What's in a Prague street name

Pod Vyšehradem is very old indeed, but wasn’t named until the 1940s.

It is, quite literally, ‘below Vyšehrad’ – and, if you don’t know Vyšehrad, feel free to take a look through some of the Prague 2 posts, eg https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/08/24/prague-2-day-95-v-pevnosti/, https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/08/23/prague-2-day-93-libusina/ and https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/08/24/prague-2-day-94-k-rotunde/.

There’s also one about Vyšehrad Street itself (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/08/26/prague-2-day-118-vysehradska/), but I think those are a better read.

Then there’s the story of the Battle of Vyšehrad in 1420: https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/02/01/prague-4-day-21-na-vitezne-plani/.

Back on Pod Vyšehradem itself, I quite like the neo-Romanesque Church St Michael the Archangel in Podolí / Kostel svatého Michaela archanděla v Podolí, also simply known as St Michael’s.

Speaking of St Michael, here’s a pretty varied and photo-heavy post from when I was writing about Prague 1: https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/10/07/prague-1-day-173-michalska/.