Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Mon, 27 Jul 2026 17:49:55 +0200https://english.radio.cz/prague-10-district-set-buy-karel-capeks-villa-8542769© 2026 Radio Prague International When one half of the Čapek brothers villa was put up for sale by the relatives of Karel Čapek’s wife on May, some were worried that the famous writer’s residence, where many important works were written, would be sold to a private owner and closed off to the public for good. The Prague 10 district council put the concerns to rest on Monday when it voted to purchase the villa for 44 million crowns. The owner, Karel Scheinpflug, was willing to lower the original asking price of 55 million, in order to make the residence a public space. Radio Prague spoke earlier to Jan Charvát from the Prague 10 town hall and asked about the plans for the villa. encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/capkova_vila_0.jpg?timestamp=1591153795 https://english.radio.cz/prague-10-district-set-buy-karel-capeks-villa-8542769 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9