What's in a Prague street name

Every street in Prague, one by one.

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  • Prague 2, day 161: Myslíkova

    Originally published on X on 20 April 2023. Myslíkova was built around 1348, when the New Town was founded. Originally nameless, the street became known as Pod Zderazem, due to its location ‘under Zderaz’: https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/09/01/prague-2-day-159-na-zderaze/. Then, it became known as Pasířská until about 1700, because of the craftsmen (a pasíř is one who makes decorative Continue reading

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  • Prague 2, day 57: Bruselská

    Originally posted on Twitter on 2 January 2023. Bruselská was built in 1884. Until 1926, this was Erbenova, after Karel Jaromír Erben (1811-1870), a poet whose best-known work is Kytice (if you haven’t read it, you may well have seen the early-2000s film adaptation). Given it’s only been a week since Belgická (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/06/30/prague-2-day-51-belgicka/), I really Continue reading

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  • Prague 2, day 51: Belgická

    Originally published on Twitter on 27 December 2022. Belgická was built in 1880. Around 1800, the area where the street is now was the location of Wimmerovy sady, named after Jakub Wimmer (after whom Jana Masaryka was previously named – https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/03/17/prague-2-day-46-jana-masaryka/). He was pretty well-off in the first place, and became more so when put Continue reading

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