22 Golden Lane

In Prague castle there's a row of tiny houses built into the castle

wall known as Zlata Ulicka, Golden Lane. They were built in the 16th

century for the craftsmen of the castle, It was on this street, or so

legend has it, that 16th century alchemists laboured to discover the

secrets of the Philosopher's Stone. Franz Kafka lived from 1916 to

1917 in the blue house, number 22, on the left.