Hradcany and Castle
Category: Prague Castle, Quarters
Hradcany were, as the third town of Prague, founded at the beginning of the 14th century by a Royal Count Berka from Dube. At that time, however, there was already the Prague Castle, formerly called Royal Castle, a historical-political and cultural dominating feature of not only Hradcany and Prague, but of the whole Bohemia, influencing with its significance the whole Central Europe for centuries, whose foundation dates back sometime after 880 A.D.
Lesser Town (Mala Strana)
Category: Quarters
The Little Quarter (Mala Strana), originally called the New Town of Prague and later on called The Minor Town of Prague, was founded by the king Pfemysl Otakar II, in the year 1257. However, as early as in the 8″‘ century, there was a market settlement here.
Josefov
Category: Quarters
Josefov, formerly Jewish Town, came into being from a settlement of Jewish traders and moneychangers that was adjacent to the ancient ford over Vltava River on the north tip of the “Slavic Flood Island” which extended from a place presently opposite to the National Theater (Narodni divadlo) as far as Kaprova Street in the original riverbed of Vltava.
The Old Town
The Old Town whose creation was consummated after the year 1230 by building fortifications around the town area where for two to three centuries, there have been settlements of merchants of Romance origin, of Germans and Jews, surrounding the main Prague market.
The New Town
Category: Quarters
The New Town (Nove Mesto) was founded by the emperor Charles IV. in the year 1348, It was the most extensive urbanistic act In Prague and a unique one in the world. In this act, he merged ail local settlements from the period of Romanesque style spreading from Tesnov to Vysehrad and laid the fundamentals of the regulation of the new development which serve up until now without any change, Charles’ Square (Karlovo namesti).
Vysehrad
Category: Quarters
Vysehrad was founded sometime in the 10th century, undoubtedly later than Prague Castle (Prazsky hrad) had beem founded and for centuries it also remained in a position subordinate to Prague Castle.
Prague River Cruise
