What's in a Prague street name

Pankrácké náměstí (Pankrác Square) was built in 1931. I walked around – a lot – and couldn’t find a street sign, so here’s a picture of the square instead. Not Prague’s most beautiful.

However, when it was first built, Pankrácké náměstí included a small stadium, Na Bělce, which belonged to a football club, SK Nusle. They still exist, and currently play in regional competitions: https://sknusle.cz/o-klubu/.

Pankrácké náměstí turned into the concrete ‘beauty’ we know it as today in the 1970s, largely because of the construction of the Klement Gottwald Bridge (now https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/08/21/prague-2-day-86-nuselsky-most/).

And, if anything remained of its past after that, it surely disappeared a few years later when the bridge was joined by a conference centre: https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/02/02/prague-4-day-22-kongresova/.

Meanwhile, if you stumbled upon this hoping for a description of St Pancras or of the district of Pankrác itself, let me suggest you take a look at https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/04/25/prague-4-day-84-na-pankraci/.