The Unknown Prague invites Czech Television to Hradčany and the slum – ČT24 – Czech Television
Prague unknown on your website recalls that the entire metropolis consists of 112 districts. And he quotes Karel Čapek: “The inhabitants of Letná will only get to Olšany at their funeral, while the inhabitants of Královské Vinohrady will visit Algeria rather than Petrská čtvrt.”
The project offers articles that deal with different parts of the city, as well as regular guided tours. You can go, for example, to the only slum that has survived in Prague. The Na Slatinách colony stands on the border of Michle and Strašnice.
“People came here almost without funds, because somewhere in Žižkov they were expensive and inaccessible for them, mostly from villages,” says guide and author of the project Petr Ryska. The local houses later became the setting for the popular film Elementary School. Some of the characters even had a model in the boys who came from a poor colony.
Today, the colony serves partly as an emergency settlement, partly as a gardening settlement. The district has only one address after the only officially named street Na Slatinách.
Another unknown destination in Prague is Střešovičky, one of the best-preserved village ensembles in the metropolis, which lies on the slopes of the Střešovice ridge. The small houses of the workers’ colony resemble the famous Golden Lane. “But it is completely without tourists, it is here purely for us and at the same time without an entrance fee,” invites the visitor Petr Ryska.
There are several dozen unknown destinations in Prague, including Industriální Holešovice, Hanspaulka Vlasta Buriana and Hradčanské bašty.