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  • Streets fill with carp sellers and hedonists drinking mulled wine.

  • The Greek missionaries brought both Christianity and the Cyrillic alphabet to the Slavs (see Cathedral of Sts Cyril and Methodius).

  • On St Wenceslas Day, as most Czechs call it, Bohemia’s history is recalled.

  • Plaques around town are adorned with flowers to remember those killed by the Germans in 1945.

  • The anniversary of the 1989 Velvet Revolution. Candles and flowers are placed in various locations.

  • Men give their women a gentle whipping with a willow switch. Ladies respond with eggs.

  • On this date in 1918 Czechoslovakia declared itself independent of Austro-Hungary.

  • Czechs head for the hills where they roast sausages (see Jan Hus).

  • It’s easier to hobnob with the stars here than at Cannes or Berlin. Hundreds of partygoers fairly turn the sleepy west Bohemian spa town upside down for 10 days. Hundreds of screenings, too.

  • Romantics lay flowers before the statue of Karel Hynech Macha on Petřín Hill.

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