We can find wetlands, tramp settlements and Beverly Hills in Prague, says the founder of the project Praha Neznámá | iRADIO
Prague has a total of 112 neighborhoods, and in all of them you will find something unique, says Petr Ryska, the founder of the Praha Neznámá project. His original blog about the charm of forgotten parts of Prague grew over time into websites and social networks. Today, Praha Neznámá is popular not only on the Internet, but also organizes well-attended walks around the metropolis and other events.
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As a boy, he discovered the poetics of the corners of his native Prague 6 and its surroundings. “I didn’t enjoy Prague Castle, there was nothing new to discover,” recalled the guest of Večerní Radiožurnál about the time when his passion for “Unknown Prague” was probably already slowly being born.
“I experience neighborhoods emotionally, each of them has its own personality and a different atmosphere,” he explains his approach.
“I only had a problem with Horní Počernice. For a long time they seemed so bland to me. Until a friend told me that the long, straight street between the one-story houses reminded her of a high street in some town in the American Midwest. And at that moment I thought to myself that even those Horní Počernice have something in them.”
“In Prague we can find wetlands like in Šumava, slums like in Rio de Janeiro and tramp settlements like somewhere in Posázaví,” Petr Ryska enumerates the diversity of our capital city in an interview with Zuzana Burešová.
On Ořechovce we meet a bit of England, and Pařížská street was created after the model of the French metropolis. Barrandov near the film studios is the Czech Beverly Hills, and Baba, on the other hand, is the best-preserved functionalist residential district in Europe.
Conversely, the poorest were the neighborhoods on the eastern edge of Prague. “In 1930, there were sixty emergency colonies in Prague. And surprisingly, some of them have been preserved to this day. After 1948, two colonies – in Slatiny and Kotlaska in Libni – were the first to fall as remnants of hated capitalism. Both still stand today,” concludes Petr Ryska.
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