Karlín Square

This guide to Karlín Square in Prague traces the eight different names this patch of cobblestones has worn since it was first laid out, as regimes came and went and each wanted its own name on the signpost. It follows the neo-Romanesque church that has stood behind it since 1863, and the flood of August 2002 that sent the Vltava rising so fast officials evacuated the district before dawn. Stand under the church's twin towers, seventy-eight meters up, unmoved through it all.