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20 years ago The summit, attended by 18,000 people from all over the world, was held from September 26 to 29, 2000, at the Congress Hall in Prague. Much criticized by anti-globalization and other activists, the event gave rise to a major protest with...

Discovering the Prague 7 area on the Vltava river bend The Líbeň bridge and the Negrelli viaduct. The Marina residential complex and the Holešovická tržnice market. The Cross and the SaSaZu. The river port. The spicy lights of the ShowPark. Despite its appearance, Holešovice...

50 years ago It was the morning of June 8, 1970, when eight young men, four men and four women, armed with pistols and knives, forced the pilot of the Soviet-made Ilyushin Il-14 flying between Karlovy Vary and Prague, to change the route, and...

The debate on the risk that the Czech capital may lose protection as a World Heritage Site. The main focus is on large developmental projects within the buffer zone around the protected area The fate of Prague’s historic center, or perhaps of the entire...

50 years ago On September 18, 1970, the Czech poet Stanislav Neumann committed suicide in Prague. Born in the Czechoslovakian capital on October 17, 1927, Neumann was, besides a poet, also a translator and journalist. His grandfather was the poet Stanislav Kostka Neumann (1875–1947),...

100 years ago The voice and the official ideology of the Czechoslovak Communist Party, this is what the daily “Rudé parvo” was in the years before the fall of the Wall. “The red law”, or “The red truth”, is the translation of the header...

The great Italian cinema returns to the Czech Republic this year as well, for a livestream eighth edition, that doesn’t put quality second With a selection of eleven films from the current Italian film season, the MittelCinemaFest 2020 kicks off on Thursday, November 26,...

A circle of painters and writers remembered as an important example of contact between official culture and mystical and esoteric thought, particularly in vogue in the Europe of the early twentieth century At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, and mainly at...

A universal – and personal – revolution born in Prague, in the beginnings of XX century As if stirred up by excitement, he was walking all muffled up and at a brisk pace under the zinc spears, the first illuminated windows, and the slow-flowing...

Karel Moor was a Czech composer and orchestra conductor who lived between 1873 and 1945. Born in Lázně Bělohrad, in the quiet Bohemian province, from a restless character and a prolific artist, he participated with energy and strength in the development of the Czech...