What's in a Prague street name

Every street in Prague, one by one.

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  • Prague 4, day 420: Před nádražím

    Před nádražím was built in 1977. Yes, Krč has a train station. If you haven’t been through the station, that’s not too much of a surprise – only one route, the one to/from Dobříš, runs though it. I’ll tell the story of the station later, as: a) there’s another street named after it; b) I’ve…

  • Prague 3, day 105, sort of: Trocnovské náměstí

    Originally published on Twitter on 6 August 2022. Trocnovské náměstí was presumably built before 1875. We’ve covered nearby Trocnovská on https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2022/11/30/prague-3-day-102-trocnovska/, but otherwise we have a reversal of Dovcovagate (Dovcova being the street that exists on Google Maps but nowhere else, as covered on https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2022/11/26/prague-3-day-86-dovcova/). My atlas, Google Maps and http://mapy.cz all confidently state that…