Travel with Rick Steves · Saturday, October 31, 2026
Jacob Mikonowski notes that while Poland maintains a strong Catholic culture surrounding cemeteries and burials, the Czech Republic functions as a post-Christian, highly secular society where cremation is dominant.
“There's one place in Eastern Europe that loves cremation, and it's the Czech Republic. People get cremated, people... It's the dominant way of getting buried, and people will often even not claim the ashes. And it is maybe the most secular place in Eastern Europe.”