What's in a Prague street name

Originally published on X on 5 April 2023.

Palackého most (Palacký Bridge) was opened in 1878. Turns out Prague bridges don’t tend to get street signs, so here’s a couple of pics instead.

We can keep this one fairly brief, as František Palacký was covered yesterday: https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/08/31/prague-2-day-145-palackeho-namesti/

During the Nazi occupation, the bridge was called Mozartův most.

Some quick bridge trivia: it’s the third-oldest bridge across the Vltava, and the first to have trams going across it (initially steered by horses).

The bridge was also painted in the national colours when first opened; it’s decidedly less colourful now.

Here’s a pic of the bridge from 1890, the year Prague got badly flooded.

It also used to have magnificent sculptures by Josef Václav Myslbek, featuring Ctirad, Šárka, Libuše, Přemysl, Lumir, Píseň, Záboj, Slavoj, many of whom have come up in this series.

After Allied bombing in 1945, they were moved to Vyšehrad.