Charles Bridge Statues, Prague - 2006 Summer Vacation
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St. John of Nepomuk - patron saint of the Czechs. Ordered thrown off the bridge by king Wenceslaus IV in the 14th century, in a classic medieval dispute over money and power between the Church and state. The oldest sculpture on the bridge.