Politics
Václav Havel
Addresses you can still visit
Every place in this city with a documented tie to this person.
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ABC Theatre
His 1959 employment as a stagehand here prompted his decision to pursue theatre professionally.
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Buquoy Palace and the Mitterrand Breakfast
He represented the Czechoslovak opposition at Mitterrand's landmark breakfast with dissidents.
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Café Slavia
He met literary friends and later fellow dissidents here over several decades.
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Dana and Jiří Němec Apartment
He joined discussions and dissident work in the apartment, which also became associated with the completion of the 1989 petition A Few Sentences.
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Drama Club
He participated in the meeting at which Civic Forum was founded.
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Jaroslav Kořán’s Apartment and the Birthplace of Charter 77
He helped formulate the founding declaration of Charter 77 during meetings in this apartment.
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Libri Prohibiti
His forbidden writings circulated in the samizdat networks whose surviving materials are preserved here.
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Martin and Ivanka Hybler’s Apartment
He worked here with Jan Patočka on the wording of the founding Charter 77 declaration.
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Melantrich Building
He delivered landmark revolutionary speeches from the Melantrich balcony in November 1989.
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New Stage and Former Civic Forum Headquarters
He and other opposition leaders shaped Civic Forum's revolutionary strategy and public statements from the theater.
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Ruzyně Remand Prison
During communist imprisonment, including custody at Ruzyně, he wrote letters to Olga that developed into a major work of dissident thought.
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Site of the U Čelikovských Inn
His forbidden adaptation of The Beggar's Opera received its world premiere at the now-demolished inn.
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Škroupovo Square
He addressed the legally permitted human-rights demonstration here on 10 December 1988.
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Theatre on the Balustrade
He worked here from 1960 to 1968 and premiered several plays that established his international reputation.
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Václav and Olga Havel's Riverside Apartment
He lived and worked here, and the text of Charter 77 was drafted in his study.
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