District Mala Strana (Small Town), which is located below the Prague Castle on the banks of the Vltava River. The first settlements here arose in the first millennium on the site of trade routes. In the thirteenth century, the Mala Strana region received the status of a city. But here at that time there lived some German artisans, and the Czechs could not be townspeople and they were forbidden to settle here. Buildings in the style of Gothic and Renaissance because of several wars and fires are almost not preserved, the new buildings of the city were built in the Baroque style.