Zdeňka Kuchyňová

Písek, a South Bohemian town of around 30,000 inhabitants, has a well-preserved medieval centre with six churches and a partly preserved Gothic castle.

Hradec Králové, which lies on the confluence of the Labe and Orlice rivers in north-east Bohemia, is one of the oldest and historically most significant Czech cities.

The newly renovated Automatic Mills designed by the pioneering Czechoslovak architect Josef Gočár, have recently been turned into a multifunctional public space. 

As people pay their last respects to the late Karel Schwarzenberg, preparations are underway for his state funeral at Prague’s St. Vitus Cathedral.

The Prague-born architect of Italian descent is famous for his Baroque-Gothic style, including the UNESCO-listed church of St John of Nepomuk on Zelená Hora.

With its rooftop terraces and passages Lucerna palace is an iconic building, unique even for the historic centre of Prague.  

Despite the Velvet Divorce, relations between Czechia and Slovakia still remain very close. This is perhaps most evident in the Moravian Slovakia region.

GZ Media produces vinyl records around the clock in order to meet huge demand. In fact the Czech company is the world’s biggest producer of vinyl.

At a large necropolis in Mikulovice, archaeologists are currently using various scientific techniques to gain a better understanding of early Bronze Age Bohemia. 

Prague 8 has chosen the winner of a competition for a memorial to Jindřiška Nováková, the 14-year old girl whose family hid Reinhard Heydrich's assassins.