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The story of Otakar Švec, creator of the colossal monument that terrified Prague during the severest years of the regime. A tragic sequence of events, strongly linked with the unfortunate period and with the fate of the statue The carved face of Stalin returned...

Lucio Caracciolo, director of Limes magazine: “Czechia has never became truly anti-Russian, and this ambivalence enables it, in the same time, to play a central role in relation to Brussels”. Its billionaires understood this aspect and take fully advantage of it From Kellner to...

This is still a coal-powered country. The raw material that was set as a symbol of the Industrial revolution remains fundamental in the Czech energy mix Just like the Spartans at Thermopylae, there were about three hundred environmentalists who animated the event Limity jsme...

From November 6 to March 10, 2019 The Czechoslovak Mille Miglia The National Museum of Technology has chosen to commemorate the centenary of the Republic with an exhibition dedicated to the “Czechoslovak Mille Miglia”. The race, organized by the Czechoslovak Auto club, has become...

Antonín Panenka has reached the age of seventy. His penalty kick, however, will remain immortal On the evening of June 20, 1976, for the first time ever, a prestigious international event was to be decided on penalties. At the Marakana in Belgrade, capital of...

January 21st Some Like It Short The “Some Like It Short” amateur short film festival returns to the Bio Oko cinema in Prague, in the Letná district. Next January 21st will be the second edition, open once again for anyone who wants to shoot...

January 22nd Czechoslovakia and Italy, a hundred years of history On 22 January at the Italian Institute of Culture in Prague, the journalist Sergio Tazzer presents, his book “Czechoslovakia and Italy, one hundred years of history”, published by Kellermann. Following discussion with the author...

From January 16th to February 3rd Prague is alone Stefano Baldussi, part of the Poldi Libri group, is organizing the “Prague is Alone” project in collaboration with the Municipality and the University of Padua, the Czech Center of Milan and the CRAF of Spilimbergo....

A portrait of how communists took power 70 years ago, told while walking in the capital In the middle of the tourist Prague, just below the square of the castle, on February 25, 2018 a plaque, usually neglected by the selfie sticks of the...

From December 1 to January 6, 2019 Christmas Markets Traditionally, the opening of the Christmas markets in Prague coincides with the beginning of Advent. According to tourists, the Christmas markets here have surpassed the ones in Vienna and London in beauty and atmosphere, being...