Friday, December 9, 2011

Queen Europe

Recently I visited Prague where I found in one of the museums this interesting representation of Europe, depicted as a queen. I shows Bohemia, Prague as the very heart of Europe, Portugal as the crown and Spain as the face. The right hand holds a orb, symbolizing the domination over the world, probably by the Catholic Church. Sadly enough, my poor little country The Netherlands is not even mentioned on the map.
If you want to know more about this map, check out the very interesting information on wikipedia.org.
It would be interesting if someone would draw such representation of contemporary Europe in its current crisis.

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