Art and culture

Under the auspices of Dante Alighieri, two special events pay tribute to the great Italian Slavist, prince of Bohemistics, on the centenary of his birth An October in honor of Ripellino The first event is titled “Living… and not getting tired of loving: a...

A journey through Renaissance and Baroque fountains led by Michaela Krčmová Discovering the Fountains of Rome Prague, September 11, 2023 The Italian publishing scene has recently been enriched with a new title, “Fontane di Roma”. A Walk to Discover Renaissance and Baroque Fountains” by...

We meet Gianni Baylo, a pioneer of Italian entrepreneurship in the Czech Republic, who tells us the secrets and legends of a street with hidden charms Discovering Seminářská and its Black Star by Sabrina Salomoni On the route between Charles Bridge and Old Town...

After last year’s success, great expectations are high for the fourth edition of the Global Champions Prague Playoffs, an event that will once again make the Czech capital the centre of world equestrianism in mid-November. Olympic winners and world champions, riding the best horses...

It will be a spectacular musical event and will take place in Prague on 19 December 2022 in the O2 Arena. The concert programme was curated by Maestro Ennio Morricone himself, who began working on the project in 2019, anticipating that in the future...

  In June 1967, shortly after Solženicyn’s open letter on censorship in the USSR, the 4th Congress of the Writers’ Union was held in Czechoslovakia. Opening the proceedings, with a speech of clear and calm audacity, was Milan Kundera, then already a successful author....

The festival is considered the largest of its kind in Central and Eastern Europe. This year will be the 26th edition and will include the latest auteur documentaries, thematic retrospectives and examples of experimental cinema. The audience will be able to see the largest...

A modern gastronomy workshop has been set up on the IIC premises   Among the various initiatives and numerous events underway and planned for the celebrations marking the 100th anniversary of its founding, the Italian Cultural Institute of Prague has set up a workshop/kitchen...

“An extraordinary talent with a marvellous innate musicality”: that is how the legendary Rosalyn Tureck described pianist Christian Leotta, while the great Karl Ulrich Schnabel wrote of him “his understanding of classical and romantic composers is perfect.” Christian Leotta is considered one of the...

  There are many things in the world particularly suitable for biting, for example mothers’ ears, people’s fingers, shoelaces, carpets, telephone handsets, clothes pegs, but most of all the tip of a nose, which little Dášeňka is crazy about! And then off she goes!...