Actually it's not a happy celebration... see, Saint Wenceslas (the patron saint of the Czech Republic) was king, and on this day in 935 his jealous brother, Boleslav, murdered him in order to dethrone him and rule Bohemia.
So it is a national holiday and I didn't have to go to school! In honor of good King Wenceslas a few friends and I hopped a train to nearby Kutna Hora to do some sightseeing outside of the city. Just an hour train ride south east of Prague, Kutna Hora is home to a few cathedrals, a quaint town, and a church with decorations made of thousands of bones leftover from a mass epidemic and a couple of wars hundreds of years ago.
Check out my pictures here!
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