Farmers' Saturday market

This guide to Prague's Saturday farmers market traces what this Vltava riverbank was before the stalls: a rough timber-rafting quay where raftsmen from the old Podskali settlement floated logs downriver from the Sumava forests and hauled them ashore for lumber and firewood. It follows the embankment's transformation between 1870 and 1905, when steamboats and sand diggers replaced the raftsmen, and traces how long the old river traffic lingered before today's market stalls took over.