Current Affairs

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...

Four years after the demolition of the Hotel Praha, the Transgas complex on Vinohradská in Prague, brings to the fore the theme of safeguarding this architectural heritage in the Czech Republic More than sixty years have passed since Alison and Peter Smithson’s tranchant proposals...

Miloš Zeman loves political tussles. But fomenting prejudices and superficiality towards citizens of Roma origin has heavy repercussions on the social fabric of the country. At a time when an ethnic minority is demonized to such an extent, discrimination becomes inevitable. When the head...

80 years ago Czechoslovakia was declaring full mobilization The Nazi threat on the country’s borders led to full mobilization of Czechoslovakia on September 23, 1938. Edvard Beneš was the one to proclaim it. A new government was installed, the one of general Jan Syrový....

Born in Friuli to a father of Czech origin, in a decade he visited many unknown lands in Europe In the second half of the thirteenth century, in the Friulian town from which he took his name, Odoric of Pordenone was born, a Czech-born...

80 years ago The resignations of Edvard Beneš Edvard Beneš was one of the most distinguished men in the country and was a courageous defender of the democratic ideals of the first Czechoslovakian president, Tomáš G. Masaryk, whom he served as Foreign Minister from...

John Madden, Prague and the story of a Mitteleuropean football revolution In 1905, when John Madden suddenly reappeared after having disappeared without a trace for almost ten years, everyone wondered what good wind had carried this Scottish gentleman with a musketeer’s moustache to Prague....

90 years ago The tragedy of Na Poříčí in Prague Following the collapse of the Jakesch department store in Prague on October 9, 1928, forty-six people died and other twenty-three were injured. The building collapsed all of the sudden shortly after 3 PM, and...