Pražské příběhy 2 - Cesta na Hradčany, Nový Svět a zpátky na Malou Stranu – Hrubý Dan (2023)

Where do rumors end and the truth about Mucha's house in Hradčany begin? How was the Hradčany bedrock related to the blessed age of the local prostitutes? How did a bohemian at the head of a CIA branch become a tragedy for the whole country? And the famous tragic figure of the National Theatre with a brush from State Security? Why were the fifty-year-old caretaker of Prague Castle torn apart by bears? How did the first man to stand up to Hitler on Czech territory die? And why did Jiří Mandl, the brother of a famous actress, inform on others? ***** Readers will find the answers to these questions in an extensive book that captures the social history of old Prague districts. This time covering all of Hradčany, including Pohořelec, Loretánské náměstí, or Nový Svět, Malostranské and Valdštejnské náměstí, but also Klárov or the adjacent Jelení příkop. There is also a return to Kampa, where remarkable human destinies concentrated with particular intensity. ***** The author himself says: "Every house and every arch has been described a thousand times in Malá Strana or Hradčany, but what happened in each house thirty, forty, or even eighty or a hundred years ago, no one remembers."