What's in a Prague street name

Originally published on Twitter on 22 June 2022.

Mezi Domky was built in 1925. It translates as ‘Between the houses’.

The street is so named because of its location, between houses built as Prague’s population soared in the early 1920s.

A domek is smaller than a regular dům.

However, many of these houses are no more and have been replaced by high(-ish) rises.

Some useful phrases of which domek is part: a řadový domek is a terraced house, a zahradní domek is a garden shed, and a montovaný domek is a kit home.