What's in a Prague street name

Every street in Prague, one by one.

Category: Finance

  • Originally published on X on 31 January 2024. In the early days of the New Town, written sources refer to the street as ‘nová ulice faráře svatojindřišského’, or the ‘New Street of the parish priest of St Henry’s’. This was partly because the street was next to the church on Jindřišská (coming up on day…

  • Originally published on X on 15 March 2023. This embankment was formed in 1951 from the joining of two separate streets (see later for details of the multiple name changes). Alois Rašín was born in Nechanice, near Hradec Králové, in 1867. He went to Prague to study medicine at Charles University, but then switched to…