Poet and novelist Marek Šindelka, a leading author of the generation which came of age after the Velvet Revolution, on his best-known works: Aberrant and Material Fatigue.
The Museum of Glass and Jewelry in Jablonec nad Nisou traces the history of Bohemian glass making over seven centuries.
The west Bohemian town of Pilsen is known around the world for its beer, but it is also the cradle of Czech puppetry.
The Brewery Museum in Pilsen celebrates the birth of the country's most famous export article.
In the Škoda Museum in Mladá Boleslav, just outside Prague, the car maker puts its rich history on display.
Příbram’s Mining Museum showcases the history of mining in the Czech lands from the days of the Celts up until the Cold War.
Kateřina Tučková’s Gerta centres on Gerta Schnirch, a young member of Brno’s German community who experiences extreme hardships in the immediate aftermath of the war.
Novelist, essayist and playwright Jiří Kratochvil is one of the most respected Czech contemporary writers.
Třeboň is a picturesque South Bohemia town with spa facilities that specialise in in the treatment of musculoskeletal disorders and rheumatic diseases.
Rozvadov is a stone’s throw from the German border. The old customhouse is home to the Iron Curtain Museum, packed with unique artefacts in a once notorious space.
Luhačovice takes great pride in its renowned spas and mineralized cold spring water, considered among Europe’s best and sold as a popular medicine in pharmacies nationwide.
A fifteen-minute drive north of Karlovy Vary, Jáchymov is the oldest radon spa in the world. It became a popular spa destination at the beginning of the 20th century.
Libverda, in the Liberec Region, specializes in carbon baths that promise to help guests with movement disorders and heart problems.
The town of Jeseník might not be a destination very high on the list of most tourists to Czechia, but the mountain town is a cradle of hydrotherapy.
The National Technical Museum – one of the oldest museums of its type – was founded to document technological advancement both in the Czech lands and the wider world.
“Poděbrady is for the heart” is the motto of Central Bohemia’s main spa resort, which specializes in cardiology, boasts top-class balneology and splendid architecture.
Teplice is home to historical spas that drew the likes of Beethoven and Goethe. Now it is offering treatmetnt to people with long Covid.
For many years, comics in the Czech Republic was regarded as a genre for children. To this day, most people will probably associate it with the Four-leaf Clover, a popular…
Written between 1914 and 1915, during one of Franz Kafka’s creative outbursts, The Trial revolves around the struggle of the main protagonist, Josef K., who finds himself…
The Grandmother by Božena Němcová is an iconic work in Czech literature. The novel about an idealized rural community in the early 19th century, written in the days of the…
Kafka, Čapek, Kundera and Havel, these are all world renowned names, but what about all the others? How well are Czech authors actually known abroad? Can you find a…
Eduard Bass’ The Chattertooth Eleven, a novel about a father who brought up his eleven sons as a phenomenal football team, is one of the famous Czech works of fiction. It…
The Other City by Michal Ajvaz is a fascinating ode to Prague, which explores the idea that somewhere in the city there is an entrance to another realm. This invisible…
Karel Čapek’s last major novel, War with the Newts, is considered a satirical dystopian masterpiece, both prescient and timeless, uniquely Czech and yet universal. Like…
Jaroslav Hašek’s The Good Soldier Švejk is a classic of not just Czech but world literature. Is soldier Josef Švejk employing exaggerated zeal to cunningly mock the Austro…
