Baba - the functionalist pearl of Europe

There are few places in Prague outside of the historic center that you will meet foreign tourists with bedekras in hand as they wander through the residential area, somewhere on the very edge of Prague, far from the center. But something like this is quite common on Baba. Baba is a unique functionalist villa district, originally created at the beginning of the thirties, as an exhibition of modern living. Similar districts in Austria and Germany were during the war…