Word: vltava
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...deepest layer of Prague is spiky, medieval, dark with coal dust. For years Vaclav Havel could look out from his dilapidated apartment building, across the fast, shallow Vltava River, and see the castle on the hill -- Hradcany, the high, elaborate complex that dominates the city. He could cross the river by the 14th century Charles Bridge, lined on either side with beseeching, tormented statuary -- church fathers, age-blackened saints...
...hotel's restaurant. In Poland one may have to stand in line for barszcz (beet soup) and golabki (meat-filled rolled cabbage). In Prague if one hankers after crisp roast duck and three kinds of dumplings at a restaurant with a view of Hradcany Castle and the Vltava River, one must reserve several days ahead...
...passion is not for possessions or power but for giving life a purpose. That is why the people of Czechoslovakia were able to do last week what the government never could: persuade him to move out of the flat built by his father, with its sweeping views of the Vltava River and the Hradcany castle complex, across the river into the castle itself. It is Prague's presidential palace. And it is now, in an era of electric change, the dissident's home...
About 2000 demonstrators split away and crossed a bridge over the Vltava river in an apparent attempt to reach the hillside presidential residence...
...least one morning in taxing discussions about the Polish crisis with party officials from other countries. But he was rarely seen in public, and between congress sessions spent long periods napping, either in his suite at the presidential palace overlooking Prague's historic Charles Bridge and the Vltava River, or in special rooms reserved for him at the Palace of Culture itself. Both places, it was reported, were outfitted with special oxygen and medical equipment. As is usually the case when he travels abroad, he was accompanied by a doctor with selected medicines and supplies of his blood type...