Monument to the dead of hunger at the foot of the funicular leading to the viewpoint of Petrin. Hunger Wall It is a wall

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Monument to the dead of hunger at the foot of the funicular leading to the viewpoint of Petrin. Hunger Wall It is a wall, across the park, extending almost from the Vltava river, at the height of Ujezd station where the cable car up to the Strahov Monastery. Why is that name? Certainly not devoured passers or anything like that ... This wall was built in the time of Charles IV, between 1360 and 1362, when a famine seriously affected the city. The emperor decided to expand defensive fortifications south of Malá Strana, using especially the poor and providing in return food for themselves and their families.

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