The subterranean world beneath the Estates Theatre was an ancient, dripping cavern of forgotten Bohemian history. While the gilded audience above listened to the soaring arias of Italian opera, the stone corridors below had witnessed the clandestine meetings of the Hussite rebellion, the secret vaults of Habsburg alchemists, and the cold-war bunkers of the Czechoslovak secret police. Water dripped in a slow, rhythmic cadence from the vaulted Romanesque arches, pooling…
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