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Christmas gingerbread from Pardubice
Czech Christmas is unthinkable without a vast variety of cookies. Typically, Czech households start baking them at the beginning of the festive season so that they can…
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Prague will have its New Year’s fireworks show, but separate from City Hall’s official video…
Despite the practice being stopped by City Hall earlier this year, Praguers will get to see a special fireworks show during New Year’s celebrations, albeit privately…
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Advent in Prague or “Let there be (gas) light”
Prague is one of just a handful of cities in the world to still employ lamplighters – and only then during Advent, the liturgical season which begins four Sundays before…
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Christmas trees shining bright around the Czech Republic
Towns and villages around the Czech Republic are dressed up for Christmas, with centrally-placed Christmas trees, Christmas markets, Nativity scenes, thousands of…
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Prague’s State Opera to reopen after three-year renovation
The extensive renovation of Prague’s historic State Opera building has been completed. The building should re-open its door to the public on January 5, exactly 132 years…
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The Žižkov TV tower –one of Prague’s main landmarks
Standing at a height of 216 metres the Žižkov TV tower is hard to miss. Designed by architect Václav Aulický the tower, housing a transmitter and meteorological…
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Czechs mark 30th anniversary of true freedom to travel to the West
Thirty years ago today, the freedom to travel outside of the “brotherly” Socialist countries and Soviet bloc finally became a reality for ordinary Czechoslovaks, as part…
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Over 1,000 skeletons discovered during renovation of Kutná Hora “bone church”
Archaeologists carrying out research at the famous 14th century “bone church” near the Czech town of Kutná Hora have announced a unique discovery. While excavating the…
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Jan Kasl: In ‘89 people hoped for hundreds of unique new buildings in Prague
Prague has obviously changed enormously over the last 30 years. But what have been the city’s most, and least, impressive construction projects since the Velvet Revolution…
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Deer Moat at Prague Castle opens to visitors within freedom celebrations
The Deer Moat (Jelení příkop) at Prague Castle, which is currently under reconstruction, opened to the public on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Velvet…
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Prague’s revamped Lennon Wall becomes open-air gallery
Prague’s Lennon Wall has a new face and will newly serve as an open-air gallery. The famous tourist attraction, which before the Velvet Revolution served as a symbolic…
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Wine and goose on offer as Czechs start celebrating St. Martin’s Day early
On Friday people all around the Czech Republic began celebrating Saint Martin’s Day, which falls on November 11. According to a Czech proverb, it is the day which brings…
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