The landscape in Prague is very green, almost everywhere you look you can see some sort of green. The city is settled between two large hills, with a river running alongside of the city, because of this there are very many beautiful historic bridges connecting different parts of the city. The buildings are also very old in Prague and can be dated from the 19th century and further, most of them are built with the same beige stone as in Vienna but they are dirtier and unkempt. The streets are much more crowed with locals and tourists. When I imagined Prague, I knew it was much more relaxed than Vienna, but I didn't imagine the overall city to be as dirty as it was. It kind of reminded me of a European New York only smaller. The city doesn't really seem to be centered around anything, just filled with winding streets that didn't lead to anywhere specific.
Because Prague was a branch of the royal city of Vienna, I think it accounts for why Prague is not as clean or quiet as Vienna. Because it was not the royal city people didn't have to act according to the strict customs in Vienna, because of this Prague is also a poorer city explaining the run down state that most of the buildings were in. Prague has no royal expectations to live up to so the architect, atmosphere and culture are more relaxed. From this I saw first hand, almost a hundred years later, the influence that the empire had on not only the architect but also the people of Vienna and how because of this Prague became everything the empire was not.
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