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From December 10 to March 20 Alfons Mucha and the Art Nouveau atmospheres The Royal Palace of Milan will host the “Alfons Mucha and the Art Nouveau atmospheres” exhibition. It will consist of 220 works, decorative panels of the Bohemian painter, but also ceramics,...

Jan Letzel, the Bohemian architect, in love with Japan, who in 1915 designed the building that became a symbol of nuclear tragedy. Built in Viennese style, the building withstood the atomic blast, because at the time, it was one of the few to have...

November the 28th Christmas in Prague Tradition, atmosphere created by lights, sounds and smells, the Christmas markets in Old Town Square in Prague are among the most popular in Europe. Each day the red-roofed stalls place decorations, handicrafts and food products on offer. If...

Produced for the first time around a century and a half ago, it became famous around the world, but after the Second World War, the specialty became almost impossible to find here at home. Today, the authentic Bohemian recipe is enhanced in Italy by...

400 years ago The architect Carlo Lurago was born Many of the architectural wonders of the Prague Baroque, and other styles, bear the signatures of famous Italian artists. One of these is certainly the plasterer and architect from Lombardy Carlo Lurago who was active...

From the 2nd to the 11th of December MittelCinemaFest in Prague and Brno On December 2, the 13th edition of the Central European Festival of Italian cinema will start in Lucerna cinema in Prague. For the first time this year, the festival will then...

On the 5th and 6th of December Commemoration of Slavkov In Slavkov, a town in southern Moravia better known as Austerlitz, annually takes place the main commemoration event in Central Europe of the battle in which Napoleon defeated the Austrians and Russians. 210 years...

December 7th A plaque for Santini The architect Jan Blažej Santini Aichel, inventor of Gothic-Baroque style, will be commemorated in Prague by a plaque. Commissioned by the Putování za Santinim association, which promotes the figure of the ingenious creator of Italian origin, will be...

We meet with Josef Kašpar, dean of foreign correspondents in Rome “It was the spring of 1970, a delightful Roman Spring. A dry letter arrived, written on greyish paper, a few concise lines. It stated that “… the Czechoslovakian people have already spent enough...

Twenty-five years ago the Velvet Revolution handed Czechoslovakians their first free elections since 1946. Today, voting seems of less and less interest The Czech voters in the last European elections totalled a one and a half million. The votes to elect the winner of...