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  1. SECTION ONE - WENCESLAS
  2. SQUARE
  3.  
  4. Welcome to Prague and to this MP3Cityguides tour of the historic capital of the
  5. Czech Republic.
  6. Please keep an eye out for traffic and pick pockets.
  7. OK, you should now be standing in the middle of Wenceslas Square by the tram
  8. cafe. You should also be able to see the steps going down to the Mustek Metro
  9. station and the green sign for the station.
  10. The first thing you'll notice as you look along Wenceslas Square is that this isn't
  11. really a square at all - it's really a broad boulevard.
  12. The square was laid out over 600 years ago as part of the extension to Prague
  13. known as the New Town or Nove Mesto to give it its Czech name and it was
  14. originally called the Horse market. Despite its age most of the buildings only date
  15. back to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and that's partly because this is one
  16. of the most vibrant, constantly changing parts of the city.
  17. Ever since it was established, Wenceslas square has been at the centre of
  18. commerce, new ideas and revolution. It was here that in November 1989 over a
  19. quarter of a million people turned up night after night to demand the end of the
  20. Communist state. Twenty years earlier there had been clashes here between the
  21. authorities and Czechs protesting at the Soviet occupation of their country and it
  22. was in this square in 1969 that a young student, Jan Palach, set fire to himself in
  23. protest against this occupation.
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