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  • The amount of wormwood in the drink is negligible.

  • Alchemists tended to live on credit in houses in town.

  • The Nazis turned Prague’s film studios into a propaganda mill during World War II, as did the Communists, but today they are thriving as western filmmakers discover Prague (see Film Locations).

  • This unpasteurized beer has a distinct, bitter-sweet flavour and a hoppy aroma.

  • The house where Mozart and his wife stayed while the composer worked on Don Giovanni has been turned into a small museum on his life.

  • Braník is made with real Vltava river water, giving it its distinct flavour.

  • St Adalbert founded this Benedictine monastery in 993. You can see remains of the Romanesque church, and the 18th-century church of St Margaret.

  • Brewed in the town of České Budějovice, the beer is no relation to the American Budweiser (see There’s Only One Bud).

  • The image of Lennon was the post-Communist work of a Mexican art student (see John Lennon Wall).

  • Some Czechs claim that a Celtic tribe known as the Boii inhabited Bohemia, but their roots are Germanic and Slavic.

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