 The hill, almost entirely covered with parks, is a favorite recreational area for the inhabitants of Prague.The hill (in German known as "Laurenziberg") is featured prominently in Franz Kafka's early short story "Description of a Struggle" and briefly in Milan Kundera's novel "The Unbearable Lightness of Being".The chronicler Cosmas describes Petřín as a very rocky place, the hill is allegedly called Petřín because of the large number of rocks (Latin