What's in a Prague street name
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Category: Písek
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Originally published on Twitter on 15 October 2022. Písecká was built in 1910. Písek, with 30,000 inhabitants, is the third-largest city in South Bohemia. Its name means ‘sand’, deriving from the gold-bearing sand found on the banks of the Otava River. It was first mentioned in 1243, when Václav I built a castle there, although…