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The castle of north-western Bohemia was included by the association Europa Nostra in the list of the seven most threatened monuments of the Old Continent Like a distant echo, you hear the creaking of bulldozers. And the horizon is a valley ravaged by machines,...

Before it was built, the Kotva department store had already made a name for itself, never again abandoning the limelight Like many buildings, the Kotva department store has at least one story to tell. In the centre of Prague, it is certainly not the...

600 year ago Born on April 23 of the year 1420, George of Podĕbrady was king of Bohemia, and was responsible for the restructuring of Utraquism, which up until then had been shaken by internal struggles, and giving it its due political weight. He...

30 years ago The agreement to end the Soviet military presence The occupation of Czechoslovakia by Soviet troops that began in August 1968 and was ratified by the treaty of October 16 the same year, would end only twenty-two years later, following the fall...

Giuliana Sarti was born in Portoferraio, on the Island of Elba, and graduated in Literary studies from the University of Rome. For many years she lived abroad with her husband and two children, and during her travels she also spent a period in Prague,...

The book captures an absolutely decisive period for the transformation of western society, that is, the time span between 1968 and 1989, with the fall of the Berlin Wall. In the foreground is the great figure of Václav Havel as a playwright and the...

The Czechoslovak film made for the Expo 67 today appears to be the real precursor to Bandersnatch, the revolutionary attempt at an interactive film recently presented by Netflix “The TV of tomorrow”, was the expression used by the British newspaper The Guardian, while the...

Discovering a little-known and long-abandoned building in Prague that deserves to be preserved. It’s a rare case, here in the Czech Republic, of a secessionist-style station Right now, Praha-Vyšehrad train station is not really a building that catches the eye. It can be found...

The Chudobín Pine, which has shared the joys and sorrows of the locality for 350 years, is the European Tree of the year A bit short with a slightly twisted trunk, similar to a slightly grown bonsai, sometimes overlooks the Svratka river and the...

Over the years, in addition to state measures, the efforts of Catholic and lay associations have been decisive in trying to alleviate the suffering of the homeless in Prague It was a Tuesday evening of early January at Vltavská, the Prague 7 metro station...