Liliová (Praha 1) Street

Lilius Street leads almost exactly north towards the western part of Old Town, from the intersection with Náprstková Street and the northwest tip of Bethlehem Square to Charles Street. Its route is not entirely straightforward, and this is a clue to the long history that the trap carries by waiting.

The streets reach deep into the early Middle Ages. It is assumed that it was originally served as one of the roads leading towards Vysehrad from the Vltava ford, which was located approximately between the current Klárov and the Kaprovy Street line. The decisive change came after the construction of Judith's bridge, built between 1158 and 1172 in the place of the older wooden bridge. This bridge has changed the urban logic of Old Town forever. The routes leading from the bridge to the marketplace in Old Town Square were newly promoted to a partially established street network. The result was a more chaotic ground plan than he could have planned - even Charles Street, although it was used as the so-called Royal Road for Coronation Parades, it breaks several times between Crožovnik and Little Square.

The northern end of Lili was first created by the Dominican monastery, which later replaced Clementine in the Baroque, a huge architectural block, which stands here today. In the south, the street network transformed after the construction of the Old Town walls during the 1930's. The new gates could not be established in the direction of all the previous routes, so orientation changed. Around here were two main roads: in the east the gate of St. Martin in the direction of today's Burnt Street, in the west the gate of St. Stephen to the street Carolina Svlá.

The street is rich in houses that tell about architectural layers. The Western side is, for example, the Bojkovsky Palace, which is based on at least two medieval houses, rebuilt in the Renaissance and partially baroque between 1713 and 1726. Near the Anen Street neighborhood, there is a Gothic house that has been professionally modified several times. The Golden Snake House on the floor of Charles Street represents a medieval building which was gradually transformed by Renaissance and Baroque elements.

The eastern side, which faces into Bethlehem Square and the surrounding streets, bears a richer variety of styles. Here it stands the House of the Golden Chair, originally part of the property of the Roudnický monastery, the House of the Švandas with a neo-Renaissance treatment from 1874, or the well-named House of the White Cock, which in today's form dates from 1855 to 1863 and represents a significantly neo-Renaissance character. The three-storey rental buildings from the second half of the 19th century, which brought the eclectic facade which decorated Lili to this day, complement many houses. Among the projection attractions is the house number 16 from 1898, designed by Václav Romáček, or the number 20 from 1905 by Edvard Rechziegel.

Lilio is not only a passageway street but a cross section of the construction style and urban fate of Old Town. The walk offers readers of architectural layers - from Gothic foundations to baroque reconstructions to historical adaptation and rental houses of the 19th age, which transformed the face of medieval Prague.