Velká Chuchle
Velká Chuchle is part of Prague situated in the southwest of the city. It is part of Praha 5 administrative district.
The district includes Prague-Velká Chuchle Racecourse, Prague's only horse-racing track, offering flat racing on most Sundays from April to October. The track was founded in 1906.
This horse - racing track visited the first Czechoslovak president Thomas Garrigue Masarykvery often too, and the basic school in Velká Chuchle has from 1930 the name of his wife Charlotte.
Malá Chuchle, a part of Velká Chuchle, is the site of so-called Chuchle battle in 1881.
There is an interesting old limekiln with the duplex Pacold's shaft furnace – unique technical monument from the second half of the 19th century – to see in Velká Chuchle:
