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One hundred years after the death of Emperor Franz Joseph, we remember the relationship he had with the Kingdom of Bohemia, from his coronation in Olomouc, until his death in 1916 Rigid and strict, first of all towards himself, he demanded similar behavior also...

To the discovery a popular district in Prague which, in the last few years, has embarked on a new development path Going along the busy Francouzská street, that, after a short distance from Náměstí Míru, steeply descends the south-east side of the hill, on...

On the eve of the Great War, Herbert, a waiter of a Prague café, retraces the days spent inside a castle belonging to a noble family from the Kingdom of Bohemia. Through a meeting in the café where he works, he meets the lady...

Immortalized by a series of memorable performances, Rudolf Hrušínský still remains an icon of Czech cinema in the world today. An impressively versatile actor, able to masterfully play such diametrically opposed roles as that of hilarious soldier Švejk and the diabolical Kopfrkingl “Nobody will...

“Fiabe di Praga magica (Parola di Fiaba)”, i.e. fairytales of magic Prague, is the new edition of the collection of short stories resulting from the research of Scilla Abbiati Sivazliyan. The extravagance of the situations and characters in this collection is typical of the...

After the spring successes, the Czech Republic was surprised by the second wave of the coronavirus in the autumn The return of the pandemic at the end of the summer had a decidedly abrupt impact on the Czech Republic, which was, at least initially,...

Born in Malé Svatoňovice, Bohemia, at the time of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Karel Čapek (1890-1938) studied philosophy in Prague before pursuing a career as a journalist. Today Čapek is considered one of the greatest Czechoslovakian writers of the early 1900s. Author of plays, short...

Visiting the headquarters of the European Global Navigation Satellite Systems Agency In the Praguian district of Holešovice, near the Vltava, rises the building that houses the European Global Navigation Satellite Systems Agency (GNSS), better known by the acronym GSA. GSA primarily deals with the...

How many books have been written on the relationship between Kafka and his city? Many, yet there is always something left to say. In fact, between the city of Prague and Kafka there is a very particular bond, both because most of his works...

Built at the end of the 19th century, as one of the most advanced detention centres in Europe, it is still an important institution in the Czech Republic’s criminal justice system Named after the district that hosts it, Prague 4, Pankrác prison was built...