AP Photo of Michelle at St. VitusCathedral
The first ladies walked around the St. Vitus Cathedral, the city's most distinctive landmark, which dates to the 10th century.
They then moved to the nearby St. George's basilica, built in the same era, to see the sights and listen to a concert performed by visually impaired children who played "Darmstadter Concert" by Carl Stamitz and "Stabat Mater" by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi.
"She is a natural and a very nice person," Klausova said of Mrs. Obama, to whom she presented a gift of Czech glassware. In return, she said, she got "a nice American vase."
Did they talk politics on a day that buzzed with reports of a North Korean rocket launch?
"Yes, a little bit — we had to," Klausova said.
Mrs. Obama then spent two hours touring the Jewish Quarter's synagogues and unique cemetery. Her visit included a stop at the Pinkas synagogue, whose walls bear the names of more than 80,000 Czech Holocaust victims — including the ancestors of Madeleine Albright, the Czech-born former U.S. secretary of state.
Leo Pavlat, director of Prague's Jewish Museum, said Mrs. Obama liked the inside of the synagogue — "especially the exhibit of children's drawings from the Theresienstadt ghetto." MSNBC
From the AP:
Michelle Obama's whirlwind tour of Prague turned into a love affair with a city and its people. "I'll be back," she said.
Crowds of young Czechs and tourists chanting "Obama! Obama!" waved at the first lady as she walked the cobblestones of the Jewish Quarter. She waved back, and there were no angry faces as far as the eye could see.
"She was totally with them," said Michaela Sidenberg, her guide.
Mrs. Obama's tour started in the morning, when Czech first lady Livia Klausova showed her around Prague Castle, the seat of the Czech presidency.
Having apparently been warned about Prague's omnipresent cobblestones, Mrs. Obama wore flat shoes.
The first ladies walked around the St. Vitus Cathedral, the city's most distinctive landmark, which dates to the 10th century.
They then moved to the nearby St. George's basilica, built in the same era, to see the sights and listen to a concert performed by visually impaired children who played "Darmstadter Concert" by Carl Stamitz and "Stabat Mater" by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi.
"She is a natural and a very nice person," Klausova said of Mrs. Obama, to whom she presented a gift of Czech glassware. In return, she said, she got "a nice American vase."
Did they talk politics on a day that buzzed with reports of a North Korean rocket launch?
"Yes, a little bit — we had to," Klausova said. read more.
