Malá Strana

In the Middle Ages, it was a dominant center of the ethnic German (and since 16th century also Italian) citizens of Prague.

[citation needed] It also housed many noble palaces while the right-bank towns were comparatively more bourgeois and more Bohemian Czech.

Originally, when it was founded in 1257, the district was called the New Town beneath Prague Castle (Czech: Nové Město pod Pražským hradem).

It was created by amalgamating a number of settlements beneath the Prague Castle into a single administrative unit.

Baroque architecture eventually dominated when the style was implanted on Malá Strana after the destructive fires in 1541.

View of Malá Strana from St. Nicholas Church
A view of the Mostecká viewed towards Malostranské Náměstí with the Church of Saint Nicolas in the background just after sunrise
A view of the bridge tower at the end of the Charles Bridge on the side of Malá Strana
Charles Bridge (Karlův most), Vltava River, Prague, 2015