Prague's historic golden lane reopens

Kveta Zrustova, 91, can clearly recall the spring day in 1938 when she entered a tiny house in Prague's famed Golden Lane to ask advice from the fortune teller Madame de Thebes.

"I was scared stiff. She was sitting in the corner with a cat on her shoulder," said Zrustova who was 18 and wanted to know how her school exams would go.

Madame de Thebes, who later died during interrogation by the Nazis after predicting the fall of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich, was just one of the colourful real-life residents of the historic street.

Closed since early 2010, the revamped lane at Prague Castle, which is one of the city's top tourist draws, reopened at the start of the month and aims to give visitors a glimpse into the lives of the people who once made it their home. 

Source: Relax.com.sg