What's in a Prague street name
Every street in Prague, one by one.
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Originally published on X on 25 April 2023. We don’t know when the street was built. What we do know is that the road was known as Malá Lazarská (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/09/01/prague-2-day-165-lazarska/) until 1909, then becoming part of Lazarská itself until 1934. In 1890, an eleven-point plan, known as Punktace, was drawn up, aiming at Czech-German reconciliation.…