Art and culture

Nowadays, going to the cinema is often a similar experience to going to a shopping centre, with long queues for both tickets and popcorn, and large posters in all corners advertising films about to hit the screens. In other cases however, the experience can...

While tourists are engrossed by the lights and stalls, there is a revival of ancient popular superstitions in Czech homes Christmas in Prague is not only magical for its atmosphere of lights and perfumes from the various markets that have invaded the city, but...

At the beginning, it was a small world: the dark walls of a small shop, a plank as a table, fumes of glue and paint and an ordinary name: Antonín, the son of a joiner, who lived in a small village in the centre...

“Sugaman, libri elettronici” has published in digital format (even books gain from technology): “History of the Party of Moderate Progress within the Bounds of the Law”, by the great Jaroslav Hašek, translated by Sergio Corduas. The book collects the speeches made during the political...

Rather than the residence of an illustrious fellow citizen to be proud of, it seems more like a ghost house, the place of a tragedy, which bypassers usually walk past briskly with their eyes facing the ground On the streets, faces numbed by the...

A huge, very colourful wax heart was displayed in honour of Vaclav Havel, at the beginning of February in the small Prague square in front of the National theatre. It will stay there until the 10th of April. The artists behind the creation were...

“French? Too difficult. So, between Spanish and Italian, I chose Italian and I still do not know why”. A journey that began almost by chance – that made by 36 years old Jiří Špička, now associate professor of Italian language and literature at the...

“A romantic walk in the ancient Přemyslid capital” When you think of Olomouc, the loyal town, it brings to mind the Counter-Reformation period. Yes, because, of all the Habsburg towns, Olomouc was (and to some extent still is) the town that – more than...

This interesting study edited by prof. Francesco Leoncini – Professor of History of Slavic countries and Central Europe at the Ca’ Foscari University in Venice – is the result of painstaking research with a collection of contributions from academics and scholars, whose essays contain...

A model of charity and tolerance that has lasted four centuries The Italian presence on Czech Republic territory, boasts a long lasting and important tradition. Though the number of Italians present in Prague in the Middle Ages may not have been so high as...