Kožná Street is one of those that connects the “arteries of tourism”, but they themselves are essentially aside of interest. So while every visitor to Prague knows Melantrichova and Železná streets, this alley that connects them, is quiet and calm – if you enter it, you feel like you are in the abandoned scenery of the movie.
Its original name was U zlatého medvěda (At the Golden Bear), after the house At the two Golden Bears (No. 475/8), which is one of the oldest houses in Prague. (The house is also interesting in that in 1885 a “furious reporter” and writer Egon Ervín Kisch was born in it.)
In the 19th century, the street came to be called Kožná, because leather processing workshops were located here.
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