What's in a Prague street name

Originally published on X on 9 March 2024.

Predictability alert: yesterday, we talked about gold and goldsmiths (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/10/03/prague-1-day-165-zlata/); today, we’re on silver and silversmiths.

An alley rather than a full-on street, Stříbrná was built in order for water to be carried to St Anne’s Convent (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/10/03/prague-1-day-163-anenske-namesti/) in case of fire.

Good luck to anybody trying that these days, though – the street is so narrow that cars aren’t allowed to pass through it, let alone fire engines.

For vocab fans, a ‘stříbrný důl’ is a silver mine, a ‘stříbrná medaile’ is a silver medal, a ‘stříbrná svatba’ is a silver wedding, and the ‘stříbrné plátno’ is the silver screen.