Dripstone Wall — Attraction in Prague

This is got to be one of the stupidest tourist attractions in Prague. The wall is obviously artificial... I knew it beforehand. I went there for a concert and saw it reluctantly. It looks like mud dripping down a wall and making it thoroughly useless as a wall. Yeah, There's plaque explaining the logic behind it... baroque symbolism and iconography and occult melding together yadda yadda yadda. After reading the plaque thoroughly, the wall still felt pretty stupid! I didn't take any pictures. It's not worth wasting even digital...

Amazing and frightening at the same time, these weird somewhat randomized shapes create a sense of fear and danger but then again you ask yourself why and how could the artist create such a thing, it's just fabulous. I mean it's not like it's a ghost, or a mummy or a dangerous looking face or a wild animal but still we feel fearful maybe because we cannot fathom what it actually is. The description says that there are shapes of frogs and snakes in it but I could not find them, I could only locate a human face on the top right...

Artificial stalactite cave comes as well as the entire Baroque garden from the mid-17th century. The garden was built at the instigation of the commander, Albrecht of Wallenstein, who invited the Italian builder. There were several of them - Andrea Spezza, after his death in 1628 Niccolo Sebregondi and then Giovanni Pieroni. Grotta formed a space where a visitor could hide from the sun or in bad weather. There was also a marble water tank where people could refresh themselves. The cave was built using stone masonry. The stalactites themselves are formed from roofing material made of a burnt clay, wooden fittings, wires, and various small elements that mimic the stalagmites in their shape.

Umělá krápníková jeskyně pochází stejně jako celá barokní zahrada z poloviny 17. století. Zahrada vznikla na popud vojevůdce Albrechta z Valdštejna, který si sem přizval italské stavitele. Vystřídalo se jich zde několik – Andrea Spezza, po jeho smrti v roce 1628 Niccolo Sebregondi a poté Giovanni Pieroni. Grotta tvořila prostor, kde by se návštěvník zahrad mohl ukrýt před sluncem či za špatného počasí. Byla zde i mramorová nádrž na vodu, kde se lidé mohli občerstvit. Jeskyně byla vytvořena pomocí kamenného zdiva. Samotné krápníky tvoří prejzy, tedy střešní krytina z pálené hlíny, dřevěné armatury, dráty a různé drobné prvky, které svým tvarem...