Wandering in Slatiny, we find a district of Prague where the often urgent pace of development taking place in the rest of the city seems, not only absent, but to have completely stopped some decades ago. Originally set up in the early 1920s as an “emergency colony” to quickly house returning legionnaires and others in need of living space, this out-of-the-way neighborhood still evinces the ramshackle, improvised character of its beginnings.
Hear also this recording: From the high vantage point of Hus’s Stone (Husův Kamen) near Slatiny, I record the oceanic roar of the late Friday afternoon traffic on the main urban ring bypass (městský okruh) of Prague.