WHEN SIMON Brabec and Eliska Slamova decided to open a visitor-friendly factory and showroom for their backpack company, Braasi, they knew precisely where it should be: in Holesovice, a formerly rundown neighborhood in the Prague 7 district, northeast of Old Town. Bisected and partially cut off by railway lines and bordered on three other sides by a loop of the Vitava River, Holesovice (pronounced hoh-lesh-oh-vit-seh) was long overlooked in favor of Prague’s picturesque, easy-to-love Old Town and Malá Strana areas just nearby. “A hundred years ago it was a low-cost labor district, because of the slaughterhouses and the...

Source: Wall Street Journal May 16, 2019 17:00 UTC