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For the upper and middle classes, the ballroom season (January–February before Lent) was sacred. Grand balls at Prague’s Žofín Palace (built 1837) featured waltzes, quadrilles, and galops. The most famous event—the Reprezentační ples (Grand Ball)—still continues today.

Opened in Prague in 1881, it remains a symbol of national identity and a premier venue for world-class opera and drama. czechbitch 19