Radlice (Prague)
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Radlice (, german: Radlitz) is a district and cadastral area in the west of
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located in
Prague 5 Prague 5, formally the Prague Municipal District (''Městská čast Praha 5''), is a second-tier municipality in Prague. The administrative district (''správní obvod'') of the same name consists of municipal districts Prague 5 and Slivenec. P ...
, with a population of 1,952 (2021). It is bordered by
Smíchov Smíchov () is (since 1909) a district of Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic, and is part of Prague 5. It is on the west bank of the Vltava river. History Between 1945 and 1989, the district contained a monument dedicated to Soviet ta ...
to the east and north-east,
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to the north-west,
Jinonice Jinonice is a district of Prague Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 millio ...
to the west and Hlubočepy to the south. It became part of Prague in 1922. The area is served by Radlická station on the Prague Metro line B. The metro station along with its adjacent bus terminal was constructed in the 1980s, and markedly changed the character of the neighbourhood, with many old houses from Radlice's time as a village demolished to make way for the new infrastructure. A Jewish cemetery and the chapel of St. John Nepomucene survived the reconstruction of the neighbourhood.


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