What is one of the hottest, most valuable pieces of marketing real estate in the Czech Republic these days? Large surfaces within Prague 7 that can be repurposed for visually stimulating murals.

Tucked in between the meandering Vltava River and Stromovka, Prague’s largest park, sits the 7,1 square kilometer, appropriately numbered 7th district of Prague.

“Prague doesn’t let you go...This little mother has claws.” —Franz Kafka

I reflect on seventeen of the changes that I have witnessed here in the Czech Republic over the course of seventeen years.

It may look small on a map, but the Czech Republic has had a sizable number of influencers whose work affects daily life in ways you likely never knew.

Here are six notable Czechs and how their work affects you.