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Lidice

, 27354 Lidice

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Sights - Memorials

Distance: 189 km

GPS: 50° 08' 36"N 14° 11' 21"E

This village, the name of which became a symbol of Fascist despotism in World War II, lies 20 km west of Prague and eight km from Kladno. Lidice is first mentioned in chronicles of the Zbraslav abbot, Petr Zitavsky, as being "held" by a rich Prague citizen, Pavlík, around the year l300. The oldest public building was St. Martin's church (1352). It was destroyed in the Hussite wars, but Utraquist priests were preaching here as late as in the 16th century. It was again destroyed during the Thirty years' War, and Grand Duchess Marie Anna of Tuscany had a new, Baroque church built which was restyled several times in the following years. The muse ...

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Memorials

 
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Lidice ico

This village, the name of which became a symbol of Fascist despotism in Wor

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Terezín ico

On the initiative of the newly created Czechoslovak government, in 1947 the