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 The Czechs are scandalized: “Keep your venom”, the Poles reply with “keep your lethal alcohol.” But the criticism does not hit the mark: imports from Poland continue to grow. For almost a year and a half, Polish food – much sought after by Czech...

Perhaps the first thing that comes to mind when observing the Crystal Globe, the top prize of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, an elegant brass statue of a female figure with an Art Déco touch, is the resemblance in design to the Oscar....

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The Italian conductor, by now an adopted Bohemian, has paid tribute to the two great European composers in Prague and Zlín on the occasion of the bicentenary of their birth The music played to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of two European...

Photo: © Becherovka.com This is the story of a well-kept secret. A recipe that was scribbled on a piece of paper more than two centuries ago in the “U tří skřivanů Herbalist shop”, or “at the Three Larks’”, located in the historical center of Karlovy Vary....

Who knows if the Havel brothers Miloš and Václav would ever have imagined that eighty years and approximately 2500 films after the construction of their film studios, they would still be considered to be European Hollywood. The original aim of the two brothers was...

The fact that Prague has always been a city linked with magic and esotericism is well known. However, many may be surprised to discover that, despite the fame of places such as Malá Strana, (with its thousand legends from the Castle of Charles IV...

The Czech Republic has a feather in its cap with its health system: it has the best hospital in Europe, in a position to face any type of epidemic or terrorist attack carried out by means of bacteriological weapons, such as Sars or anthrax....

We know that it is the same the world over. Thus, after the photovoltaic boom all over Europe, including the Czech Republic, the first skeletons in the closet are beginning to emerge and early supporters have cooled their enthusiasm for a sector, which despite...

Priest, professor, writer and absorbed in the political situation of his own time, Halík is the best known intellectual Catholic in Czech Republic The recent Italian translation of the book “Vicino ai lontani. La pazienza della fede nel dialogo con l’ateismo”, gives us the...