Isaac@Praha (2024)
爾德@布拉格 (2024)

The capital of Bohemia which was marginally spared by Allied bombing in WWII, has more than thousand years of history witnessing conflict, tyranny and stupidity of humankind - the Soviets, the Nazi Germany/Third Reich, the Habsburg, the Thirty Years' War, the Hussite Wars, the Ottomans etc.

This city is so unique in the centre of central Europe that: -

1. The Bohemians have language and culture distinctive from the Deutsch (germans), even though Kingdom of Bohemia was one of the Electors to elect the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (which is hardly holy, roman or even an empire) and this city was the de facto capital of the HRE as the seat of the early emperors from the House of Luxembourg

2. It has the highest percentage of atheists among Europe, due to centuries of religious tensions and wars between the Catholics and the Protestants, nailed by the execution of Jus Hus (a Czech Catholic priest who raised challenges to the Catholic teachings) in 1415 by the Catholic Church for heresy

3. It has people with the strongest opinions against the communists, after the invasion by the Soviets in 1968 to reverse the peaceful reformation of the Czech communist government and imposition of brutal communist tyranny for decades until the fall of the communism

4. It has witnessed vibrant recovery and thrilling development after the fall of the communists, despite being part of the eastern bloc for decades under the Soviets