Wenceslas square

This square, named after the Czech patron saint, St Wenceslas is the Main boulevard and Square in Prague... it can hold up to 400 000 people so you just know that when there is change or trouble afoot in the Czech republic it has a place to congrigate. It has seen gatherings to overthrow monarchy, the nationalist upheavals in 1848, the independence of the Czechoslovakia from the Austrian monarchy was celebrated here in 1918 as well People gathered here in 1969 after the Soviet invasion into Czechoslovakia and the sqare was also the setting for the Velvet revolution in November 1989 which marked the withdrawal of the Communist regime. But probably the largest overthrow celebrated here was when Czech Ice Hockey team won the winter Olympics in 1998 in Nagano Japan marking the end of Canadian dominance of hockey in the olympics.