea to turn the Old Town square into a parking lot.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_33544\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Eduard_Gurk_-_Domkirche_und_bischofliche_Residenz_in_Koniggratz_-_1836.jpeg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33544\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Eduard_Gurk_-_Domkirche_und_bischofliche_Residenz_in_Koniggratz_-_1836.jpeg\" alt=\"Eduard_Gurk_-_Domkirche_und_bisch\u00f6fliche_Residenz_in_K\u00f6niggr\u00e4tz_-_1836\" width=\"1024\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-33544\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1836 painting of Hradec Kr\u00e1lov\u00e9 Old Town<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was the (distant) view from my hotel (Hotel Alessandria) in Hradec Kr\u00e1lov\u00e9 while I stayed there during the 2019 Brutal Assault Festival. Those spires intrigued me, but I didn&#8217;t have a car, or extra time, to go explore. When I did have a car, and a bit of time, in 2021, I checked out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[978],"tags":[175,980,535,594],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33542"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33545,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33542\/revisions\/33545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}