Vyšehrad Cemetery
Hilltop national burial ground for Czech writers, composers and artists above a river bend.
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This guide to Vyšehrad Cemetery in Prague opens in 1939, four months after playwright Karel Čapek's death, when the Gestapo arrived at his villa looking to arrest a man they had branded public enemy number two for warning against fascism. Finding no writer to arrest, they took his wife, the actress Olga Scheinpflugová, in for questioning instead. Look for his gravestone on this hilltop above the river, where Czechs chose to bury their writers, composers and painters together.
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