National Holidays = no school !!!
1st January | Foundation Day of the Czech Republic (1.1.1993) |
Easter Monday | Easter Holiday |
1st May | Labour Day |
8th May | Liberation Day – celebrating the end of World War II |
5th July | Constantine and Methodius Day – celebrating the arrival of the Christian missionaries sent from Byzantine Empire to the Czech lands |
6th July | Master Jan Hus Day – commemoration of the religious reformer´s death at the stake in 1415 |
28th September | St. Wenceslas Day – in remembrance of the patron of the Czech State |
28th October | Czechoslovakian Statehood Day – establishment of the democratic Czechoslovakia in 1918 |
17th November | Freedom and Democracy Day – commemorating the anti-Nazi student demonstrations of 1939 and the anti-Communist demonstrations of 1989 |
24th December | Christmas Eve |
25, 26th December | Christmas Holiday |