Prague (in Czech Praha ) is the largest Capitale and Ville of the Czech Republic. She is also at the same time one of the fourteen Régions of the Czech Republic and the capital of the Bohemia-Power station. She is crossed by the Vltava ( Moldau in German).

The city with the hundred bell-towers (approximate qualifier: Prague counts actually 550 turns) has escaped miraculeusement with the destruction of the Second world war and offers Architecture mixing the styles Romance, Gothic, baroque, Rococo, Art nouveau and cubist. Since 1992, the historical center town is registered on the list of the World heritage of UNESCO.

Etymology

So in modern Czech, práh means “threshold”, the name is resulting from an old Slavic root, praga , which wants to say “ford” and which one finds in certain toponyms (a district of Warsaw bears the name of Praga).

Another etymology connects the name of the city to the fact that the city is with the threshold of ancient Europe, with the margins of the Slavic and German worlds.

According to the legend, the city was founded on the order of Libuše, prophetess and mythical founder of the reigning line of the Přemyslides, where a man posed the threshold of his house. Others finally, fascinated by the magic character of the city, affirm that it is the threshold, the door of access towards other worlds or other dimensions.

History

See also: History of Prague, Chronology of Prague

Ancient Prague

The area of Prague is populated as of the Paléolithique. As the remainder of the Bohemia, Prague is first of all inhabited by the Boïens, Celtic people which arrives here around the year -200 and which occupies a camping in the south of the current city called Závist. Bohemia holds its name of these people. They are supplanted in the area by the Marcomans, a Germanic tribe then the Avars replace them before leaving towards the west under the pressure the Slaves which settle there at the 6th century.

According to the legend hawked by Cosmas of Prague, the city is rested by the princess Libuše and her husband Přemysl, also founder (mythical) of the dynasty of the Přemyslides. That the legend is true or false, of the archaeological excavations attest human presence at the 9th century on the heights of Vyšehrad, on Right Bank of the Vltava, and those of the future Château of Prague on left bank.

Prague medieval

The first hard copy mentioning Prague goes back to 965 and is the fact of a Jewish merchant of Andalusia, Ibrahim ibn Ya' qub. The city becomes évêché in 973.

In 1170, Vladislav II makes build, out of wood, the first bridge on Vltava, the bridge of Judith who, collapsed in 1342 will be replaced by a stone bridge, celebrates it Pont Charles.

Otakar II founds Malá Strana in 1257 which receives a municipal charter then and lodges the German community which autoadministre according to the Droits of Magdeburg. On other bank of Vltava, the Old city of Prague develops around its historical core of Týn and is populated of Czech and a Jewish community in what will become Josefov; in 1270, the Synagog Old woman-News is built.

The city knows its apogee with the king de Bohême and future Germanic Empereur Charles IV which makes build the Pont Charles (1357), the Cathédrale Saint-Guy of Prague (1344), founds in April 1348 the Université Charles, the first German university, and extends the city to the east and the south to create the Nouvelle City (1347) which doubles the surface of the Old woman-City.

In 1355, Charles IV fact of Prague the capital of the Holy Germanic Roman Empire. In 1378, last year of the reign of Charles IV, Prague counts 40  000 inhabitants, which makes the third most populated city of it Europe.

Prague is then an arts center and religious of first importance and it is here that are born the first stammerings from the Réforme with Jan Hus which preaching in the Chapelle of Bethlehem against the abuses the catholic hierarchy, in particular against the traffic of the Indulgence S. Its death, in 1415, on roughing-hew it, at the time of the Concile of Constancy puts fire at the powders in Bohemia and mark the beginning of the Croisades against Hussites which put a term at this urban development.

In 1419, Hussites take the control of the city, the emperor Sigismond sends an army to take again possession of the city but this one is demolished. It is not that with the Bataille of Lipany, in 1434, that Pragois will be put in rout. Always unsubdued, the diet of Bohemia, joined together in the town hall of the Old woman-City, elects for king Georges de Poděbrady on February 27th, 1458. Preferring a Slavic sovereign rather than a Habsbourg, the diet elects Vladislas Jagellon to replace Georges Ist.

Under Habsbourg

But the girl of Vladislav IV, Anne Jagellon wife Ferdinand of Austria, according to a dynastic agreement arranged by Maximilien Ier of the Saint Worsens in 1515, and the city passes by again soon under domination habsbourgeoise.

Under the Habsbourg, Prague balances between sporadic movements of revolt (that of the diet of the States of Bohemia in 1547 for example, repressed by Ferdinand Ier) and of tender, generally imposed. Consequently, the municipal privileges, its political influence and its independence are decreasing throughout the period.

Of 1583 with 1612, under the reign of Rodolphe II of the Holy roman Empire, it is again capital imperial and knows one era of cultural prosperity at which brings fine the second Défenestration of Prague into 1618 which starts the open war of the nobility Czech, largely Protestant, towards the imperial capacity (and catholic) of Habsbourg and, to the European level, the Guerre Thirty Year old.

The defeat of the Czech armies to the Battle of the White Mountain in November 1620 and decapitation, places Old woman-City, twenty-seven leaders of the revolt mark, for a long time, the end of the hopes of independence of the States of Bohemia.

At the religious level, the Counter-Reformation beats full sound then, the Protestant Czechs (of which most famous is without question Comenius) are constrained to convert or to exile themselves. At the political level, in 1627, Ferdinand II cancels the Charte of Vladislav Jagellon (1500) and imposes the Nouvelle Charter of the States of Bohemia (in German, Verneuerte Landesordnung , in Czech, Obnovené zřízení zemské ) which imposes the germanisation of teaching and the administration.

The Paix of Prague is signed there in 1635 between the emperor and certain Protestant German princes. In 1648, at the end of the Thirty Year old war, the left bank of the city (Hradčany and Malá Strana) is invaded and plundered by the Swedish Protestant armies little before the Traités of Westphalia do not put at the hostilities which put the Central Europe at fire and blood.

Follows one century of peace which sees the city being embellished with the construction of masterpieces baroques like the church Saint Nicolas's Day de Malá Strana, the Palais Kinský and Šternberk, the Archevêché of Prague and completion baroque of the Château of Prague.

In 1741, the War of succession of Austria sees the arrival of the troops of Frederic II of Prussia, allied with the French Army of the Maréchal of Beautiful-Isle which put the seat and take the city. A little later at the time of the War Seven Year old, the Battle of Prague, on May 6th 1757 mark the victory of the Prussians over the Austrians and the Russians but, in spite of their victory, the Prussians cannot seize Prague

February 12th, 1784 is an important date in the history of Prague: it is born then officially from the fusion of the four original cities which are

  • Hradčany, the “noble” district around the Château of Prague
  • Malá Strana, the “Small-Side” located between Hradčany and Vltava
  • the Old city
  • the Nouvelle City, created in 1348
The “royal metropolis of Prague” (its official name, Královské hlavní město Praha in Czech) is the second city of the Empire with soixante-seize-mille inhabitants and 143 hectares. Josefov, the Jewish ghetto with the center even of the Old city still preserves a separate and autonomous statute.

The 19th century and rise of Czech nationalism

In 1848, all democratic Europe is raised against its monarchs and Prague is one of the most radical centers on the matter. However, the prince de Windisch-Graetz enters the city on June 27th, 1848, and dissolves in blood the Czech Diète.

As much of European capitals, Prague absorbs its suburbs during the urban explosion of the 19th century: Josefov in 1850, Vyšehrad in 1883 then Holešovice and Bubny one year followed later by Libeň in 1901, giving rise to a whole of twelve districts extending on 496 km ².

Prague, where always côtoient themselves and often clash Czech, German and Juif S, becomes a true “culture medium”. The competition enters the communities marks the architecture of the city: with the Czech National theater (projected since 1844, completed in 1881) made during the Neuer Deutscher Theater (1883-1888); the national Galerie in Prague shelters, since 1796, the collections of the nobility (pro-allemande) of Bohemia? that's no problem, the Czechs found in 1818 them patriotic Musée of Bohemia. The Rudolfinum, offered in 1885 to the “Czech nation” by the first bank of the kingdom of Bohemia east, wise compromise, dedicated to the prince-heir Rodolphe de Habsbourg.

The fortifications of the Middle Ages are gradually cut down to make place at a city in full growth (it reaches the half-million inhabitants at the end of the century). The Czechs take little by little the capacity and their revenge: they have the majority of the first municipal council in 1861.

In 1884, the municipality sets up a plan of regulation of the Vltava and undertakes, in parallel, the cleansing of the district of Josefov, more or less shaven and rebuilt according to hygienists criteria with broad streets, mains drainage, gas, etc A few years later, it obtains the Tramway.

Again capital

With the independence of the Czechoslovakia, proclaimed on October 28th, 1918, Prague becomes again Capitale and many streets is renamed.

The city is modernized and extended. In 1922, the Grande Prague is founded which includes its suburbs hitherto independent like Vinohrady, Žižkov, Dejvice, Smíchov, Střešovice or Košíře. She experiences an urban development without precedent, sees herself associating many theaters, an airport with Kbely, the Place Venceslas is remade, in 1928, to make place with the automobile traffic, the Cathédrale Saint-Guy is completed in 1929 in time to celebrate with dignity the millenium of dead of Saint Venceslas.

The Crise of 1929 without slows down this development to stop it. The Aéroport of Praha-Ruzyně is then brought into service. In 1938, Prague counts a million inhabitants.

The cubism knows a very particular vogue thanks to architects like Pavel Janák, Josef Gočár or Josef Chochol which creates this typically Czechoslovakian style: rondocubism. A district entirely cubist is built with Vyšehrad.

Little before the Second world war, Prague accommodates the expelled Czech refugees of the Sudètes attached to the Third Reich following the Accords of Munich. March 15th, 1939, the Bohemia-Moravie is conquered in its entirety and Adolf Hitler parade with the Castle of Prague. The universities and universities are closed and the student's demonstrations repressed in blood. May 27th, 1942, in Hradčany, an attack costs the life SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, called “the torturer”.

Prague loses a big part, if not of number at least in what it unquestionably took part in the cultural radiation of the city, of its population. Exiled, committed suicide (like the poet Jiří Orten) or off-set with the Concentration camp of Theresienstadt or elsewhere, Jewish community of Prague east - literally - decimated.

May 5th, 1945 bursts the Release of the city by a largely impromptu Resistance around a Czech National council ( Česká národní split or ČNR ) which takes the head of the insurrection. The May 8th, the German troops capitulate and according to prior agreements, the Red Army “releases” Prague on May 9th, 1945.

Shortly after the Second world war, the Czechoslovakian Communist party goes up in power. The elections of 1946 and 1948 give the majority to the Communists in Prague who organize there, in February 1948 the Coup of Prague.

An impressive monument with the glory of the comrade Stalin is built on the face of the Parc of Letná: workmen, kolkhoz and soldiers has a presentiment of themselves behind the “small father of the people” in a unit, if not imposing, at least impressive.

In 1960, a new sectorization of the city is adopted (from 1 to 10), which is still largely places from there at the beginnings of the 21e century and four additional suburban towns are absorbed by the metropolis. The decade of the Sixties is especially marked by a massive construction schedule in the suburbs where construction in prefabricated panels makes call Czechoslovakian HLM panelák (word built starting from the word “panel”).

In 1968, the Spring of Prague mark the transitory town of way, it is crushed in August by the tanks of the armies of the Warsaw Pact. The Aéroport of Praha-Ruzyně sees landing the Russian planes with combat equipment. Pragois improvise a resistance and engagements take place, in particular around the Czechoslovakian radio-television and of the national museum near. XIVe congress of PCT mark end of the hostilities, the Spring of Prague and the beginning of the Standardization in Czechoslovakia.

In 1969, Prague becomes the capital of the Czech socialist Republic, one of the two republics of the Czechoslovakian socialist Republic (of which it remains the metropolis) which is transformed into a federation without its name, however, not being changed.

But these dark at the political level and stagnant years at the economic level does not prevent the city from continuing its growth. The project, almost centenary, of the Subway of Prague and that of the magistrála , the fast track which crosses the city are implemented. The bridge of Nusle joint two projects while making pass the subway under the entablature of the road bridge.

Years 1980 see some great work undertaken to equip or embellish the city: the National theater of Prague is restored and reopened in 1983, the Palate of the congresses opens its doors and the district of Pankrác covers turns more ambitious (and more vacuums) the ones that the others. With Žižkov, the tower of emission of Czechoslovakian radio-television is then built and to date remains the culminating point of the city.

The Revolution of velvet, in 1990, mark for Prague as for the remainder of the country a great change: the signs of the communist capacity are removed and the name of certain streets, places or stations of the subway “are democratized”. The pope Jean-Paul II and chair it George Bush honor the town of their visit.

In 1992, the historical center of the east city registered on the List of the world heritage. At January 1st, 1993, it becomes the capital of the Czech Republic.

An administrative reform, in 1995, defines a new segmentation of the various districts of the city which become more autonomous. Towards the end of the year 1990, the suburbs see the blossoming of the first shopping malls on the model of those of the west.

In 2000, Prague is named European Capitale culture. In September of the same year, the top of the Fonds international currency meets in the Palais of the congresses of Prague, which causes many demonstrations on behalf of the movements anti-globalisation (primarily foreign) which face the police force during all the week. One year later, in October 2001, the Heads of State of the Organization of the treaty of the North Atlantic meet in the city, this as well as the removal of the seat of Radio Free Europe, involve exceptional security measures which paralyze the city partially.

The rising “bimillenary” of the Vltava, in August 2002, requires the evacuation of whole parts of the city: Karlín, Holešovice or the bottom of Malá Strana is found under water. If the Métro of Prague is then, also, flooded to him and put except service for approximately six months, that takes place in the middle of the night and one deplores no victim. By chance also, the Old city is protected by barriers anti-floods and, contrary to the preceding floods, remains out of reach of water.

The Championnat of the world of hockey 2004 is divided between Prague and Ostrava, the city is seen then equipped with a new sports complex, the Sazka Arena in Vysočany.

Economy

Prague is traditionally the economic center of Tchéquie. It concentrates the central economic activities with the country such as the Bourse of Prague, the Czech national Banque, the Czech Railroads, etc; head offices of the principal companies like ČEZ or of the banks like Československá obchodní banka and Komerční banka.

In addition to industry of film and obvious industry of tourism, one finds in Prague of many companies of the processing industry.

The Gross domestic product of the city rises in 2002 to 620 billion Czech Couronnes what represents, for approximately 10  % of the global population of the country, a contribution to the national GDP of 25,7  %. The GDP per capita is thus of 226  % higher than that of the other Czech areas, superior also with the average of the European Union: in GDP with purchasing power parity, Prague is located at 152,8  % of the European average.

Tourism

Prague is a tourist city very . The beauty of the city was worth to him the admiration of many poets and artists, of Chateaubriand to André Breton, which regarded it as the “magic capital of Europe”. Majestic Vltava, relief and its beautiful residences Baroque S (whose Palate Wallenstein or palate Clam-Official receptions), the buildings of the Sécession Viennese (as the municipal House) sometimes make it resemble a stage set. The city is a tourist destination of foreground in Europe and approximately 2 million visitors per annum makes a stay there, generally between Easter and September.

Malá Strana, the district of the Castle

Among the tourist sites, one counts very famous the Pont Charles which connects the Old city to Malá Strana where one can admire the castle with the cathedral Saint-Guy and the gold Lane which draw its name from the alchemists, the wall of John Lennon opposite the embassy of France, the Cimetière of Vyšehrad, the Place Venceslas, the Villa Müller, etc

Like the Zoo of Prague located in the suburbs of Troja, the historical center was damaged enough by the Inondation S of August 2002.

what makes the most important community Ashkénaze of it and second Jewish community of Europe after that of Thessalonique. Between 1597 and 1609, Maharal of Prague, Juda Loew Ben Bezalel is rabbi of this flourishing community. He, is still regarded today as one of the largest doctors of the law of Brace. He is buried in picturesque the Jewish cemetery and its tomb became a place of pilgrimage. Suspected of collaboration with the Prussian armies of Frederic II of Prussia, by their sovereign, Marie-Therese, the Jews of Prague are expelled in 1745 and are authorized to return in 1748 whereas the hostilities of the War of succession of Austria ended. The doors of the ghetto (as much protective than segregationist) are cut down in 1848, moment when, within a framework integrationist, the Jews of Prague lose their privileges of autonomy. The ghetto, except for some monument-headlights, is completely destroyed at the end of the 19th century: the municipality sets up a plan of cleansing of the district of Josefov, shaven and rebuilt according to hygienists criteria with broad streets, mains drainage, gas, etc

. The stables of the Castle of Prague and those of the Palais Wallenstein are used as framework with the temporary exhibitions of the national Gallery.

The National museum which dominates of its imposing mass the Place Venceslas hesitates between a function of natural history museum of natural history (with rich person collections of mineralogy) and that of the Pantheon of the Czech nation (with a cupola honouring the great men with the country). It is free all first Monday of the month.

The Jewish Musée of Prague in the old ghetto of Josefov recalls the history of this community essential with the culture of the city: didn't it give him the legend of the Golem? , didn't it give birth to Franz Kafka?

Resulting from a collection private and exposing the contemporary artists, the Musée Kampa makes it possible to discover, inter alia, František Kupka, one of the creators of the abstraction at the beginning of the 20th century or Otto Gutfreund, author of the first sculpture cubist. It recently grew rich by the donation of Jiří Kolář, poet passed to the posterity for his work of plastics technician, in particular with his joinings.

You will also find in the Hurdy-gurdy Town of other tourist museums such as the Museum of the instruments of medieval tortures or the Museum of the erotism.

Intellectual life

Prague is traditionally a European arts center, place of many demonstrations. Let us quote, inter alia:
  • Febiofest, the cinema festival
  • Prague fringe festival, the festival of alternate theater
  • the festival of the writers of Prague
  • Four-year of Prague, Exposures scenographies and Theatrical Architecture

The Clementinum point of disjunction in particular part of the sumptuous national library. The rooms baroques recall those of the library of the Hofburg to Vienna.

Education

As for any capital, one finds many establishments of higher education there.

The Université Charles can, of the Middle Ages at the Second world war, to pride itself on the title of the oldest German university. The scission, at the 19th century, in two universities divided between Czechs and Germans, and the exclusion of those of the Czechoslovakian territory in 1945, makes that its title of older German university is not really any more of setting but it can still assert primacy in Central Europe.

Founded in 1707, the technical Université of Prague can also assert the title of older school of engineers in Central Europe.

The University of saving in Prague, as for it, can be prided to have seen passing on its benches Václav Klaus, former minister for the economy, Prime Minister then president of the country, Jiří Paroubek and Miloš Zeman, old first socialist ministers.

The School of the applied arts and the Académie of the Art schools are at the base of the training of the artists who embellished, during the decades spent, this singular and magic city.

Hector Berlioz noted already, at the time of its voyage to Prague in 1845-46, the excellence of the education given to the conservatory of music of the city. Born from a scission whose ethnic fracture and the eternal competition between Czechs and Germans are not foreign, the Czech Académie of the musical arts contributes, it also, with the formation of the artistic elites of the country: not satisfies with diplômer of the musicians as its name indicates it, it chapeaute faculties of famous theater and cinematography.

Population

The last census of 2003 gives a population of 1  172  500 inhabitants, is the tenth of the population of Tchéquie which counts 10,3 million of them. Approximately 40  000 hearts only populate the historical center. The unemployment rate of Praguois rises with 3,4  %, which corresponds to approximately 20  000 unemployed.

As one saw higher, Prague was a multiethnic city with Czech inhabitants , German and Juifs. Angelo Ripellino, in its book Praga Magica describes well the cultural competition and policy between the various communities: The magic spell of Prague was partly due to its character of city or cohabited three people ( Dreivölkerstadt ): Czech, German and the Jew. The mixture and the contact of the three cultures gave to the capital of Bohemia a special character, an extraordinary richness of resources and impulses. At the dawn of the 20th century, 414.899 Czechs (92,3  resided at it; %) and 37.776 Germans (7,5  %) among which 25.000 people of Jewish origin. The minority of German language had two sumptuous theaters, a vast concert hall, the university and the polytechnic institute, five colleges, four Oberrealschulen , two daily newspapers, a crowd of circles and Instituts.

During the German occupation of the Czechoslovakia during the Second world war, the large majority of the Jews perishes in the Holocauste. The German-speaking inhabitants, as for them, are expelled, after the Second world war, following the Décrets Beneš. Prague remains however a land of welcome with 50.000 Ukrainian Slovaques, 50.000 and 20.000 natives of the ex-USSR (Russian and Belorusse in majority), 10.000 Yugoslavians (Serbes or Croatian) and 15.000 Vietnamese arrived to Czechoslovakia during Communism under the terms of economic cooperation agreements.

The city also accommodates in several small islands (concentrated with Libeň, Smíchov and Žižkov) a minority Rroms. The proportion of Rroms in the global population of the east city of half lower than the average of the Czech Republic.

Karlín concentrates, according to any obviousness, the greatest Asian community with the districts of Holešovice and Písnice.

It is estimated that three hundreds - thousand people, arrivals primarily of the Bohemia-Power station move daily towards Prague for their work. The price of the real estate makes that, from now on increasingly inaccessible to the average budgets, Prague tendency has to stagnate with the profit of the Bohemia-Power station which is the most dynamic area, démographiquement speaking, of the country.

Transport

Prague is in the center of the Czech highways. The principal highways which radiate from Prague are D1 which leads towards Jihlava and Brno, D5 which leads to Plzeň and, via Rozvadov, with Nuremberg, D8 which goes to Ústí nad Labem; and D11 which leads to Hradec Králové. It is also in the center of the network of the Czech Railroads.

It has a vast infrastructure as well for public transport as for the cars. The Subway of Prague account three lines. The Tram of Prague form a dense network which serves the inhabitants and the visitors of day like night.

The city is also a crossroads of the Central Europe. The Aéroport of Praha-Ruzyně knows a strong growth of its traffic-traveller because of the tourist boom (whose that of the congresses) and the role growing that takes the city like centers economic between that and Western Europe of the East.

then it is founded is the turn of the clubs of the Lawn Tennis Club Praha and of the Sparta to be created in 1903. Since 1936, first official season of the championship of Czechoslovakia, the LTC will gain its first championship. The team on the whole will gain 10 championships like 7 Coupes Spengler, missing only the title by 1941 with the profit of the 1. CLTK Prague.

October 1st, 1948 the Cs Armádní Telocvicný Klub Praha (in French physical club of drive of the army ) is rested by the Czechoslovakian army and the section of hockey joined the championship elite then. The club gains the championship at the time of its second season but success will not be with go for the following seasons and finally the various clubs of the capital stop their activities in turn.

The two only clubs to be lasted in time are Slavia and Sparta, this last gaining 4 championships of Czechoslovakia. In 1993, following the partition of the country, the two clubs integrate new Czech divisions: Sparta takes immediately place in the Extraliga whereas Slavia spends one year more. Since the creation of the Extraliga , Slavia gained once the championship (in 2003) against 4 times for Sparta (2000, 2002,2006 and 2007). The Sazka Arena, the skating rink of Slavia, was built for the championship of the world 2004 and Prague thus has the one of the multipurpose sports complexes most advanced of Europe.

The distribution of the fans and sporting pragois between “Spartans” and “Slavists” is found in the clubs of Football and Hockey with the Sparta Prague, created in 1893 and the Slavia Prague, created in 1892.

The city, with the Stage of Strahov, can be enorgueillir to have the vastest stage in the world: : 63500 m ² and a capacity of: 360000 spectators.

Administration

The city is subdivided in ten districts ( městská část ), twenty-two cantons ( správní obvod ), fifty-seven districts ( městská část ) and cent-douze cadastral territories ( katastralní uzemí ). To complicate the whole, Pragois usually refer in the name of the historical quarters which are speaking to them more and which either are burst between several administrative subdivisions or joined together with several in a district or a canton.

  • Prague 1 (Staré Město, Malá Strana, Josefov, Hradčany, Nové Město)

  • Prague 2 (Vinohrady, Nové Město)
  • Prague 3 (Branik)
  • Prague 4 (Kunratice, Újezd, Šeberov, Libuš)
  • Prague 5 (Smíchov, Barrandov, Slivenec, Řeporyje, Velká Chuchle, Lochkov, Lipence, Radotín, Zbraslav, Zličín)
  • Prague 6 (Bubeneč, Břevnov, Lysolaje, Nebušice, Přední Kopanina, Suchdol)
  • Prague 7 (Letná, Holešovice, Bubeneč)
  • Prague 8 (Karlín, Březiněves, Dolní Chabry, Ďáblice, Troja)
  • Prague 9 (Dolní Počernice, Vinoř, Satalice, Čakovice, Klánovice, Koloděje, Běchovice)
  • Prague 10 (Křeslice, Dolní Měcholupy, Štěrboholy, Petrovice, Dubeč, Královice, Nedvězí, Kolovraty, Benice)
  • Prague 11 (Šeberov, Újezd, Křeslice )
  • Prague 12 (Libuš)
  • Prague 13 (Řeporyje)
  • Prague 14 (Dolní Počernice)
  • Prague 15 (Dolní Měcholupy, Štěrboholy, Petrovice, Dubeč)
  • Prague 16 (Velká Chuchle, Lochkov, Zbraslav, Lipence)
  • Prague 17 (Zličín, Řepy)
  • Prague 18
  • Prague 19 (Vinoř, Satalice, Čakovice)
  • Prague 20
  • Prague 21 (Klánovice, Koloděje, Běchovice)
  • Prague 22 (Královice, Nedvězí, Kolovraty, Benice)

The decisional bodies are the Representation of the town of Prague ( Zastupitelstvo Hlavního Města Prahy ), including/understanding 70 representatives elected for 4 years, and the Council of the town of Prague ( Rada Hlavního Města Prahy ) including/understanding 11 members elected among the representatives with at his head the Maire ( Primátor ).

Curiosity

In Prague, as in the others Czech cities, a double system is used for the Numérotation of the ways. Each building has a descriptive number ( číslo popisné ) in red and a number of orientation ( číslo orientační ) in blue. The red number which corresponds to compartmental of the Cadastre, is single for each building of a given district and can not follow the numbers of the close buildings. The blue number is a simple sequence number, similar to those used in other European cities. Each number can be used only in an address, but it is possible to indicate both at the same time to avoid very mistaken, while starting with the red number: “Hlavní 20/7”.

This redundancy is explained by the not-systematic character of the name of the streets: in the villages, they are generally not named and the descriptive or cadastral number is then essential to the factor or the visitor; in the cities, on the contrary, it is little of utility but - consideration of an administration often Kafka ïenne - obligatory.

Famous characters related to Prague

As an economic and cultural center of Bohemia, Prague attracted or gave birth to many personalities whose principal ones are:

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