Christmas in Prague

Christmas is a very important holiday in the Czech Republic and Prague changes a lot starting in December. There are Christmas trees up throughout the city and in some of the major city squares there are lit Christmas trees and long rows of booths selling local goods, trinkets, roasted chestnuts, sausages, mulled wine, etc. There are Christmas lights on lamposts or on store fronts throughout the city. Our street, removed from down-town Prague, has some Christmas lights and on some days there has been Christmas music playing from speakers on the lamp posts.

Tonight we went into Old Town Square with the girls. Old Town Square is an amazing site at any time of year because of the amazing history and architecture in the square. During the Christmas season, with the rows of vendors, throngs of people and the enormous Christmas tree covered in flashing lights, it's the perfect way to get in the Christmas spirit. Perhaps the best sight tonight was standing in front of the Christmas tree, listening to the children's choir singing Chrismas songs on the stage, and then seeing the floodlit Tyn Church, built over six hundred years ago, towering over the square.