At a strike of a each hour, a bunch of excited tourists swarm underneath the Prague’s famous astronomical clock. You can hear English, Japanese, German, Italian or Chinese spoken, but Czech language is a rarity. Once the clock strikes, the commotion begins: bells start to ring as a parade of 12 apostles circles in and out of the clock, with a scary figure of an antique skeleton finishing up the round, while ringing his sad little bell.
A similar performance can be seen now in Slovakia as well. Yesterday marked a historical unveiling of a new astronomical clock in Stara Bystrica – the first moving astronomical clock in Slovakia ever! Compared to the Czech clock, the Slovak astronomical clock can be observed also from behind,meaning that the visitors can observe how the complicated machinery really works.
The first You Tube video that I found shows a Slovak family poking fun of their ‘home-made’ astronomical clock in 2005 (little did they know they predicted the future) and the second video shows the real-deal Slovak astronomical clock which is about 2 days old now :0)
CZ: 15 minut pred celou se pod prazskym Orlojem sebehnou masy turistu a nedockave ocekavaji az orloj spusti svou oblibenou pisnicku: zvony zacnou znit o sto sest a z malebnych okynek zacnou vychazet drevene postavicky 12ti apostolu, ktere doprovazi jako posledni vseznama smrtka se zvoncem.
Podobne predstaveni muzou dnes videt take navstevnici Slovenska a to mesta zvaneho Stara Bistrice. Toto horske mesto je tak domovem historicky prvnich astronomickych hodin na Slovensku! Ve srovnani s ceskym orlojem se bude na hodiny take mozno podivat zevnitr, tedy aby se navstevnici blize seznamily se samotnou mechanikou onech hodin.
Prvni video je parodie na tzv. neexistujici slovensky orloj (video bylo filmovane v roce 2005), ani nevedeli, ze tam vlastne predpovidaji budoucnost; o 4 roky pozdeji se totiz mohou tesit z opravdoveho slovenskeho orloje (viz. druhe video).
http://kysuce.sme.sk/c/4876158/prace-na-prvom-slovenskom-pohyblivom-orloji-su-vo-finale.html
If you liked this post buy me a coffee! (Suggested:$3 a latte $8 for a pound) Thanks!
Loading ...
The roof work is almost more impressive to me than the clock. The singing was beautiful too.
I know, that roof is amazing! You should see the surrounding nature of that town…it is so beautiful!! Mountains, mountains and more mountains..
I only hope the faith of the Slovak “orloj” creator will not be the same as that of the creator of the Prague “orloj”
So what happened to him again? Can you refresh our (or mine) memory? Thanks Vlastimil!
The pic of the clock reminded me of our tour of the clock associated with the Hall of Mirrors. Our guide was a delightful Czech man who let us go out on the walk around used by workman on the clock. The views of Prague were incredible but our guide was a joy. My husband loved all the old navagational tools. I loved the library and the views from the tower. Thanks for reminding me of that great joy.
Hi MaryLena,
I am glad you had a good tour guide – those can be sometimes pretty dull! 😉 How awesome that he led you behind the clock! I wonder if that is like a standard or if this guy was just special that way..
IT IS A WONDERFULCLOCK. It has many similarities with the Antikythera Mechanism that is an astronomical clock of the 2nd century BC now at Athens Archaeological Museum.
If some one wishes to be updated with latest technologies after that he must be go to see this web page and
be up to date everyday.