Writers & poets: Franz Kafka; Milan Kundera; Karel Čapek; Jaroslav Hašek; Bohumil Hrabal; Jaroslav Seifert (Nobel Prize Laureate); Vítězslav Nezval
Composers: Antonín Dvořák; Leoš Janáček; Bedřich Smetana; Bohuslav Martinů
Movies:
People: Miloš Forman; Jiří Menzel, Jan Svěrák; Karel Zeman; Jan Švankmajer; Jiří Trnka; Věra Chytilová; Miroslav Ondříček
Movements: Czech New Wave (1960s) & Czeski film (ask a Polish friend to explain!)
Painters: Alfons Mucha (Art Nouveau), Emil Filla & Josef Čapek (Cubism), František Kupka (Abstract), Toyen & Jindřich Štyrský (Surrealism)
Folk traditions and crafts: Many regionally specific traditions, including nine Czech traditions recognized by UNESCO as Intangible Cultural Heritage
Beer culture:
deep inside the Czech DNA, which is also written into the landscape, cultivated to produce the necessary crops, including the UNESCO protected “Žatec hop-growing region” with a tradition over 700 years
home of world-famous breweries, but also hundreds and hundreds small craft breweries
