A brief history of Prague

There is no city in the world which has arisen within one day. This sounds more like a matter of the far future, or sci-fi. Instead, the creation process of the city is more probably a question of tens or hundreds of years of development until the structure and arrangement of the city is in an optimal state in which we can find it these days. And there is no doubt the second alternative refers also to Prague. The history of Prague is therefore very broad.

1400 years ago, you would hardly ever find here such a busy, hectic and wide city as Prague is today. Nothing like that, just forests, meadows, glades and a river making a way through the wild and unspoiled nature. There were only the daring merchants wandering over the marshy banks of the Vltava River, mediating the trades between distant settlements. They very often visited places where no one stepped before them and later told about those places to others. This might also be the case of Prague.

The first wooden shacks giving a shelter from the bad weather to its occupants aroused here very slowly and sporadically. Those people were the first settlers in this area. As well as friendly were they cautious (at those time, no one was trust worthy). If you came to visit them, they would offered you a modest treat – milk, salt and bread. But the language would be a problem – there were not only the Slavs living in those areas, nations speaking many other different languages had lived there.