If seen from the eye of a layman, there is nothing special about the Franz Kafka Square, also known as Náměstí Franze Kafky. It is not exceptionally large or beautiful or magnificently historic. It was as a matter of fact created very recently, in the year 2000, from a part of the Radnice Street in the Old Town of Prague. It now links Radnice with the streets of Kaprova and Maislova, thus serving as a crossroads of sorts where some of the most vital centres of the city intersect. The spot was the chosen one only because the house in which Prague’s most precious writer Franz Kafka was born, once stood here. The structure, unfortunately, was knocked down in 1897 when the Jewish Quarter was cleared.
However, none of this has deterred the square from being exclusive and worthy of all the attention in the world especially from travellers and worshippers of the author. And then, as a matter of course, it is the youngest square in the historic centre of Praha. The writer might not be a part of the mortal world anymore, but he definitely has his way of breathing life into things. There is no doubting the fact that the city of Prague will always belong to Kafka in the form of his several manifestations.