What's in a Prague street name

Every street in Prague, one by one.

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  • Prague 4, day 34: V podluží

    V podluží was built in 1925. Yesterday, we discussed how a ‘luh’ is a meadow, and that the area around here once had that name too (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/02/13/prague-4-day-33-v-luhu/). We’re not straying at all far from that story today, because ‘podluží’ would translate as ‘the area under the meadow’. Shove ‘Podluží’ into Wikipedia, and you’ll find out Continue reading

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  • Prague 2, day 136: Pod Větrovem

    Originally published on X on 26 March 2023. Pod Větrovem was built in 1894. We’ve touched on this one briefly before: Větrník, Větrná hora or Větrov is the (windy) hill which the Church of St. Apollinaire was built on https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/08/25/prague-2-day-113-apolinarska/. In a mildly desperate bid to pump this thread up a bit, let’s look at Continue reading

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