PLEASE, NO VIDEOS HERE. Members are pleased to invite new people to our group, to find new visions of Plzeň and new great photos! Here's the INVITATION CODE - START COPYING AFTER THIS LINE -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are invited to post this <b>great shot</b> from Plzeň to the group <b><a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/plzen/">Plzeň/Pilsen</a></b> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/katkasamkova/2343294019/"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2357/2343294019_3e28fce857_t.jpg" alt="St.Bartoloměj Cathedral" height="75" width="100" /></a> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- END COPYING ABOVE THIS LINE. It will look like this: You are invited to post this great shot from Plzeň to the group Plzeň/Pilsen -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Plzeň is the fourth biggest city in the Czech Republic. It is a center of West Bohemia and has a dominate position in industrial, commercial, cultural and administrative center. The city has a lng history - it was founded in 1295 and very soon economicaly developed. Nowadays, Plzeň is located on 125 square kilometers and has approximately 167 000 inhabitants. Historical center of the city was declared as a "City Sight Reservation". Most valued sights are especially gotic cathedral of St. Bartoloměj (Bartholomeus), renaissance townhall, baroque rebuildings of the archdiocese and the closter of the order Františkáni and the jewish synagogue, which is the third biggest in the world. During the industrialization there were founded well-known industrial giants - engineering complex Škoda and the brewery Plzeňský Prazdroj.