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Laure is the curator of the Museum of Broken Promises in Paris. When she leaves France and arrives in Prague, in the summer of 1986, she feels that she has been catapulted into a world with less vivid colors, less vibrant voices, and less...

The HBO series, the country’s great television event of recent times, offers an excellent analysis of the fateful days that preceded the Velvet Revolution We are in London in the autumn of 1989 where two Czechoslovakian exiles, the young violinist Marie (Táňa Pauhofová) and...

Braník, a district known for its brewery, was once famous because rather than beer, ice was kept cool The sleepy Braník district is located on the right bank of the Vltava in the south of Prague. It is suspended between the Podolí Riviera and...

75 years ago It was 27 June 1950 when the Czech politician and jurist Milada Horáková, a symbol of the first anti-Nazi and then anti-communist resistance, was executed in the Pankrác prison in Prague, sentenced for conspiracy and treason. Horáková was 48 years old...

75 years ago The Prague Uprising was the prelude to the military offensive of the same name that followed, and which marked the last major military operation of the Second World War on the European front. The Uprising (Czech: Pražské povstání), which began on...

“Prague 1987” is the photographic story of a trip to a city with a very different face than the one revealed today. The book is a document published a few years before the Velvet Revolution and the division between the Czech Republic and Slovakia....

At the beginning of the seventeenth century, Prague was the capital of the empire ruled by Rudolf II of Habsburg, a visionary sovereign, a lover of arts, sciences and alchemy. Scientists like Tycho Brahe and Kepler himself along with artists, occultists but also charlatans,...

600 years ago The hill of Vítkov today provides a suggestive panorama of Prague and is particularly known for hosting one of the largest equestrian statues in the world, that of the Hussite leader Jan Žižka. It was here that on 14 July 1420...

The tragic and controversial parable of the President who decided to say yes to Hitler Emil Hácha is one of the most controversial and most tragic characters in the history of this country. Traitor or patriot? Looking back on the tragic parable that brought...

The Czech Republic celebrates the 150th anniversary of the birth of the Moravian countercurrent architect who carried Europe towards the Modern Movement Adolf Loos would have turned 150 years old this year. And a little less than ninety years ago, in October 1930, he...