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12/05/2022
The crown jewels of the Kingdom of Bohemia, one of Czechia’s most prized historical artefacts, are to be displayed to the public from January 17 to 21, 2023, the head of the Office of the President, Vratislav Mynář, announced on Monday. For the first time since 1955, the crown jewels will be displayed in the transept of Saint Vitus Cathedral. The skull of Saint Wenceslas, the patron saint of the Czech nation, will be displayed in the Saint Wenceslas Chapel within the cathedral.
The crown jewels are composed of the Saint Wenceslas Crown, which was originally made for Charles IV.’s coronation in the 14th century, the sceptre and the orb, which were added to the crown jewels later.
The Bohemian crown jewels are normally locked away from the public and tend to be exhibited only once every five years. The last time they were shown to the public was in January 2018, the year that marked the 100th anniversary of the founding of Czechoslovakia.
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12/05/2022
A plane flying from Poland to the UK was diverted to Prague airport on Sunday night following a report of a “possible bomb” on board the aircraft. The EasyJet flight from Kraków to Bristol landed at the Václav Havel Airport shortly before 11 p.m.
After a three-hour search by explosive experts, the airport announced that there was no dangerous object found in the Airbus.
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12/05/2022
A 1967 painting by the Czech surrealist artist Toyen called ‘Mirage’ sold for CZK 31.2 million at an auction in Prague on Sunday. It is the second most expensive painting of Czech post-war art sold at the country’s auction after 1989.
The starting prize of the painting, considered one of Toyen’s most important oils from her post-war period, was CZK 12 million. Her most expensive work sold at a domestic auction is the ‘Circus’, which was auctioned off last year for nearly CZK 80 million.
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12/04/2022
A total of 21.2 kilometres of new motorways and 14.2 kilometres of first-class roads will opened in Czechia this year, according to a survey by the company CEEC Research, citing data from the Ministry of Transport.
This is about twice less than last year, when the state opened 46.5 kilometres of new motorways and about 23 kilometres of first-class roads.
At present construction work is being carried out on 247 kilometres of motorway and first class roads. Next year, a further 40 kilometres of motorways are set to be constructed.
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12/04/2022
Sunday will be mostly cloudy with occasional drizzle or rain and day temperatures ranging between 4 and 8 degrees Celsius
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12/04/2022
Ukrainian soldiers have arrived for a planned exercise at the Libavá military area in Central Moravia, Chief of the General Staff Karel Řehka told the news website idnes on Sunday.
According to the website, the ministry did not disclose the exact number of soldiers or information on when they had arrived in the country for security reasons.
The parliament this week approved a bill that enables Ukrainian soldiers to be trained in Czechia as well as for Czech solders to train Ukrainians in other EU member states.
The training is to be carried out in five stages, planned until the end of 2023. Each exercise cycle will last four weeks and will be able to accommodate up to 800 soldiers. Its total cost is estimated at CZK 975 million.
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12/04/2022
Sales of Christmas and New Year's Eve package tours are 20 percent lower than in 2019 so far, the Czech News Agency reported on Sunday, citing the Association of Travel Agencies of the Czech Republic.
According to the association’s director Jan Papež, around 250,000 Czechs are expected to travel abroad by air at the end of the year. Most often they choose holidays by the sea.
Spokeswoman of the Čedok travel agency, Kateřina Pavlíková, told the Czech News Agency that there is increased interest in more luxurious exotic destinations for Christmas this year, such as Zanzibar, the Dominican Republic and Madagascar.
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12/04/2022
Lány chateau, the summer residence of Czech presidents, will open to the public during the upcoming two weekends, the president’s office said on Sunday.
The early Baroque chateau, located in the middle of the Křivoklát forests in Central Bohemia, was bought by the Czechoslovak state in July 1921.
Czechoslovakia’s first president Tomás Garrigue Masaryk moved there permanently after his abdication in 1935 and is buried in the local cemetery.
The chateau, which is looked after by the Prague Castle Administration, is rarely open to the public. Last time people had a chance to see it was in September 2018 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the founding of Czechoslovakia.
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12/04/2022
Over the past seven days, 2 171 Ukrainian refugees received temporary protection visas in Czechia, which is 117 fewer than the previous week.
Since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Czech state has granted a total of 465,058 of these special visas, which allow their holders to access public health insurance, education or the labour market.
The government this week approved a bill extending the Ukrainian temporary protection visas until the end of March 2024. At present they are valid until the end of March next year.
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12/03/2022
Some ten thousand people attended the annual re-enactment of the historic Battle of Austerlitz in South Moravia on Saturday afternoon.
More than 1,000 military buffs from 14 different countries staged the re-enactment of the operation in which Napoleon Bonaparte defeated the Austrian and Russian armies.
The Battle of Three Emperors took place on December 2, 1805 near the town of Slavkov, better known by its German name, Austerlitz, south of Brno. More than 20,000 men were killed in action.
The popular event, which is accompanied by craft and food fairs, was attended by French ambassador to Prague ans cadets from the French military academy Saint Cyr.
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