As I showed you a less exquisite Art Nouveau building yesterday, I figured it would be nice to show you a real beautiful one today! The building I picked is called “Restaurant at the Old Synagogue”. It is located in Josefov (Jewish quarter) in Prague.
Josefov (Josefstadt in German) is a town quarter of Prague (Czech Republic), formerly the Jewish ghetto of the town. It is completely surrounded by the Old Town. Most of the quarter was demolished between 1893 and 1913 as part of an initiative to model the city after Paris. What was left were only six synagogues, the old cemetery, and the Old Jewish Town Hall (now all part of the Jewish Museum in Prague and described below). And as all Josefov was re-built at the beginning of the 20th century, nowadays the dominant architectural style there is Art Nouveau.
In Austria Art Nouveau was called Secession Style. As also Bohemia was a part of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy at that time, the Art Nouveau buildings of Prague are also called secession buildings. Their architecture was influenced by the Vienna Secession.
I took this photo about 5~6 years ago, and at that time I didn’t know that I was going to blog about Art Nouveau. So, in order to be able to show you more details of the building, I have borrowed below pictures from the www. I hope you like today’s building?!?
About Art Nouveau 
Hi, I am passing the One Lovely Award to you, by nominating your blog, if you like it you may pass it on too.
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Denise
Hi Denise,
I don’t know what the ‘One Lovely Award’ is, but I am honored anyways! Thank you.
And the link you gave me doesn’t work… Did you mean to send me a link to your post about the Japanese exhibition? I will read it today, as soon as the kids leave me some time to myself…. Thanks again,
Olga
http://speakingabouttravel2.wordpress.com/2012/08/31/one-lovely-blog-award/
oops sorry, if that link doesn’t work. I will have to check all the others. Here it is again. If you accept the nomination, just follow the instructions mentioned in my post. Thanks.
Denise
Hi Denise, now the link works! Thank you again for the nomination! I have just started to blog and I have not seen any other blogs yet, except for yours! It’s therefore going to be very difficult for me to nominate 15 other blogs… I will have to do some serious reading in order to be able to nominate … to be continued!