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The amount of wormwood in the drink is negligible.
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Alchemists tended to live on credit in houses in town.
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The Nazis turned Prague’s film studios into a propaganda mill during World War II, as did the Communists, but today they are thriving as western filmmakers discover Prague (see Film Locations).
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This unpasteurized beer has a distinct, bitter-sweet flavour and a hoppy aroma.
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The house where Mozart and his wife stayed while the composer worked on Don Giovanni has been turned into a small museum on his life.
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Braník is made with real Vltava river water, giving it its distinct flavour.
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St Adalbert founded this Benedictine monastery in 993. You can see remains of the Romanesque church, and the 18th-century church of St Margaret.
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Brewed in the town of České Budějovice, the beer is no relation to the American Budweiser (see There’s Only One Bud).
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The image of Lennon was the post-Communist work of a Mexican art student (see John Lennon Wall).
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Some Czechs claim that a Celtic tribe known as the Boii inhabited Bohemia, but their roots are Germanic and Slavic.
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