Podolí
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Prague 4, day 163: Kaplická
Kaplická was built in 1962. Kaplice is a town in South Bohemia, 20 kilometres southeast of Český Krumlov. It’s named after the Chapel of St Mary, although that no longer exists. The earliest written mention dates from 1257, when Pope Alexander IV gave a church in the town permission to sell indulgences. In 1382, Kaplice Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 162: Nad cihelnou
Nad cihelnou was built in 1935. A ‘cihelna’ is a brickyard, or a brickworks. In the 1800s, Podolí became well known for its industries; as well as its limestone mining (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/06/20/prague-4-day-122-vapencova/), it had a sawmill, and, around here (from about 1872 onwards), a brickyard. The brickyard lasted until about 1945. There are some great old Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 161: Za Pekařkou
Za Pekařkou was built in 1978. You might have guessed where this is going. Pod Pekařkou is below what was once Pekařka, a farmstead (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/09/02/prague-4-day-160-pod-pekarkou/). Nad Pekařkou is above the same former farmstead (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/06/16/prague-4-day-119-nad-pekarkou/). And Za Pekařkou is behind it. To see what the crossroads of Pod and Za looked like in 1989, take a Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 159: Ke Hlásce
Ke Hlásce was named in the 1930s. Type ‘hláska’ into most translation tools, and they’ll start telling you about a phone. However, they’re not talking about a telephone – in this sense, a ‘phone’ is any distinct speech sound. As in phonetics, phonemes, homophones, and so on. However, a ‘hláska’ is also a watchtower, usually Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 158: Terasovitá
Terasovitá was built in 1978. ‘Terasovitá’ can be translated as ‘terraced’ or ‘tiered’. And the residences in the street, built in the 1960s and 1970s, have some quite pleasing (and quite southern European-looking?) terraces, as best evidenced by https://pamatkovykatalog.cz/terasove-domy-20605427. Apparently, you can refer to these as an example of ‘green brutalism’: https://praha.camp/magazin/detail/praha-kopcovita-aneb-jak-se-bydli-ve-svahu-kde-najdete-top-5-terasovych-domu. Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 156: Jeremenkova
Jeremenkova has exited in its current form since 1952; before then, it consisted of two separate streets called Dvorecká (built 1906) and Pod vrstami (created 1938). More on those in future posts, as there are still streets with those names. Andrei Ivanovich Yeremenko was born to a peasant family in Markivka, near Kharkiv, in 1892. Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 155: Dvorecké náměstí
Dvorecké náměstí was built in 1930. The settlement of Dvorce (German: Dworetrz) was first mentioned in writing in 1222. Originally, its properties were owned by the Vyšehrad Chapter (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/08/24/prague-2-day-94-k-rotunde/), but, during the Hussite Wars, they were taken by the people of Prague, although they would be returned to the Chapter by 1500. In 1547, they Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 154: U vápenné skály
U vápenné skály was built in 1925. This translates as ‘by the limestone rock’, so go and take a look at https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/06/20/prague-4-day-122-vapencova/. Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 153: U Kublova
U Kublova was named in 1906. Until 1947 (with the inevitable break during the Nazi occupation), the street was called Riegrova, as in the early leader of the Czech nationalist movement, František Ladislav Rieger (1818-1903), who’s also given his name to that park in Vinohrady. Kublov, meanwhile, was the name of a settlement round here, Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 152: Břidličná
Břidličná was built in 1931. ‘Břidlice’ means ‘slate’ – fine-grained sedimentary rocks made from claystones and siltstones. Slate is usually black or grey, and has excellent insulating properties. It also contains methane, which can be mined as shale gas. In Czechia, slate is most abundant in Nízký Jeseník – the country’s largest geomorphological region – Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 151: Nad sokolovnou
Nad sokolovnou was named in 1906. However, the first name – in place until 1947, except during the Nazi occupation – was Strossmayerova, after Josip Juraj Strossmayer (1815-1905), Croatian prelate, politician and benefactor. More on him when we get on to Prague 7. For the current name, you may want to start with the story Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 150: Nad ostrovem
Nad ostrovem was built in 1938. Nad ostrovem translates as ‘above the island’. The island in question – as you might be able to guess from the map – is Veslařský ostrov. As that has its own street sign, I guess that should be your lot for now. Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 149: Na Podkovce
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. Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 148: Park Antonína Engela
Park Antonína Engela was named in December 2023. Antonín Engel was born in Poděbrady in 1879; his family moved to Prague shortly after, and he went to school on Malá Strana, graduating in 1897. After that, he studied architecture and engineering at both ČVUT and its German-speaking counterpart, as well as at the Vienna Academy, Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 147: Pravá
Pravá was built in 1931. Go to https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/07/15/prague-4-day-145-leva/. Follow the instructions up until ‘pretty as they are’. Pravá is located, quite literally, to the right of Podolská (if you’re facing the correct way). OK, vocab time, based on the reminder that, sigh, so many people believe that the right is right: The ‘pravý opak’ would be Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 146: Výchozí
Výchozí was built in 1906. Until 1947, it was called Karlova, after Charles IV, arguably the most impactful Czech of all time. You can read about him on https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/10/15/prague-1-day-196-karlova/. One of the words you’ll see a lot across the country is ‘východ’, which translates as ‘exit’. And this street acts as something of an exit Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 145: Levá
Levá was built in 1931. Get on a tram. The 2, the 3 and the 17 will all do nicely. Take that tram to Podolské nábřeží (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/07/05/prague-4-day-137-podolske-nabrezi/), ideally getting out at Kublov. Don’t ask me about Kublov, because I’m saving that for a later date. Just get out of the tram. Face away from the Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 144: Na Zlatnici
Na Zlatnici was built in 1925. You may remember that Podolí was built in an area of vineyards – they’re mentioned on quite a large proportion of recent posts, such as https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/06/11/prague-4-day-114-na-topolce/, which is named after a vineyard called Topolka. There was another vineyard round here called Zlatnice. When used to describe a person, a Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 143: Nedvědovo náměstí
Nedvědovo náměstí was nameless until 1906. From 1906 to 1934, the square was called Komenského náměstí, of which there is still one in Prague 3: https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2022/11/26/prague-3-day-82-komenskeho-namesti/. From 1934 to 1948, it was called Podolské náměstí. Miloš Nedvěd was born in 1908. His father, František Nedvěd, would later co-found the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in the early Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 142: Vodárenská
Vodárenská was built in 1935. By the late 1800s, Prague was expanding, as were the towns around it, such as Podolí. Industry was becoming stronger and stronger, and needed more resources. Such as water. Therefore, in 1882, the Vinohrady Waterworks were built to supply water to the town of Královské Vinohrady. The water tower is Continue reading
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