The first president of the Czech Republic, Václav Havel, was a playwright-turned-statesman who lived mostly in Prague, frequented its Reduta Jazz Club with Bill Clinton, and rose to prominence during the 1968 Prague Spring. Which small Bohemian spa town, famous for its mineral springs, did he attend as a boarding-school student in his teens?

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Poděbrady. Václav Havel, the first president of the Czech Republic, studied at a boarding school in Poděbrady as a young man. Later, in Prague, Havel co-founded Charter 77 and other dissident groups, and the city's international airport was renamed Václav Havel Airport Prague in 2012.