Wenceslas Square Activities

I work in a great location right on Wenceslas Square which is a bustling tourist and office location very much in the center of the city. The top end of the square (not really a square but actually a long wide avenue) houses the National Museum and the lower end is part of an open pedestrian zone. Throughout the year there are various festivals, shows, etc. that take place in the square and as summer has approached the things going on there have gotten more interesting. During the Christmas and Easter times it was filled with the wooden stalls of toys, gifts and food that we've blogged out before. In the last couple months (I'm sure I am only remembering a few) I have seen some type of car exhibit, presentations by an environmental group, a shopping display from some party store, a basketball tournament with hip hop DJ, what appeared to be a talent competition with people singing or dancing on stage in front of the crowd and perhaps the oddest yet, pole vaulting. Yes, I left work recently and saw a crowd gathered so I stopped to look. I saw one man on an elevated platform stretching out and wasn't sure what was going on. Suddenly he picked up the pole and began sprinting down this platform towards the bar and large padded landing zone I hadn't noticed before and successfully cleared his target height to cheers from the audience. I've never seen pole vaulting live before and certainly hadn't expected my first viewing to be in the center of Prague.