What's in a Prague street name
Every street in Prague, one by one.
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I could talk about myself for ages, or I could point out that https://english.radio.cz/ed-ley-englishman-recording-stories-pragues-streets-one-one-8806941 is over two years old but still largely stands (other than the Twitter links).
Category: Flowers
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Na Podkovce was built in 1925. ‘Podkovka’ translates as ‘Hippocrepis’, which itself translates as ‘horseshoe’; it’s a genus of flowering plants, of which there are accepted to be 34 different species. And, because round here is round here, it was, once upon a time, the name of a local vineyard.
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Originally published on Twitter on 25 July 2022. U Zásobní zahrady was built in 1947. A zásobní zahrada is a ‘supply garden’. The garden here provided flowers for Prague’s parks, and for specific events, from 1937 onwards. That’s a lot of flowers. It replaced a previous storage garden, also located in Žižkov, but at Rajská…
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