Pilsen, Czech Republic, The Capital Of Beer

Pilsen is a city in the western Czech Republic with 169,858 inhabitants (2016), making the city the country's fourth largest city (after Prague, Brno and Ostrava). The city is known for its breweries, including Pivovar Prazdroj (founded in 1842, best known for Pilsner Urquell), which produced Pilsener Bier (hence the Swedish word pilsner). The company Škodaverken was founded in the city in 1859 and still has extensive production (Škoda cars have not been manufactured in Plzeň since 1924, but in Mladá Boleslav and the workshops in Plzeň have instead manufactured trolleybuses, locomotives, railway wagons and previously had extensive weapons production). Football goalkeeper Petr Čech was born in the city.
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