Many tourists traveling with children have a question before visiting Prague: medieval sights, melt-in-your-mouth meat dishes and famous food, this is all good, but what to see and what to do with a child in the capital of the Czech Republic?
We will try to answer this question in this article!
The first thing travelers with children should pay attention to is to look into the children's toy store of the famous London chain Hamleys, located in the very center of the historical part of Prague, near Wenceslas Square. at: Na Prikope 854/14, 110 00 Praha 1-Nove Mesto.
This is much more than just a toy store, it is a real “Children's Paradise”. The whole trick of the store is that in addition to selling toys from all over the world, there are free entertainment and attractions on two floors of the store. The attractions are so varied that the store will find something to their liking, both the youngest visitors, older children and even adults. We, two adults, had a good time in this store.
You can't go past the Hamleys store. While walking along Na Prikope near the entrance to the store you will be greeted by characters from fairy tales and cartoons.
In the Hamleys toy store you can drive racing cars for free or organize racing competitions for the knockout
Learn to operate a large toy excavator
Ride on a children's slide, play Lego, sculpt with plasticine and find many more interesting activities for children and yourself in equipped corners with funny toys. Or just watch a cartoon on TV.
The main features of the Hamleys store in Prague are the Venetian carousel, the hottest attraction - a large children's slide with which you can quickly and joyfully rush from the second to the first floor of the store and the hit of all toys - a fairy-tale talking tree.
Everything in this store moves, talks and comes into your hands. This is aimed at not just buying this or that toy, but seeing with your own eyes and trying them in action, naturally, with the expectation of a subsequent purchase, but this is not at all necessary.
You will get a lot of positive emotions from visiting a Hamleys store, and your children will be delighted. True, after entering the store, only one problem can arise: time flies in the store, and you can’t get the children out of there... Of course, we ourselves forced ourselves to leave and go for a walk further)).
There are stores of this chain in other cities of Europe and Russia - Moscow, St. Petersburg and Krasnodar, but the scale is not the same.
What else to do in Prague with children, what to see?
The fun for children in Prague does not end with the toy store! In the center of Stare Mesto, close to Madame Tussauds Wax Museum/Madame Tussauds Prague.
Madame Tussauds, London brand and world famous wax attraction. This museum features waxed-up Hollywood stars on film sets and iconic characters from your favorite films in full-size and colorful costumes.
The place is quite interesting, suitable for school-age children and adults. Entrance is paid, about 200-250 CZK per person. The wax museum is located in Prague at Celetna 555/6, 110 00 Praha 1-Stare Mesto.
The next place, not far from and can be highlighted Chocolate shop-museum/Choco-Story museum cokolady. This store will be interesting not only for children, but also for adults. In addition to the store itself, which sells various sweets, the store hosts free shows during which sticky caramels are prepared before your eyes. The spectacle is so breathtaking that we even forgot to take photos, which of course we regretted. And after production, the candies, while still warm, are distributed to all spectators for testing. You take the candy into your mouth, and it’s still warm and soft, but it hardens in your mouth in a matter of seconds.
We were delighted with this candy making show. And not only us, but all the spectators from the smallest to pensioners stood with their mouths open. We recommend visiting, especially with children.
In addition to the show and store, a chocolate museum is opened in the same building, within the walls of which you can learn about the history of chocolate, see cocoa beans, visit an exhibition of antique chocolate wrappers, and also taste truffles.
Entrance to the Chocolate Museum is paid, an adult ticket is 270 CZK, a child, student and pensioner ticket (people over 65 years old) is 199 CZK, children under 6 years old accompanied by parents are admitted free of charge. Address of the chocolate museum (store): Celetna 557/10, 110 00 Praha 1-Stare Mesto.
Since we're talking about sweets, there are small shops with various marmalades. Marmalade and other sweets of various shapes, colors and tastes are found in the store directly in wooden barrels. You come up, put as much as you want into a bag, they weigh it at the checkout, the price is the same - 83 crowns or 3 euros per 100 grams.
If your soul asks to deviate from the “sugar” Prague with the Charles Bridge and Prague Castle, we invite you to take a walk through the works of perhaps the most famous contemporary sculptor of the Czech Republic, the master of provocation David Cerny. We came up with a cunning plan to see the best “suchart” of the city in two and a half hours, and at the same time walk through the most pleasant neighborhoods of the capital - so look not only at MAPS.ME, but also around!
1. Babies
Mahlerovy sady 2699/1, Prague 3
The main work of the sculptor, because of which you have definitely heard the name Czerny, awaits you on the Žižkov TV Tower - the tallest building in the capital, which is visible from anywhere in the city. As usual, half of Prague hates the tower, the other loves it. The whole system is three concrete pillars, united by transverse structures (observation platforms), and naked babies climb up the pillars.
Initially, only two Cherny dolls appeared on the tower, which were immediately removed - they thought that the whole structure looked too unreliable. But some of the townspeople thought that the kids had decorated the ugly tower, and the second part agreed that the TV tower couldn’t be made any worse, and they all asked in unison to return the sculptures. Today there are already 10 babies.
2. Horse
Stěpánská 61, Prague 1
20 minutes through the narrow streets, and in the Lucerne arcade you will find David’s second art object. Having passed through the shops and restaurants, in the atrium under the ceiling you will see a sculpture of St. Wenceslas sitting on his dead horse, suspended by its hooves.
If you are soft-hearted and easily persuaded, perhaps the touts in the center managed to drag you on a “classic” tour of Prague. Then you definitely saw the real monument of St. Wenceslas, from which Czerny sculpted - lovers of the Top 10 routes from Tripadvisor constantly make pilgrimages to the monument. Initially, Czerny's work was located directly opposite its prototype, at the other end of the square.
There are many options for what exactly the author wanted to say, just like the rest of Czerny’s works. He ridicules the rush among tourists who come to visit classical monuments in Prague, points out that the Czechs have lost old values, and criticizes modern politics at the same time.
3. K.
Spálená 2121/22, Prague 1
In the courtyard of the Quadrio shopping center you will see perhaps the largest object on our route. This is a giant 11-meter head of Franz Kafka, which is either deformed or folded out of 42 blocks that are in continuous movement. Due to the mirror surface, at first it is difficult to understand that the blocks are moving; it seems that the head simply begins to dissolve on its own and after a few seconds appears on the other side. The place is not for the faint of heart: no matter where you stand, it seems that Kafka is watching you. The writer’s works are difficult to interpret, his personality still remains a mystery, and therefore Czerny captured in this sculpture Kafka’s constant transformation, rejection of the outside world and another transformation.
4. The Hanging Man
Jilská 1, Prague 1
5 minutes from the shopping center along Spálená Street and stop looking at your feet - raise your head and see the figure of a man who is clinging to a beam with one hand and is about to fall. And if there is a strong wind, it even sways!
Those who are accustomed to detecting political mockery in all of Czerny’s works, or who boast good eyesight, are sure that the hanging man is Lenin. Although the author himself explains that this is the figure of Freud, who “stuck” in the unconscious, and also personified the disunity between the common people and the intelligentsia.
Tourists who do not know about this work of art are often afraid that this is a real person who is planning to commit suicide and even periodically report it to the police. Be careful not to get caught!
5. Embryo
Anenské náměstí 209/5, Prague 1
After another 400 meters and 5 minutes of walking, among the classical architecture of the city, you will see something strange on the drainpipe of one of the buildings. The name of the installation speaks for itself - this is the embryo that David Cerny sculpted for the birthday of the Prague Theater. This mass symbolizes the emergence of creativity. In the evening, the figure is illuminated, pulsating with red light and looking quite creepy.
6. Pissing men
Cihelna 2b, Prague 1
In the courtyard of the Franz Kafka Museum there is another famous sculpture - a fountain: two men relieve themselves in a basin-base in the shape of the Czech Republic. The fountain does not just pour water, but writes various patriotic texts. The middle part of the body turns to the sides and, with the help of a special mechanism, writes out words (in every sense of the word). You can also join in contemporary art and order your own phrase for the sculptures by sending a message to the desired number (he texted it right next to the fountain).
7. Where are you going?
Vlašská 19, Prague 1
The artist's first sculpture, which brought him fame. This is a GDR Trabant with human legs instead of wheels. The sculpture recalls the times just before the fall of the Berlin Wall, when residents of eastern Germany fled the country in their cars to Prague, abandoned them and sought political asylum. Now this work is installed at the German Embassy, and you can only look at it from afar - through the fence. If you are not ready to crawl several kilometers upward towards art for the sake of this, then you can skip this point and immediately head to Kampa Park.
8. Babies in Kampa Park
U Sovových mlýnů 503/2, Prague 1
You can take a closer look, take a photo and touch those same babies from the tower in the park on Kampa Island. Three three-meter bronze cubs are located on the approach to the Museum of Modern Art. The peculiarity of the sculptures is the frightening absence of faces in the babies. Instead of eyes and nose there is a dent similar to a bar code. Rumor has it that babies with barcode faces are Czerny's protest against abortion.
9. Monument to sycophancy
Holečkova 789/49, Prague 5
One of the most provocative works of the “Czech Banksy” can be found in the Future Gallery of Contemporary Art. Two sexless and headless human figures are bent at an angle of 90° and turned with their backs towards you, as if inviting you to look into it (they even set up a ladder for this!). The sculpture itself does not need any explanation, especially if we take into account the original title of the work - Brown Nosing.
But if you decide to look through the hole, you will see another political subtext - a video with former President Vaclav Klaus and artist Milan Knizek eating porridge against the backdrop of the Queen song “We Are The Champions”.
10. Meet Factory
Ke Sklarně 3213/15, Prague 5
To reach the final point of the route, you will have to make a final push of 4 km or take a ride on tram No. 12 or 20. Meet Factory is both an art space and an art object at the same time. Meet Factory is located in a former railway administration building, which was given to David Czerny to turn into a residence for creativity. This is something like Andy Warhol's Factory: it houses fashionable studios, theater workshops, exhibition spaces, a bookstore and even a bar. This is where you can get into the spirit of the Czech rebel sculptor or even meet him himself. And if you have an overdose of contemporary art, here you can just drink a beer and indulge.
The duration of the route is 2 hours 30 minutes.
Photo - alesjungmann.cz, frank-udo-tielmann.photoshelter.com, whenonearth.net, holeinthedonut.com
Well, in 2000 the tower finally said goodbye to its so-called communist past, because it was established that, Tanechka?
Because it was established that, Tanechka?
The “Babies” sculptures from the contemporary Czech sculptor David Černý were installed on it. You've probably heard his name a lot lately, as he created a panel for the Czech Republic's presidency of the European Union.
This is how another scandalous sculpture “Entropa” was born. But this, of course, is a separate conversation. Nevertheless, these babies crawling up and down the tower can be observed over the next 20 years, they merged so organically with the structure.
The most interesting thing is that when these kids were hung on the tower, they were removed from there in the winter of 2001 because they were afraid that snow would start falling and they would fall out of there along with the snow and kill someone. But within a few months, the people of Prague had already become so attached to the babies that they began an active campaign for their return, and soon the babies returned.
By the way, David Cherny is such a funny artist that he posted the following information on his website: “Currently, the expected period for babies to stay on the tower is 10-20 years. That is, until they fall off on their own. Everyone hopes that doesn't happen, but who knows." These are the words that accompany his work.
Olechka, have you noticed that all the babies crawling around the tower are without faces?
I noticed it, but I don’t know what it’s connected with.
There was a campaign against abortion in the Czech Republic, and now David Cerny found a solution to express his protest against abortion. He created babies without faces.
I think it's very thoughtful. But David Cherny is known for the fact that he is not such a simple artist, and all his works have deep subtext. By the way, I must say that there is rarely a crush on the tower, and now there is an elderly couple with us on the observation deck. We decided to ask them why they climbed this tower?
“This is our first time here. In general, we are not from Prague, but from the city of Benesov near Prague. We have been wanting to come here for a long time, and we finally succeeded, which we are very happy about. And we climbed the tower to see the view of Prague from here, and we were not disappointed - it was very beautiful!”
Well, we’ve probably told you enough about the tower, and, in conclusion, perhaps to summarize, let’s say that the tower is an honorary member of the World Federation of Tall Towers. By the way, here on the walls you can see photographs of her “colleagues.”
For example, a tower in Chicago, whose height is 444 meters, in Auckland, in New Zealand - there the tower rises 328 meters above the ground, a tower in Melbourne, in Australia, whose height is 270 meters, and, by the way, in the capital of Uzbekistan - in Tashkent, its height is 375 meters.
- We have already said that Prague residents have different attitudes towards the tower; many residents of the city still do not like it and say that it offers the best view of Prague, since the tower itself is not visible from it. By the way, this saying is attributed to Guy de Maupassant, who said the same thing about the Eiffel Tower.
Perhaps it may be so, but, to be honest, this tower is deeply attractive to me, perhaps because I have no reminiscences of the communist past.
But I like it because babies crawl on it, and it turned from socialist realism into a surreal building.
Absolutely right, Tanechka. Well, on this optimistic note we will probably say goodbye to you. By the way, we here, Tanya, did not perform one of our favorite rituals with you. Guess which one?
Jump from a tower?
No, have some coffee! Because there is also a good restaurant here. But we will leave this to the discretion of our radio listeners, who, perhaps, when visiting Prague, will want to visit it and drink a cup of coffee here, enjoying the beautiful views of Prague.
And with this we say goodbye to you! Olya Vasinkevich and Tanya Krzhelinova were with you. Let's hear you!
Blucifer is terrible, and this is made even worse by its location - near the Denver airport. Blucifer is not actually the statue's real name; this is just one of the few "gentle" nicknames that the city's residents gave him. Among them are "Blue Stallion of Death" and "Satan's Horse". The original name of the statue is "Blue Mustang", but you only have to look at the statue to understand where its nicknames come from. In theory, this is a rearing, snorting, anatomically correct horse. But, looking into her burning red eyes, you understand that this is Satan’s horse.
It's no surprise that many Denver residents don't like this statue. She brought nothing but misfortune even to her creator. Luis Jimenez was working almost 10 meters above the 4,100 kg statue when it killed him. A fragment of the statue fell on the sculptor.
Moreover, they consider this horse to be a kind of symbol that confirms their theory. They are convinced that Denver International Airport is actually a secret base from which the signal will be given to begin the restructuring of society. When the construction of the airport revealed that the budget had been exceeded, and the construction itself had dragged on for several years longer than planned, rumors arose that additional time and money were needed to build a huge underground bunker where the government would hide and from where it could conduct its activities. after the end of the world. Now some think that the horse is a clear proof of this, since it undoubtedly represents one of the horses of the Apocalypse from the Book of Revelation.
2. Quetzalcoatl in San Jose
Quetzalcoatl was an ancient Aztec god who was part serpent, part bird, and part fire dragon. He is the head of the Aztec pantheon of gods.
In 1992, sculptor Robert Graham was asked to create a statue which will not only be the main artistic attraction of the city, but will also pay respect to the Spanish-speaking families who call this city home, and will also serve as a reminder of the people who founded it and lived on this land. This is how Quetzalcoatl was created.
We don't know what mattered more - the sculptor's ambition or the $500,000 he received from the city. Graham originally planned for a huge bronze statue, but then those plans morphed into something else.
When the city's arts council approved the statue's new design, no one was privy to the plans. Previously, Graham had already had to deal with dissatisfaction from customers, so until the opening the sculpture was not available for viewing.
After opening the statue people started putting their little dogs on top of the statue, which resulted in a lot of pretty funny photos.
But when they got tired of these entertainments, people realized that the statue was clearly unsuccessful, since it offended the feelings of some groups of the population. Many did not want part of their cultural and spiritual heritage to be remembered at all, since Quetzalcoatl was one of the gods who supposedly taught the art of removing the still beating heart from the victim's body.
Hundreds of people protested against the monument, opening one of the worst chapters in the history of San Jose. This was the second attempt to create a major cultural attraction, which failed miserably. The first effort was the unveiling of a statue of the 19th-century commander who captured San Jose and wrested the territory from Mexican control.
3. Faceless Babies of Prague
Prague is a strange place. It has the Žižkov TV Tower, a 216-meter nightmare for the eye, the tallest building in the country. It has received many awards as the best building, but also ranks second on the list of the ugliest buildings in the Czech Republic.
Instead of just accepting the title of "ugly building", the city has tried to make it more attractive. Obviously, in Prague, this means adding something that would give viewers many nightmares.
In 2000, 10 giant faceless children appeared in different places of the tower, crawling up and down on it. This is the work of one of the creepiest and most controversial artists in the city - David Cherny. Huge fiberglass babies also appeared in Kampa Park.
Three more children are accommodated in Kampa Park, and they perhaps cause even more horror (if this is possible, of course). Park visitors can see that these little babies, made of bronze instead of fiberglass, aren't completely faceless, although they do have strangely misshapen heads. Did their faces disappear or were they sucked in? In fact, we would rather not know about it.
4. Virgin Mother and Truth
Like many other artists, Damien Hirst is also a rather controversial character. But that's not the only reason it's controversial. His statues of the Virgin Mother and Truth leave passersby with absolutely no choice but to look at them and be horrified
Virgin mother Both Truth and the Virgin Mother are enormous in size and both are pregnant. This can be argued because they were partially “skinned” to expose everything that was inside - from muscle tissue to the unborn fetus. The height of the Virgin Mother is 10 meters and weighs 13 tons. It was purchased in 2014 by a Manhattan real estate tycoon whose neighbors soon went to war with him.
And Truth, made in almost the same “pregnant woman with her skin removed” style, is even larger. She is over 20 meters tall, holds a sword above her head and looks out over North Devon. According to Hirst, it is on a long-term lease, but it is understandable that many residents of the English seaside town are feeling some anxiety. While some call the statue a great tourist attraction, others think it looks a little Hannibal Lecter-esque.
The truth was installed at the port under a rental program for a period of 20 years. Although this was not done entirely out of the artist’s kindness - Hirst has a house nearby, as well as a restaurant overlooking this monstrous statue. Since the installation of the statue, the restaurant has been constantly filled with customers.
5. Headless statue
Behind the post office of the city of Legazpi in the Philippines, a rather frightening sight opens up: a monument in the form of a kneeling headless figure. Her posture implies that the blade came down just a second ago. There are more questions about the statue than answers.
One of the official versions is that the statue is a memorial to the war heroes of the Bicol people, who died during World War II. There is another statue (less creepy) located in Naga City that commemorates the Bicol martyrs whose executions sparked local support for the Philippine Revolution.
According to local legends On November 22, 1945, workers discovered a headless body buried in the sand of Elbay Bay in Sabang. Since his uniform was in almost perfect condition, they decided that he had been in the sand for a short time. But the head was never found. A benefactor of one of the city's colleges wanted to preserve the memory of the man and commissioned the erection of a statue, but only after the body was carried in a parade through the city.
How true this is, we don't know. There are no documents left to trace the history of the decapitated body or the commission for the installation of the statue, although quite a few people claim to remember what happened. Local historians have no idea what the real history was, and neither does the National Institute of History of the country.
6. Cloak of Conscience
The Cloak of Conscience is a sculpture that is terrifying, but at the same time strangely beautiful. It has different versions that continuously appear throughout Europe in the work of the artist Anna Chromie.
A cloaked figure with downcast eyes and slumped shoulders first appeared in the background of a painting she painted in 1980. At that time it was not even assumed that this would be a depiction of a real figure. The figure was empty and showed that nothing remained of the old woman except the rags of her cloak.
This theme appeared again when Anna first turned to sculpture. This time the idea was embodied in the form of an empty cloak, which was supposed to symbolize the road along which we all walk in life - the road the image of which is given by our conscience.
The response to the statue was overwhelming, and the artist decided to create other versions of it. She created a small number of relatively normal-sized sculptures of the empty cloak before creating her main sculpture.
Even the marble used to create the sculpture has its own story. It was mined from the same quarry from which the marble for Michelangelo's works was supplied. This quarry is the only one in the world where large enough pieces of marble can still be obtained, and the one Chromie required for her mysterious and sinister sculpture weighed 200 tons. It was so huge that most of the initial work took place in the quarry.
Smaller versions of the Cloak have been installed in various locations across Europe, from Rome to Monaco and Prague.
7. Wickham Headless Statue Park
This park, located along a rural road near Palmyra, Tennessee, is a creepy collection of statues. They weren't always this scary, and they were never even expected to become this way.
After the death of their creator Enoch Tanner Wickham The statues were victims not only of Tennessee weather, but also of vandalism. For more than two decades, the tobacco farmer painstakingly created his statues. After retiring, he expressed his love for art and sculpture in this way.
He created statues of birds and oxen, several men sitting on horseback, and groups of people. There are also figures of Tecumseh, Andrew Jackson and Daniel Boone standing next to a bull, as well as a statue of Sitting Bull. But after Wickham's death in 1970, bad things began to happen to his sculptures, eventually causing them to look like something out of a horror movie set in the backwaters of the Deep South.
Not one of them managed to save their heads, and most are also missing limbs. They are pierced by bullets, rammed or hit by trucks, and some are completely broken and thrown off their pedestals. These pedestals, which were once inscribed with the names of the statues and short poems about their importance to the country, were also destroyed.
The result is not only creepy, it is also sad. Attempts were made to save some of these works of art, and some were moved to another location and fenced with wire to protect them from vandals. This is a rather tragic result of the work of a man who was a sculptor only because of his love for this work.
8. Moving statue of Neb-Sanu
This ancient Egyptian figurine of Neb-Sanu is behind glass in the Manchester Museum in England and looks very similar to a typical Egyptian figurine. It is small in size, only about 25 cm in height. But something incomprehensible happens to it: the figurine began to move inside the closed display case.
For some time no one noticed that her position changed during the day. Museum caretakers noticed this, apparently quite by accident, and set up a camera to follow the figurine. And when you watch the footage in slow motion, you can actually see it moving throughout the day.
The figurine, which is about 4,000 years old, was originally an offering to Osiris. It was in the museum's collection for 80 years, and no oddities were noticed about it, but its movements gave rise to many theories. Some have suggested that the figurine was actually home to the spirit of the person it represented, while another theory suggested that the figurine turning exactly 180 degrees did so to show viewers the inscription on its back that gave instructions for the offering. Osiris "bread, beer, oxen and birds."
The real explanation was much more mundane and completely uninteresting. Physicist Brian Cox figured out the mystery and proved that the figurine rotates without anyone's help under the influence of slight vibrations that create friction between it and the glass shelf.
9. Saint Wenceslas on horseback
St. Wenceslas was created by the same sculptor who created giant faceless crawling children. For reference: Saint Wenceslas is the patron saint of the Czech Republic, and another statue of him (much more majestic and less terrible) is installed on Wenceslas Square in Prague. And he’s sitting there on a completely normal horse.
Saint Wenceslas of David the Black sits not just on a dead horse, but on a horse suspended upside down. She has a limp body, a lifelessly dangling head and a protruding tongue.
When the statue was installed at the opposite end of Wenceslas Square, the dead horse made an even more bizarre contrast with the proud figure of the saint who sat on it. The face of this Vaclav statue bore a striking resemblance to then-President Vaclav Klaus, and this did not go unnoticed.
The depiction of a saint is not just blasphemous. It was interpreted as something absolutely revolutionary. The normal vertical statue of the saint at the other end of the square had long been the central place of the city where residents gathered. It was there that they celebrated victories and gathered in difficult times. The inscription on the monument was a reminder of their strength and a call to perseverance, which makes the statue of another Wenceslas with his creepy dead horse even more disturbing.
Folklore also has an interesting remark about Saint Wenceslas. It is believed that, by analogy with the English King Arthur, Wenceslas and his knights are simply sleeping and waiting for the hour when their country needs them, and then they will saddle their horses again.
10. Wang Saen Suk: Buddhist Hell
The Buddhist tradition is best known for its idea of rebirth. Getting another chance to succeed in life is an incredibly attractive idea. Less attractive is the idea that you will have to wait a while before getting a new body. When a person dies, his actions are evaluated and weighed. If the bad outweighs the good, then the soul goes straight to hell to pay for its evil deeds before it is given another body. A very evil soul can spend thousands of lifetimes waiting in a Buddhist hell, paying for the atrocities he has committed. So if you've ever wondered what Naraka, the Buddhist hell, looks like, visit Wan Saen Suk.
Two statues that greet you upon entering(if the word “greeting” is appropriate here) - these are the souls of deceased men and women, “preta”. They appear to be quite a scary pair who roam the Earth in constant thirst and hunger. As is the case with many types of spirits and otherworldly beings, there are different interpretations of whether the preta lives separately from the spirit, which pays for its worldly sins. Some pretas can only feed on vomit and pus, while others, as a punishment, have such a narrow throat that they constantly feel suffocated and therefore cannot eat, drink, or breathe. Some preta are enormous in size, constantly crying, burning, or being moved by the wind.
And as if this were not enough to frighten sinners, there is a whole area with statues that leave nothing to the imagination and show visitors what will happen to them if they stray from the path of goodness and light. Some people are sawed in half or crushed in vices, while others are doomed to wander, bleeding due to the weapons left in their bodies. People are chewed by predators, and birds eat their entrails.
It's all terrible enough but there is also a special place that is reserved for a special type of sinner: those who used physical violence against their own parents or monks. There is a special pit prepared for them in hell, and they will not be able to get out of there until a new Buddha is born.
