Art and culture

The first time I met Václav Havel we talked about the Charta 77 group, founded in Czech Republic by intellectuals who pursued a new socio-political path beyond the ideological limits of the previous era. They promoted new ideas by rejecting the dogmas of Marxism...

Maybe the great season of the Italian cinema is no longer existing and faces, names, protagonists who have helped in changing the evolution of the cinema world-wide belong now to the history of cinema. Yet, this year, the 44th edition of the Festival of...

In The Storm of November Hrabal tells, in deeply felt tones, about a meeting occurred years ago in Karlovy Vary during the days of the Festival. The protagonists being: the Czech writer on one hand, an icon of the Czech Literature, and Bernardo Bertolucci...

Miloslav Hirsch, director of the Czech cultural Institute in Rome, speaks about his experience in Italy and offers some interesting anticipations on the program of the following months. Dr Hirsch when was the Rome Institute in Costabella street, inaugurated? On 14th April, 2005. It...

With “Gottland”, writer Marius Szczygiel compiles a primer of Czech culture” The first one was Ripellino. A legendary name for all the fans (not only Italian) of Prague and its surroundings. Yes, because the writer from Palermo Angelo Maria Ripellino, with his “Magic Prague”...

A trip with manifold meanings the one programmed by Benedict XVI from 26th to 28th September in Czech Republic. To welcome Him is one of the country in the world where atheism is more spread, and one among the few in Europe that has...

Cardinal Miloslav Vlk, Archbishop of Prague, on the eve of the visit by Pope Benedict XVI, speaks to the readers of Progetto Repubblica Ceca. “After 1989, Czech society should have granted more space to the values of the spirit and not only indulge in...

The Catholic Church in Czech Republic counts a community of 3,5 millions baptised people (about 3,35 belonging to the Roman rite and 177,700 to the Byzantine rite). In general, Catholicism is the most spread in rural areas, especially in Moravia. Czech Republic is divided...

The dispute between State and Church over the property of the Cathedral goes on. The claims are rooted in history. The Constitutional Court is now to rule. Like Robert Stevenson said, “mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral”. The...

The president of the Czech Republic, Vaklav Klaus, is once more at the centre of a heated debate. The opportunity, this time, was afforded by his latest book “Blue planet, not green”, which has now also been published in Italian and presented by Klaus...