Archaeologists in the Czech Republic have found a hoard of buried weapons and jewelry dating to around 1600 BC, a rare discovery that could shed more light on life in central Europe during the Bronze Age. Researchers surveying a site in the town of Budyně nad Ohří stumbled upon bronze artifacts, including eight axes and pieces of jewelry, from over 3,600 years ago. The site, 40km northwest of Prague, was first found a year ago by an archaeologist using a metal detector. A series of excavations since have unearthed eight arm rings, as many axes, two pins, and one spearhead, all dating to the Bronze Age. Researchers suspect the artifacts were part of a collection that was purposefully buried underground. While researchers are still not quite sure why the objects were hidden in that place, they have three theories. Researchers have analyzed the artifacts uncovered over the past year and are certain about their age but suspect one of the axes is much older. During the Bronze Age, which spanned from 3,300 BC to 1,200 BC, people in Europe made the shift from fashioning tools from stones to using bronze, an alloy that was made by melting and mixing tin...
On the first Saturday of August, Kramář Villa in Hradčany will be open to the public. Built between 1911 and 1914 by Karel Kramář, a politician and the future first Czechoslovak prime minister, it is considered to be one of the most imposing examples of Prague villa architecture. Since 1998, the villa, with its unique interiors and surrounding French-style gardens, has been the official residence of the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic. The villa covers over 700 square meters and offers a unique view of the Vltava River and the Prague bridges, as well as the Prime Minister’s study. Guided tours will start from the villa gate, with the first group at 9 am and the last at 4 pm. Another notable neo-Baroque building, the Straka Academy, will open its garden every Saturday from 10 am to 6 pm. Since the summer holiday season began, the garden has featured an outdoor photo exhibition marking the 20th anniversary of the Czech Republic’s accession to the European Union. The exhibition chronicles the Czech Republic’s journey to the EU from the early 1990s to the present day, highlighting the evolution of both the EU and the Czech Republic. Next week, visitors can...
Residents and visitors of Brno will soon have the chance to experience the ‘Festival of Planets‘ in Kraví hora park, next to the city planetarium. From August 5 to 11, six giant, detailed inflatable celestial body models will be displayed. These include daytime and nighttime versions of Earth, the Sun, the Moon, Mars, and a new model called the Astrosphere, which features a map of the starry sky. Admission to the festival is free. All the models are created using tens of thousands of real astronomical images, providing a realistic experience. The exhibition will be open daily from 14:00 to 23:30. However, the best time to visit is at dusk when the celestial objects are beautifully illuminated. Visitors can also enjoy various activities including educational lectures, screenings of fantastic films at the summer cinema, and other events. For a detailed schedule of events, you can visit the official festival website. Highlights include the “With animals from space” show for children, “Until the end of the universe” and “Black holes”, which are suitable for all, and a special musical show based on Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon. The exhibition is subject to favorable weather conditions, as strong gusts...
On Sunday, August 11, the Czech Republic will host the ‘Day of Jewish Sites’ (Den židovských památek 2024). During this event, both residents and visitors can access about 45 historical Jewish sites for free, many of which are typically closed to the public. A complete list of participating sites, along with their opening hours, is available on the campaign’s website. Most locations will welcome visitors from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM. Several sites will offer additional programs for visitors, including guided tours, storytelling for children, and other activities. To make it easier for visitors to navigate, the organizers have developed a mobile application that provides detailed information about each site. The Jerusalem Synagogue (Jeruzalémská synagoga), the largest synagogue in Prague, will also be part of the event. There is a smartphone app and an interactive map to help visitors. Click on the star to find the site — there is historical and other information, but it’s in Czech, so you will have to use Google Translate. Since the fall of communism, around 70 synagogues have been restored, most of them for cultural use — so the Day of Jewish Monuments only takes in a fraction of restored Jewish heritage sites in...
The National Theatre in Prague has unveiled the Divadlobraní 2024 promotion, celebrating the start of the new season with significant savings. From 23 August to 30 September, tickets for all performances will be available at a 25% discount. This discount applies to the historic National Theatre and its other venues: the National Opera, the New Stage, the Karlin Musical Theatre, and the Stavovské Theatre. The sale period runs from 19 August to 15 September. To enjoy the 25% discount, you can purchase tickets in one of two ways: Visit the National Theatre’s website, select the ‘Divadlobraní’ discount from the list in the shopping cart, and enter the code ‘divadelniurova24’ (without quotes). The system will automatically apply the discount. Provide the code ‘divadelniurova24’ at the theatre box office when purchasing tickets. Would you like us to write about your business? Find out more
The monumental, almost ten metres high, dynamic statue of the legendary Czech athlete Věra Čáslavská will be an unmissable symbol for all visitors to the Czech House in La Villette Park in Paris. The tribute to Věra Čáslavská will be on display from 26 July, when the Czech House in Paris opens. It is a symbol of the gymnast’s movements and a reference to the sporting achievements and life attitudes of Věra Čáslavská, a seven-time Olympic champion. “Věra was an amazing person. She was a great athlete, but most of all a wonderful person, with whom it was a pleasure to spend time, as she transferred her enthusiasm to everyone. She loved sport and cheered on all the athletes. That is why we want to remember her again – to our fans and to the whole world,” said Jiří Kejval, President of the Czech Olympic Committee. The statue is made of stainless steel, weighs 7.5 tonnes and reaches a height of over 9 metres. The individual parts travelled from the Czech Republic to Paris in three trucks and were built by a team of technicians on site for a week. View this post on Instagram A post shared...
The Czech Education Minister, Mikuláš Bek (STAN) proposed that all children start learning the English language from the first grade. This reform has been three years in the making and is now approaching its final stage, with both the Education Ministry leadership and coalition politicians focusing on it. The main goal of this reform is to shift from rote memorization to understanding context and the practical application of knowledge and skills. English from Kindergarten? Minister Bek has confirmed that primary school children will still be required to learn two foreign languages. He shared on social network X that English might become compulsory from the last year of kindergarten. “English compulsory from Grade 1, maybe from the last year of kindergarten,” Bek stated. “A second language compulsory from Grade 6, schools would have to offer at least one of a choice of German, French, and Spanish.” This marks a change from the original plan, which proposed only one compulsory foreign language in primary schools, with the second language being optional. Currently, schools must start teaching the first foreign language by third grade at the latest, and the second by eighth grade or earlier. Decision Process “We are clarifying our views and...
The St. Nicholas City Bell Tower stands right next to the Church of St. Nicholas in Malostranské náměstí and has played an irreplaceable role in Prague. It was from it that the loud bell that announced fires rang out into the wide surroundings. Today, it offers visitors information from ancient history and a magnificent view of the wide surroundings of old Prague. The construction of the St. Nicholas Town Bell Tower began in 1739, as did the adjacent St. Nicholas Church. Although many visitors associate the bell tower with the Baroque church next door, it never belonged to that church and has always been a town property, not a church property. It takes a while to climb the stairs. After all, there are almost 300 steps, which are variously arched, curved and high. You can rest on the individual floors where there are interesting exhibitions, such as the tower master’s apartment, which remains authentic. “When a tourist comes here, he has the whole city in the palm of his hand – there’s a view of the Petřín lookout tower on one side, a little bit of Prague Castle, but there’s also an unprecedented view of Charles Bridge and the two...
Augustine, a Luxury Collection Hotel located in Prague’s Lesser Town district recently reopened its St. Thomas Brewery Bar for public, adding one sidewalk entrance to the venue for easier navigation of its guests. The cellar housing this famous bar dating back to 1352 is now open not only for the guests yearning for extraordinary experience and pint of the dark St. Thomas lager, but also for private groups. Rentals of the St. Thomas Brewery Bar are possible based on the availability for up to 55 guests with pricing tailor-made to each event organizer’s requirements. Apart from the original beer brewed here since the 14th century, the Bar, designed as an artificial grotto with stylish cubistic furniture, offers traditional Czech dishes and is currently one of the richest historical landmarks of the Augustine Hotel Prague. In the 16th century, during the reign of the well-known emperor Rudolf II, the local brewery became an exclusive supplier of beer to the Prague Castle. The chronicles say that “when Czech kings were at the Prague Castle, they would only drink St. Thomas beer!“. Nowadays, the local award-winning Matuška micro-brewery produces both draught and bottled St. Thomas beer uniquely for Augustine Hotel. The hotel’s owners...
The 21st edition of Colours of Ostrava kicks off in the Moravian-Silesian capital on Wednesday. Colours of Ostrava is a multi-genre international music festival that has been held in the Dolní Vítkovice area since 2012. As every year, the former site of the steelworks, mines, and ironworks will come alive with a program of over 450 items on 24 open and indoor stages. Visitors can expect concerts by foreign and domestic performers and bands, discussions, theatres, workshops, and much more. The music program will welcome the opulent and extravagant show of Sam Smith, who will perform in the Czech Republic for the first time ever. The lineup also features such names from the music world scene as Tom Morello, Lenny Kravitz, Sean Paul, Zara Larsson, Gary Clark Jr., James Blake, as well as more indie and other genre-diverse music. As part of the accompanying program, visitors can look forward to theatre performances by Losers Cirque Company, Tribes, Bum Bum Comedy Club, and much more. Since 2016, the event has taken place concurrently with the international discussion forum Meltingpot. Among other awards, in 2005 and 2006, Colours won the Musical Event of the Year prize at the Anděl Awards. In 2016,...
Legendary American singer-songwriter, pop music icon, and Nobel Prize winner for literature Bob Dylan is coming to the Czech Republic again. As part of his fall tour, he will perform at the O2 Universum in Prague for three consecutive evenings on October 4th, 5th, and 6th. He will start his European tour in Prague; after that, he will head to Germany, France, Luxembourg, and the United Kingdom. Tickets for the European concerts will be on sale from July 19. In Germany, Dylan will perform in Erfurt, Berlin (three times), Nuremberg, Frankfurt (three times), Stuttgart, and Saarbrücken. These performances are part of his “Rough & Rowdy Ways Tour”, named after his last studio album from 2020. Dylan last performed in Prague in April 2019, also for three nights, with chamber-tuned concerts hosted by Prague’s Lucerna. Dylan first performed in Prague on July 16, 1994, at a packed hockey hall at the Prague Exhibition Centre, attracting ten thousand listeners. He returned in March 1995 to start his next tour with three concerts at the Congress Center. Born on May 24, 1941, Bob Dylan is one of the most influential cultural figures, whose impact has transcended the boundaries of music. Over his 60-year...
Besides hosting major music and film festivals, Czechia is set to welcome some of the big names on the music scene this summer. As always, music lovers of all genres will be heading to the Colours of Ostrava festival (17 -20 July 2024) at Dolní Vítkovice in the city of Ostrava, the industrial heartland of Czechia’s eastern region. Colours of Ostrava will feature Sam Smith, five-time Grammy winner, as well as Lenny Kravitz, who will also be playing songs from his new album Blue Electric Light. Hradec Králové, a city renowned for its culture and entertainment, will host the ladies’ favourite, Ed Sheeran. In response to the great interest shown by fans, he’ll be performing twice in Park 360 in Hradec Králové, on 27 and 28 July 2024. The rap event of the year will be a performance by hip-hop icon Travis Scott at the O2 Arena in Prague on 18 July 2024. The American star will be appearing as part of his UTOPIA – Circus Maximus Tour 2023. In Prague, visitors have a wealth of ways to spend their leisure time, from strolling through the historical centre with the iconic Charles Bridge or visiting Prague Castle to relaxing on the romantic...
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