Czech Holidays

National Holidays in Czech Republic

National holidays:
January 1 - (beginning in 2001) Establishment Day, celebrating the creation of the Czech Republic in 1993
Easter Monday
May 1 - Labor Day
May 8 - Liberation Day, celebrating the end of World War II
July 5 - Constantin and Methodius Day (Cyril a Metodej), celebrating the first Christian missionaries to the Czech Republic
July 6 - Jan Hus Day, celebrating the religious reformer who was burned at the stake in 1415
September 28 - St. Wenceslas Day, celebrating the patron of the Czech State
October 28 - Czechoslovakian Statehood Day, establishment of democratic Czechoslovakia in 1918
November 17 - (beginning in 2001) Freedom and Democracy Day, commemorating the anti-Nazi student demonstrations of 1939 and the anti-Communist demonstrations of 1989
December 24 - Christmas Eve
December 25 and 26 - Christmas Holidays