T.G.Masaryk - Masarykovo námestí (Slaný, Central Bohemia)
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The depicted modern bronze statue of the first Czechoslovak president Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk decorates main public space of Royal town Slaný - the square bearing president's name (Masarykovo námestí).
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Location: Středočeský kraj, Czechia
Date Posted: 04/03/2015
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The depicted modern bronze statue of the first Czechoslovak president Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk decorates main public space of Royal town Slaný - the square bearing president's name (Masarykovo námestí).
The bronze life-size statue on prismatic marble pedestal, work of sculptors Miroslav Pangrác and František Radvana, was ceremonially unveiled in October 28, 2000.
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (7 March 1850 – 14 September 1937), was a Czechoslovak politician, sociologist and philosopher, who as an eager advocate of Czechoslovak independence during World War I became the founder and first President of Czechoslovakia. He originally wished to reform the Austro-Hungarian monarchy into a democratic federal state, but during the First World War he began to favour the abolition of the monarchy and, with the help of the Allied Powers, eventually succeeded. [wiki]