Pick up just about any guidebook on the city of Prague in the Czech Republic and you'll probably find a paragraph or two expounding on its unique beauty. While these accounts tend towards hyperbole, the exaggeration is not great. From downtown Staré Město, where everything from grand embassies to
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banal fast-food restaurants are housed in architectural masterpieces, to grimy residential Žižkov, where even the most run-down apartment building is blessed with intricate molding and arches if not statues of saints and cherubs, Prague is literally full of architectural treasures. What the guidebooks don't usually mention, however, is that a significant number of these treasures are marred with graffiti.
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