Karlín–The Earliest Suburb of Prague

The second volume of the long-running project of the City of Prague Museum about the suburbs of Prague, the book introduces the history of the first suburb of Prague (1817) included in Greater Prague more than a hundred years later. Filled with images and information, the book contains: Špitálsko in prehistory, Middle Ages and modern times, the origin of Invalidovna, Špitálsko in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the establishment of Karlín and its development prior to the mid-19th century, the origin of the harbour and gasworks, Church of Cyril and Methodius, the development of Karlín during the 2nd half of the 19th and early 20th century, Karlín industrial, changes in rail transport, Karlín after the origin of Great Prague...