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He committed suicide to protest against the Soviet invasion and over the years, the figure of Jan Palach has inspired a number of Italian musicians “When life came to a standstill in the square / the wounded crowd was sweating blood, when the flames,...

The twenty years of Alphonse Mucha in the “Ville-Lumière”. The father of Art Nouveau is told through opera divas, jewelry boutiques and seances in the Paris of the Exposition Universelle “I had no clothes. So I made do with a tail coat hired for...

After several not exactly stellar years, Czech cinema seems to have emerged from hibernation, as displayed in the last Karlovy Vary festival. “Dramedies” such as Kobry a Užovky and Domácí péče, as well as the documentary Mallory, promise to bring international success back to...

From December 16 to March 27 Laurin & Klement The National Technical Museum in Prague celebrates the triple anniversary of Laurin & Klement cars with an exhibition. Their story began 120 years ago, in December 1895, when bookseller Václav Klement and mechanic Václav Laurin...

Drought and climate change have become dramatic in Bohemia and Moravia. The time has come for Prague to rethink its strategy of management of the blue gold The Czech Republic is experiencing one of the worst droughts in the past 500 years, and to...

Nei suoi occhi verdi Finally coming out in Italian, following the translation by Letizia Kostner for Keller Publishing house, is the work: “Nei suoi occhi verdi” by the Czech Jewish writer and Auschwitz survivor, Arnošt Lustig (1926-2011). Lustig, considered one of the most important...

From December 15 to March 20 Tiziano Vanitas From the 15th of December the Imperial Stables of Prague Castle will host the exhibition Tiziano Vanitas. A prominent artist of the Venetian school of the sixteenth century, Titian painted landscapes, mythological and religious subjects, but...

  January the 1st New Year fireworks The New Year’s fireworks are characterized by the number six. The show begins at six in the evening of January 1, lasts 616 seconds divided into six scenes and remembers six famous characters whose jubilee will arrive...

The most beautiful festivity of the year in the Czech Republic is permeated with the idyllic atmosphere of Josef Lada A soft blanket of snow covers the roof tops of the houses and bell towers. During the day, smiling children with flushed cheeks –...

From the 12th to the 14th of December Swan Lake The Russian Royal Ballet will perform for the first time in the Czech Republic with ballet par excellence, Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake. The group, which has carried the reputation of Russian ballet school in the...