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The Baba settlement is a First Republic functionalist villa colony on the southeastern part of the Baba promontory in Dejvice, Prague. It was built as one of the six European colonies of modern housing, which arose on the initiative of the Werkbund in the late 1920s and early 1930s. These colonies were to promote modern functionalist construction, affordable for the general public. The settlement of Baba is the only colony composed only of individual houses tailored to the investor. Within the functionalist colonies, Baba is one of the best preserved, because similar buildings in Vienna and Germany were damaged during World War II. The Baba settlement has been a city monument zone since 1993, and in 2020 it was awarded, together with other European functionalist units, the European Heritage brand.