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Czech speleologists helping to harness tourist potential of breath-taking caves in Georgia
Georgia has many natural wonders and caves are one of the country’s as yet largely undiscovered attractions. The Georgian authorities are keen to make these karst areas…
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Predecessor of US dollar minted 500 years ago in Jáchymov
This week marks exactly 500 years since the minting of the first Joachimsthaler coins, the predecessors of the US dollar. The first thalers or tolars, as they were…
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SEFO: Olomouc’s long-awaited post-war Central European art museum
Plans to build a futuristic museum in Olomouc showcasing some 200,000 post-war artworks from across Central Europe have been on hold for over a decade, plagued by land…
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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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