"Czech Republic:
In the Czech Republic we have three kinds of holidays: There are public holidays, religious holidays and family celebrations.
- We celebrate many public holidays, for example New Year’s Eve, which we call Silvestr. We celebrate the beginning of the new year. Everyone enjoys the end of the year, people drink champagne at midnight and people wish happiness and prosperity to each other.
- Other public holidays are: the New Year’s Day on January the 1st, a holiday of work on May the 1st, Liberation of our country from Nazis on May the 8th, the Day of Saint Cyril and Saint Method od July the 5th, the Day of Master Jan Hus on July the 6th. The beginning of independent Czechoslovakia on October the 28th, etc.
- There are special holidays too, for example the Day of Saint Valentine on February the 14th, when people give presents and chocolate to the people who they love, they send cards to them, spend time with them.
- The most popular holiday is Christmas. We celebrate this holiday on December the 24th. We start to prepare for Christmas four weeks before this holiday, it is called Advent time. People start to buy Christmas presents, women start to bake Christmas cookies and clean and decorate their houses. They also send Christmas postcards to the family members or friends. Especially small children look forward to Christmas Eve very much, the believe in the „Infant Jesus“."

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