What's in a Prague street name

Originally published on X on 7 March 2024.

Announcement: the rest of the Prague 1 series is going to involve quite a lot of these ‘but I already said everything yesterday’ threads. Which, to be fair, I’m totally fine with.

And with that, here’s a link to https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/10/03/prague-1-day-163-anenske-namesti/.

However, I’m too pedantic to not give bonus material, so here’s a nice pic of number 11, Čejkovský palác.

The first floor used to host a music school, one of whose pupils was a young Bedřich Smetana (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/09/30/prague-1-day-156-smetanovo-nabrezi-smetana-embankment/).

It’s also rumoured that, in 1841, Josef Kajetán Tyl (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/07/01/prague-2-day-53-tylovo-namesti/) and František Ladislav Rieger lived in there.

It might need a new coat of paint, but look at the state it was in a few years ago: https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%8Cejkovsk%C3%BD_pal%C3%A1c#/media/Soubor:%C4%8Cejkovsk%C3%BD_pal%C3%A1c_pavla%C4%8D_03.JPG