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Letná
Tram #1, #5, #8, #12, #18, #20, #22, #25 or #26 to Sparta
Hovering above the city, the flat green expanse of the high
Letná
plain has long been the
traditional assembly point for invading and besieging armies. It was laid out as a public park
in the mid-nineteenth century and used under the Communists as the site of their
May Day
parades
. For these, thousands of citizens were dragooned into marching past the south side
of the city's main football ground, the Sparta stadium, where the old Communist cronies
would take the salute from a giant red podium. In November 1989, the largest demo of the
Velvet Revolution took place here, with nearly a million people gathering to support the gen-
eral strike. In 1990 the road by the football stadium was renamed after Milada Horáková, the
Socialist politician executed in a Communist show trial in 1950.
