Abstract
The subject of the scientific monograph is the creation, development, meaning and historic changes of the Royal Route in Prague. The Royal Route, referred also to as the Coronation Procession, is presented as a symbolic name for a route connecting the territory of the Old Town, Little Quarter and Hradčany Czech rulers went through with their procession on the occasion of their coronation in St.
Vitus Cathedral at Prague Castle. The Royal Route represents an architectural and urban complex, whose majority of original medieval structures was later covered, especially on the outside of the buildings, by Baroque, Rococo, Classicist and other historically successive construction works.
The book does not omit buildings that have disappeared due to reforms carried out by Joseph II or construction changes of Prague at the turn of the 19th and 20th century, which included increased build-business activities and Prague sanitation. In addition to construction-historical development, the work focuses on the analysis of everyday life, especially the vanished mundane and festive life of people living in Old Prague, including trades, crafts, markets, shops and pubs.
The objective of the publication is to describe and interpret Old Prague through the optics of the Royal Route, which represents a unique complex of architectural and urbanistic structure, living history and specific world of the everyday life of the inhabitants of Old Prague.