Dejvice
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Dejvice is a historical community, a municipal quarter of the Prague 6 district of Prague, Czech Republic. Dejvice chained off itself from Prague Castle.
[edit] History
The history of modern Dejvice as of a city quarter begins in 1920s. That time, it was an entire part, with its centre in at Vítězne náměstí (Victory Square) standing at once, under modern urban architecture development plan by Antonín Engel. The tram line was established incorporate with a trolleybus by wartime. The build up of the quarter was also kept on. From the Victory Square it sequentially shifted to the North to Podbaba neighborhood. During the war there was also an International Hotel built, as a symbol of the Social Realism in Czechoslovakia. In the year of 1978 the metro line was extended to Dejvice (station was named Leninova, now it is Dejvická). Todays motorway, called Evropska also appeared that time. That time it was also called Leninova. The airport, united with the center of Prague, and that newly built neighborhood, by asequency of primary streets.
[edit] Character of the Quarter
Dejvice are relatively luxurious residential quarter, even a dominantly great in post-secondary schools, and armies. But it includes many dwelling sites with in mosaics places with the acting royal representation. This neighborhood is treasured near as a central region of Prague, by its great areas of Greenery, such as Divoka Sarka and Stromovka.
Between the Evropska and Yugoslavian Partizan streets the university campus begins and the Deans office of the Eelctronics Department of the Prague Technology University, as well the construction and architecture departments. There is also VŠCHT with the theology seminary.
[edit] Transportation
Dejvice is linked with the center of Prague by multiple tram lines (8,20,25,26, and more). The metro line A terminated in Dejvice, and gets to the heart of the city in minutes. Ruzyně International Airport is accessible from Dejvice by a bus # 119, which travels down Evropska in 20 minutes.
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