4k Czech walk: Prague - Legion Bridge, Myslíkova street, Carles Square - Czech Republic 🇨🇿 HDR ASMR

In our today's 4k Czech walk, we will move from the Legions Bridge in Prague, along Myslikova street towards Charles Square. Myslíkova is a Prague street in New Town and runs along the border of Prague 1 in the north and Prague 2 in the south. The street connects Masaryk's embankment by the Vltava with Spálena Street by Charles Square; this road fork forms a small square. This street is also the border between the city districts of Prague 1 and Prague 2. The street is on a gentle slope, mostly built up by apartment buildings from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when it became a road with many shops. Famous companies such as the evangelical publishing house and the Blahoslav bookstore (transformed into an antiquarian bookshop after 1990) or a pharmacy, from which a wooden Art Nouveau portal with a cut relief of Hygeia has been preserved, took turns here. Of the traditional restaurant, only U Bubeníčků remained under its original name. Currently, there are 162 companies, including the Czech Association of Pedagogical Research, a branch of the Faculty of Education, Charles University, optics, spices, oriental food, stylish furniture, cafes and tea houses, two hotels, a dance school, etc. The Belgian Embassy is located in Myslík House. kingdom. The name of Myslíkova Street dates back to about 1884; it bears the name of the local burgher Adam Myslík from Hyršov, Radlice and Košíře and the founder of the Myslík family from Hyršov, the name was created by mistake. The house on the corner of Myslíkova and Spálená streets did not belong to Adam Myslík, as the memorial plaque on the house states, but to Eliáš Myslich of Vilimštejn, a valet at the provincial plaques in the 17th century. https://goo.gl/maps/9quDSWhtZepUXLLG9 Legion Bridge: Since 1841 the first of Prague chain bridges, a unique construction of that time, used to stand in this place. It became a new essential arterial road over the river of Vltava, next to the insufficient Charles Bridge. Author of the design was ing. Bedřich Schnirch. Subsequently there was constructed the present Smetana’s embankment. Both constructions were realized by company of Vojtěch Lanna. In 1898 the bridge served out and near there was constructed a wooden temporary bridge and construction of new, stone bridge was started. Before, the city of Prague had announced an open tendering for design processing. A design, submitted with title „Future“, by authors ing. Josef Janů, ing. Jiří Soukup and arch. Antonín Balšánek, won. The jury took into consideration whether a work of relevant architectural and art level would rise in a place very close to the National Theatre. Construction of the bridge was started symbolically on 3rd August 1898 by laying the foundation stone. A case with memorial document was put into one already completed river pier. Budapest company G. Gregersen and sons was charged with realization of building work. As the bridge spans over a popular place of short-term recreation for the Prague inhabitants, Střelecký Island, wide access stairs were built from the bridge deck. Stones pylons with cupolas covered with copper were built above the last pillars on both sides; they served as stations for the bridge toll collectors. The utility lines were laid under the pavement surface.The new bridge, 343 m long and 16 m wide, was ceremoniously handed over for operation on 14th June 1901 with attendance of Emperor Franz Joseph I. It got its name after his throne predecessor Emperor Franz I. In 1919-1940 it was called the Legion Bridge, in 1940-1945 the bridge of Smetana, after World War II the Legion Bridge again and since 1960 the bridge of 1st May. In March 1990 the previous NVP Commission decided on returning the name of The Legion Bridge. https://goo.gl/maps/Sex6EzfGN7pbtA1D7 Charles Square (Czech: Karlovo náměstí) is a city square in the New Town of Prague, Czech Republic. At roughly 80,550 m², it is one of the largest squares in the world and was the largest town square of medieval Europe. Founded in 1348 as the main square of the New Town by Charles IV, it was known as Dobytčí trh (Cattle Market) from the 15th century and finally named after its founder in 1848. The central portion of the square was turned into a park in the 1860s. The square is now one of the main transport hubs of the city center, with Karlovo náměstí metro station and numerous tram lines and busy roads crossing it in all directions. https://goo.gl/maps/xM7oQA3SQj7ifVqM7 Recorded in 4k 60fps HDR Perception Philosophy © 2022 18 of March 2022 Czech Republic ASMR