Culture
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Prague's Palace Gardens
If you are looking for a place to relax on a warm summer's day then there is no better place than the Palace Gardens located on the southern slopes of Prague Castle. With…
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Tourist requests lead to symbolic Trabant on legs being moved forward in German Embassy garden
It took half a dozen men around half an hour to pull a large sculpture around 15 metres forward in the garden of the German Embassy in Prague's Mala Strana on Wednesday…
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Controversial exhibition of human bodies meets with opposition in Prague
For the last three years, "BODIES...The Exhibition" has been travelling around the globe giving over 16 million people the rare experience of seeing what they look like on…
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Czech Catholic Church celebrates 75 years since consecration of landmark Vinohrady church
The Church of the Most Sacred Heart of Our Lord is a dominant building in Prague's Vinohrady district. Designed by Slovene architect Josip Plecnik, it is one of the more…
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Wenceslaus Hollar - The Czech who drew London
It is quite possible that you will not have heard of the great 17th century artist Vaclav Hollar, or Wenceslaus Hollar as he is known internationally. But it is very…
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Exhibition follows Antonin Dvorak's footsteps through Prague
Admirers of the music of Czech composer Antonin Dvorak remembered the great master this week, on May 1st, which marked 103 years since his death here in Prague. A new…
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Czech Centres' new director on future goals
There are currently 22 centres around the world where visitors can learn about the Czech Republic's history, economy, and culture. These Czech Centres are funded by the…
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Czech film legend Svatopluk Benes dies at age 89
Svatopluk Benes, one of the country's leading actors in the interwar years of the First Republic, has died at the age of 89. He was one of the last remaining legends of…
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Czech-Slovak composer Juraj Filas to premiere latest work
In this week's Arts, we speak to one of the Czech Republic's most important contemporary classical composers, Juraj Filas. Citing Verdi, Beethoven and Mahler among his…
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Encore: The Stamic Quartet plays music by composers who perished in the Holocaust
Today we devote the whole of Encore to one disk. It is entitled 'Czech String Quartet Discoveries' and was issued privately by the celebrated Stamic Quartet - making it…
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Devil's Bible returns home but only for few months
The Codex Gigas, also known as the Devil's Bible, is the biggest book in the world. Made at the start of the 13th century in a Bohemian monastery, it was one of the…
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"Come with me to Prague" - Kurt Vonnegut and the Czech underground
The literary world is still mourning the death of the American writer Kurt Vonnegut Jr., who passed away last week at the age of 84. But few of Vonnegut's fans - even here…
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