Spotlight Beautiful Letna Park - wide walkways, gorgeous trees, the ghost of Stalin, and the skateboarder's cure

07-05-2003 | Jan Velinger

There seems to be no end in sight to the rush of cars on Milada Horakova avenue in Prague, one of the main arteries leading through the Czech capital. It is a day when temperatures are soaring to record highs - somewhere in the neighbourhood of thirty degrees Celsius. On the other side of the throughway, Prague's famous Letna park and Letna plain, where Czechs as well as foreign visitors and residents go to rest, exercise, have picnics, take lovely walks and generally appreciate the most outstanding views of the city there are. Let's not stay a second longer on this noisy and dusty street, but escape to Letna - our destination in today's Spotlight...

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