Revealed Prague underground
The subterranean areas of Prague hide much more. There is something that you would not find in every large city: the
collector network in which most of the buried services, necessary for life of this modern metropolitan city, are located. These places, totally unknown to most native Praguers, have been made accessible to the general public.
Guided by a professional guide, you can even visit the underground areas 40 metres deep. You will walk under historical monuments such as the Powder Gate, the Municipal House, Old Town Square, Týn Church, etc. You can see the central control station, equipped with a state-of-the-art and one of the most extensive monitoring systems in the world. You can visit an underground railway station and take a ride in an underground railway engine. For more detailed information about tours in the Prague underground areas click
here.
The Prague Waterworks Museum
Another new attraction for tourists who would like to know more about Prague and its technical monuments is the
Prague Waterworks Museum and Podolí Waterworks (map). Among other things, you will get to know how water taps are capable of supplying clean water. The question is not silly at all: are you sure you know the answer? By the way, health offices have declared several times that the quality of the water supplied from the water systems in Prague is higher than the quality of many of bottled water.
Both the collectors and the Prague Waterworks Museum and Podolí Waterworks have been made open to the public thanks to a project for development of experience and educational tourism in the capital city of the Czech Republic.
Experience and educational tourism is one of the newest types of tourism. The objective is to offer active forms of education, which is based on a strong emotional experience. Concisely, it follows from a paraphrased quotation of Julius Caesars, "Veni, vidi, vici" – the only difference is that the word "vici" (I conquered) is replaced by the "vixi" (I experienced).
Author:
Andrea Kábelová
Source: Hospodárská komora hl. m. Prahy, Kolektory Praha, a.s., Pražské vodovody a kanalizace, a.s.
Added:
15.06.2010