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The premises, which arose at the beginning of the 1700s as a meeting point of the emerging bourgeoisie, are the symbol the vibrant cultural life of the city By now there are very few places, where you can still experience the authentic, highly evocative...

Heart, pride and technical superiority: this is the winning recipe of the maroon coloured Letná team. The analysis of the 2013-2014 season in La Liga, which saw the complete domination the team from the capital Second place in some cases can be a failure,...

The tumultuous life of Martha Dodd, the charming spy that deceived the Gestapo and the FBI It would fit in very nicely within a story by John Le Carrè, the English master of spy stories, the song writer of MI5 exploits, the famous British...

Unemployment The unemployment level slightly improved in April. The active population unemployment was at 6.5%, or 7.9% overall. Preliminary data for May indicate an improvement too, albeit marginal. The figures are still quite high, though much lower than the Eurozone. When looking at the...

A vivid memory of communism, the typical prefabricated apartment blocks, continue to be in vogue, but for many Czechs they represent a choice that is dictated by need Accessible from an economic point of view and well-connected to the public transport system, the paneláky...

On June 28 will be the centenary of the assassination of Franz Ferdinand. The links with history and literature, a duchess and a good soldier, strongly intertwined with the Czech nation Meanwhile, in the geographical region which opposed the former empire, the Czech Republic...

Czechia or Czech Republic? The diatribe of the designation of the Country still remains a problem to be solved During a visit to Israel in October 2013, Czech President Miloš Zeman declared that he preferred the expression Czechia to that of Czech Republic. In...

The Sienese Pietro Andrea Mattioli, the scientist who devoted his entire life to the study of plants and who published in the sixteenth century in Prague an immortal work: the Herbarium Since ancient times, man has established an unbreakable bond with the vegetable kingdom....

Apartment property is of a specific nature, because an apartment is not essentially an autonomous item and is always part of a larger entity – the building in which it is located. The legal system has consider the fact that a building is made...

The ancient town, at the foot of the Ore Mountains, it is located on a coal seam and risks being sacrificed for energetic needs Hunger for coal from the nearby thermoelectric power stations may soon cause the removal of a town in north-western Bohemia...