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130 years of Prague trams on parade

07/19/2021
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Photo: Paul-Henri Perrain, Radio Prague International

On July 18, 1891 František Křižík opened the first tram stop in Prague on Letná plain near Stromovka park. It was from the same spot that the Prague Public Transit Company sent a column of 13 historic and modern trams last Sunday, exactly 130 years later.

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