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In honour of Americans who liberated the city from Nacists (then they stopped and waited for Russians, because those two countries decided that Czechoslovakia will fall to the Soviet sphere of influence after the war) in the end of WWII many places in Plzeň are named after American politics and famous soldiers, like this bridge on the Radbuza River after Woodrow Wilson (who's name is connected with the formation of independent Czechoslovakia in 1918). Another bridge in the city is named after Franklin D. Roosevelt. Wilson's Bridge was built in 1913 and originally had a name Most císaře Františka Josefa I (The Bridge of Emperor Franz Joseph I), after the independence on Austria it got today's name, during Communist era this was changed to The Stalin's Bridge and than again back to Wilson's Bridge after the fall of Soviet Empire.

The building in the background is Western Bohemian Museum.

Taken from the Denisovo nábřeží (nábřeží = quay).