Ruth Fraňková

Czechia has the third lowest share of university graduates in the European Union, after Italy and Romania, according to a recent study published by the OECD. 

The village of Ostrožská Lhota in the Zlín region has been named “Village of the Year” for 2023.

Max Švabinský, one of the most important Czech painters of the last century.

This coming Saturday, Prague’s Olšany Cemetery will be hosting a somewhat unusual one-day music festival called Mezi hroby or Between the Graves. 

The case of Leopold Hilsner, a Jewish vagrant convicted in 1899 for the ritual murder of a Christian girl, may be on the path to re-examination.

Vašo Patejdl, who recently passed away at the age of 68, was considered to be one Czechoslovakia’s biggest hit-makers. 

The Venus of Petřkovice, a statuette from the late Stone Age period believed to be 23,000 years old and valued at EUR 50 million.

After dropping for three consecutive years, the number of suicides in Czechia increased in 2022. 

After years of legal disputes, the City of Prague and the descendants of painter Alfons Mucha have finally reached agreement over ownership rights to the Slav Epic. 

Jan Hocek is an enthusiastic traveller, tourist guide and columnist. In 2020, he created a network of long-distance tourist and pilgrimage routes called Via Czechia.