Park in Vítkov

During the reign of Charles IV. vineyards began to be planted on the slopes. Some belonged to the Prague alderman Vítek z Hora, after whom the hill is named. On July 14, 7, the Hussite troops led by Jan Žižka won a victory over the Crusaders, and from that time the adjacent area was called Žižkov. Over the centuries, the vineyards were devastated, and only in the nineties of the 1420th century was František Thomayer asked to transform the unimproved hill...