Hrbitova Street in Josefov
Hrbitova Street looking
toward the pink Old Town Hall on Maiselova street
Even in October, the streets of Josefov
were crowded with tourists on walking tours of the old Jewish
quarter in 2000 when I visited. The whole area is a tourist trap
with sourvenir stands selling puppets, statues of the golem,
post cards, photographs of Franz Kafka and carved wooden figures
of Orthodox Jews wearing their traditional clothing.
On the right in the picture above, tourists
crowd around the street vendors' stalls on Hrbitova Street, looking
for sourvenirs of their visit. This picture is the view looking
east toward the intersection of Maiselova and Hrbitova, taken
from the entrance to the Klausen Synagogue which is at the other
end of this street, behind the camera. On the left side of the
picture, you see tourists looking at the windows of the sourvenir
shops, and in the center is a tour group, listening as their
guide tells them about the Old Town Hall, the pink building in
front of them.
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