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L’anno del gallo

It is 2005 and in China is the year of the rooster, the zodiac sign of Tereza Boučková, author and protagonist. According to Chinese astrology, when the year of your zodiac sign occurs, not so easy months will follow. For the writer it is...

News economy – December 2020

36 billion euros from the EU are coming to the Czech Republic The Czech Republic from the next multi-year budget of the European Union will have the chance to receive up to 36 billion euros (about 960 billion crowns). This was reported by the...

(Italiano) Mattoni Karlovy Vary Half Marathon

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100 Years Ago The introduction of the Czechoslovakian Crown

Following the birth of Czechoslovakia as an independent state, the citizens requested the introduction of a national currency. For this purpose, the creation of a bureaucratic and technical apparatus was necessary and, therefore, on April 10, 1919, a reform took place and decreed the birth of the new “koruna” having an equal...

(Italiano) CONFERENZA STAMPA POST-HALF MARATHON

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Karel Reisz, an Anglo-Czech gentleman

The exceptional life of Ostrava-born director, who emigrated to England in the early days of the Holocaust, before becoming one of the founders of English Free cinema, then a symbol of American cinema of the 70s and 80s A master of international stature, who...

Italians in Prague, the new emigration

Young people, graduates and employees working for large international companies in Prague and almost always escaping from unemployed in Italy. This is the most frequent portrayal of our fellow-countrymen – who in their hundreds, have settled in recent years in the Golden City Vincenzo,...

Czech anniversaries

80 years ago The founding of the Barrandov film Studios. This year the famous film production studios of Barrandov celebrated eighty years since their foundation in 1931 thanks to the Havel brothers. Since then, the studios have gradually gained worldwide fame and they now...

Grand Restaurant without Italy in the forefront. Why?

At the end of November, Czech Republic newspapers released the news – not without emphasis – of the publication of Pavel Maurer’s Grand Restaurant, a yearly release, well into its 16th edition and considered the most authoritative review on top quality restaurants in this...

“Czech Republic Casinos”

There is serious concern in Prague and around the Country for the spreading of gambling premises. In addition to the big casinos, there is a proliferation of the so called “herna bars”, strange, dark places with sparkling slot machines and video poker. One of...