Prague City Hall offers free admission to some sites, in place of fireworks or video mapping

Prague City Hall will not organize New Year's fireworks or a video mapping show this year, a spokesman for the municipality reported. Instead people will get admission for free (or a symbolic price) to Prague Zoo, the Botanical Gardens, Prague towers and a number of other institutions on January 1. Visitors will be asked to present a public transport card or ID to prove that they live in Prague. In view of the recent tragedy at the Faculty of Arts many Czech cities have scrapped their plans for fireworks displays or other boisterous celebrations. Fireworks will not be held in Prague, Brno and Olomouc, among others, on the other hand, Ostrava, Zlín and Plzeň will hold them as planned.