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Book World Prague 2024 has more to offer non-Czech readers than ever before
Book World Prague usually mostly targets a Czech audience. But this year is different – largely thanks to the Frankfurt Book Fair naming Czechia its 2026 Guest of Honour.
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The Bohemian Druid whose bust became face of Celtic art
The head of Mšecké Žehrovice is one of the best known surviving pieces of Celtic art not just in the Czech Republic, but in the whole of Europe.
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Ostrov Museum brings together traditional folk costumes from all over country
Just a few months ago, a new museum opened in the village of Ostrov, boasting the country’s biggest private collection of Czech and Moravian traditional folk costumes.
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Prague’s Faust House: home of alchemists and other peculiar residents
Prague’s Faust House, located on the southern side of Charles Square, is associated with a plethora of mysterious stories and legends.
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Czechs launch suicide prevention plan after spike during coronavirus pandemic
On average over 1,300 Czechs take their own lives each year. With signs of a spike during the coronavirus crisis, the goverment has approved a prevention plan.
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‘Eternal Hope’ festival celebrates legacy of Czech-born composers at Nazis’ ‘model camp’ in Terezín
A unique festival dedicated to Gustav Mahler and later Jewish composers interned by Nazi Germany in a north Bohemian ghetto gets underway this Sunday. Organised by the…
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New film recreates encounter between Masaryk and Karel Čapek
Little over a week before the centenary of the establishment of Czechoslovakia, a freshly released film brings the state’s founder to the big screen. Talks with T.G…