What's in a Prague street name
Every street in Prague, one by one.
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Originally published on X on 21 May 2024. Dlouhá is also popularly known as Dlouhá třída, and there’s still at least one street sign with that variant. ‘Dlouhá’ means long, and the map in the previous post confirms that this name is appropriate. The street is first mentioned in writing in 1310. It understandably became…
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Originally published on X on 16 March 2024. In the latter part of the 12th century, a Romanesque church was built round these parts. In the 1360s, the church was given a Gothic makeover (which was not so much a makeover as a virtual replacement of the entire building). The church became known for being…
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