Inverted horse

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Inverted horse

       The inverted horse, sticking out his tongue, hangs under the dome of Lucerne's passage. Every self-respecting tourist, who knows about the presence of an inverted horse, considers it his duty to take pictures with him. And especially advanced - also tear off the inverted horse language. True, for this it is necessary to show a special wit - the monument still hangs high enough. Nevertheless, the periodically turned horse remains without a tongue.
       But not everything is so simple and funny with this sculpture. In fact, its author laid a deep meaning in the monument, which in time was understood and accepted by many local residents. According to legend, the horse will hang in such a state until "in the lands of the Crown of Czechs the Constitutional monarchy does not triumph."

The monument

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The monument

The head is made of stainless steel, polished to a mirror finish, and a huge number of wires and other electrical equipment that drives the transformation mechanism. The monument, as conceived at the very beginning, is really in a state of permanent work, and only under adverse weather conditions, snowfall or severe frost, is it hidden under a special "wrapper".

The height of the sculpture is 10 m, and it weighs more than 45 tons. Actually, the head is made up of 42 discs that can rotate in different directions. The weight of these disks is 38 tons, everything else is for electrical equipment, in particular, for electrical wires with a total length of more than 1 km. The discs installed in the original, preset position form a portrait of Franz Kafka in three-dimensional space.

Prague aeration station (museum) - a former underground plant for treatment plants in Prague

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Prague aeration station (museum) - a former underground plant for treatment plants in Prague

         In its current form, the sewage system in European cities began to form at the beginning of the XIX century. Before this, the sewage merged directly into the street. In the cities there was a strong stench, and so long could not continue. In 1889, an international competition for the construction of sewerage in Prague was announced.
         The winner was the engineer Lindley. To work on the Prague sewer system Lindley first came as an expert who evaluated the designs of two Czech engineers, and after familiarizing himself with the terrain, he rejected both. For example, they did not sufficiently solve the problem of the system during the flood and how many natural underground tributaries will be allocated. Therefore, he was asked to create his own project, which included the best ideas of the previous ones. The Czech projects were not bad, but Lindley had experience in sewage construction in several large cities. He knew that one could not rely on diluting sewage with river water and that the city should have its treatment facilities. Past projects did not take into account population growth, and Lindley decided to build a system based on the population of a million people. As a result, a huge system of collectors for sewage and rainwater was built, as well as an underground plant for treatment plants.
Prague expanded, the amount of impurities also increased, and by the 1980s, a more powerful cleaning station was built in the city, and Lindleevskaya was restored and converted into a museum.