With most of the world closed to travel, RFE/RL photo correspondent Amos Chapple has been exploring his home city of Prague -- and hunting down the rooftop characters that have spent many decades and even centuries “self-isolating” above the city’s ancient streets.
The Rooftop Creatures Of Prague

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A grotesque face overlooking the Vltava on the corner of the Czech Republic’s Goethe Institute.

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St. George slaying the dragon on the corner of a building on Parizska Street near Old Town Square.

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A lamp-headed statue on the roof of the Deym Palace.

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A winged figure on the National Museum by Bohuslav Schnirch looking down Wenceslas Square. In 1968, invading Soviet-led forces fired hundreds of machine-gun rounds from the square into the museum's facade, leaving it pocked with bullet holes until 2018, when the building was renovated.