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The Czech Republic is a republic in Central Europe. Formerly the country formed together with Slovakia the country Czechoslovakia. Czech Republic bordering Germany, Poland, Slovakia and Austria. The capital of the Czech Republic is Prague. The city of Prague has an enormous wealth of historical and cultural monuments. Famous tourist attractions are the burchtheuvel (The Prague castle is still the government and includes a complex of palaces and churches where kings had their residency) with the St. Vitus Cathedral. In the old centre (the former Jewish district Josefov) are synagogues and stately homes in eclectic styles and Jugendstil. It is also the old town square Staromestske Namesti with the statue of Jan Hus, the old cityhall and Tyn church (Tynsky chram). The Wenceslas Square is the repository for celebrations, commemorations and demonstrations. For example this square was full of Protestants at the time of the Velvet Revolution in late 1989. After the failure of the Prague Spring in 1969 put the student Jan Palach himself on fire in the square. On this location are still flowers to memorate him. Other places of interest are: Jewish museum (Zidovske museum), the Golden Street where the Prague writer Franz Kafka lived and the Charles Bridge over the Vltava. Besides Prague a touristic atttraction is Moravia with its city of Brno. It is an attractive hilly landscape with many forests, rivers and fields and contains a number of beautiful castles and fortresses. Although this area is less well known to tourists than Bohemia (the Bohemian Paradise), it is better to visit this part of the Czech Republic.

Winter is a collective term for all types of sports that are on ice or snow. So skiing, snowboarding, cross-country skiing, biathlon, skating, bobsleigh, curling, ice hockey ga and so on. Skiing is ride on snow or a kunstskibaan using one or more "planks", skis, which at the feet (shoes) are confirmed *. That sounds more complicated than it is. Actually it's just the two battens down a mountainside. Snowboarding is a sport where you stand on a board with vastgemaakte shoes descends on a snowy mountainside or piste. The snowboarding was invented by a surfer, who thought you with a different kind of board like a wave of the mountain had to be. Actually there is only since the 70s. And you should see it now: it is hugely popular. Cross-country skiing is a sort of glide and anticipate slats. Or put it another way, skating on cross country skis. These are longer and thinner than skis used in skiing. In addition to the skis do you need sticks to you to continue. There are two different ways to cross-country skiing. You have the classic style, where you essentially marketing with the skis, supported by the poles. You 'runs' than with the skis. The "free style" similar to the schaatstechniek; you get sideways with, or sometimes without, poles. Cross-country skiing you can do on a trail, which is called a track. In the classical technique that two tracks. For the free style ga you have made a smooth trail. Biatlon is actually a kind of cross, which you must geweerschieten on a goal. At certain points on the trail the athlete must stop and shoot a goal. Do you target, that means you lose time, because usually there is an additional circle walked / geskate again for your mag.

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