Ilya Marritz

There is an old framed photograph in my parents' house, which I have known since childhood. In the foreground, you can see the back of the head of Edvard Benes, the second…

The Villa Tugendhat, a functionalist family home designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, is the Czech Republic's only 20th century UNESCO site. The city of Brno is…

The city of Brno has relented. Brno's city council yesterday approved a plan to return the Villa Tugendhat, a UNESCO landmark, to the children of the original owners. The…

In 2002, the Prague district of Karlin was one of the worst-affected by flooding on the Vltava river. Restoration of damaged buildings continues to this day, but Prague…

Someone has damaged a valuable historical artifact on Prague's Charles Bridge. While the sculpture itself remains intact, the golden lettering surrounding the figure was…

This week the United States officially petitioned the Czech Republic for authorization to operate a radar base about 35 kilometers southwest of Prague. Today the American…

Everyone knows the basic ingredients of pizza are dough, tomato sauce, and mozzarella cheese. But a new study has found that much of the pizza being served in the Czech…

Welcome to Knezice, a village of about 500 inhabitants in central Bohemia. It's the very definition of a rural Czech community, with its baroque church, low-slung 19th…

When a Czech-American group handed over a valuable piece of Manhattan real estate to the Czech Government in the year 2001, it was expected that the building would be…

In a Prague suburb full of timeworn old villas, one house stands out like a robin's egg in a nest of straw. It is even painted blue. This is the Alfadent clinic, a private…