Infinite Dance is the fifth and most fully realised LP yet from the Prague guitar-based group Please the Trees. The new record, which was part recorded in San Francisco, features no less a guest than...
Great Synagogue in Pilsen celebrates 125th anniversary
The Great Synagogue in the West Bohemian city of Pilsen is not only the biggest synagogue in the Czech Republic, but also the third biggest in the world, after the temples in Jerusalem and Budapest....
Socialist realism in architecture
The so-called proletarian palaces from the early 1950s, looked grand from the outside, even if in fact they concealed rather small flats within. The municipality of Poruba became the site of largescale construction,...
Ondřej Matějka –“The Sudetenland was an extraordinary example of the making of a totalitarian society”
With the 80th anniversary of the Munich agreement coming this Sunday on 30. September, Tom McEnchroe focused on the Czech side of Munich. Talking to the deputy director of the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian...
On September 28th Czechs celebrate St. Wenceslas Day
September 28th is a public holiday in the Czech Republic. It is the feast day of St. Wenceslas, the patron saint of Bohemia, and commemorates his death in 935. ...
Senate chairman hands out medals of merit
Twenty-one leading personalities from the field of science, culture, sport and public life were awarded the Silver Commemorative Medal of the Senate by the chairman of the upper chamber, Milan Štěch, on Thursday evening on the...
St. Wenceslas Day to kick off month of centenary celebrations
St. Wenceslas Day or the Day of Czech Statehood, on September 28th, will kick off a month of nation-wide celebrations marking the centenary of the birth of Czechoslovakia. Prague’s famous astronomical clock on Old Town...
Daily news summary 27.9.2018
Pork tests,Lidové noviny scandal,OKD making healthy profit
Czech industrialists mapping out opportunities in UAE
As the United Arab Emirates continue to lower their country’s economic dependency on oil, new opportunities are on the rise. Czech companies, for whom the UAE are the biggest trading partner in the Persian Gulf,...
Weather forecast
Friday should be sunny to partly cloudy with day temperatures between 18 and 22 degrees Celsius.