Before I went to Prague, I read a lot about the many cobblestones in the city. All the guidebooks mentioned it, and if I asked anyone among my friends who had already been to this city, the cobblestone was said. Of course, Prague is only one of the many cobbled cities in Europe, but still, when I think of Prague souvenirs, I associate cobblestones. Millions of people walk across these stones yearly, and I was thinking about the stone’s story.
Prague’s landscape with cobblestones in 2022, Photo: Anetta Szakall
In the third century, the first recorded cobblestone roads appeared in Rome’s unique road network. Cobblestones were cheap, and there were plenty of them, as they were easy to pick up from rivers and streams.