Good news for budget travelers! Ryanair is adding a new direct route from Prague to Venice’s Marco Polo Airport, starting in October. This marks a welcome return for the airline, which previously served the route but had a hiatus in recent years. The new route offers a convenient alternative to Ryanair’s existing service to Treviso Airport, which is located further away from Venice itself. While Wizz Air currently offers flights to Marco Polo from Prague, they’re reducing their frequency. Ryanair will operate five flights per week, from Thursday to Monday. Most departures are scheduled for the morning, similar to Wizz Air. However, a Sunday evening flight from Venice provides additional flexibility for travelers. While initial fares may not be the cheapest, with return tickets starting at around 2,600 CZK, Ryanair is known for offering competitive prices, especially as the launch date approaches. Reaching Venice from Marco Polo Airport is a breeze. Several convenient options are available: City Bus Line 15: This budget-friendly option takes you to Mestre, on the mainland, in about 25 minutes for just €10 per ticket. ATVO Buses: These buses also cost €10 and offer direct connections to Venice Island. Water Buses: For a more scenic journey,...
The Festival of Embassies is the largest international street food festival in Prague, where each country’s presentations are primarily showcased by their embassies, honorary consulates, or chambers of commerce. The event will be attended by ambassadors in person, making it a truly unique event in our country in terms of the number of participating countries. The main organizers are the Prague 6 Municipal District and the Association Farmers’ Markets, which also organize the Markets in Kulaťák. Each country’s booth will offer original traditional dishes that are characteristic of their respective cultures. Embassy staff, including the ambassadors themselves, and their families, will be actively involved in the cooking. Some embassies even invite renowned chefs to prepare their cuisines. Organizers expect 15.000 visitors. At the event, there will also be various drinks, ice creams, sweets, and desserts of choice, as well as small souvenirs and original craftsmanship available. The event will kick off again with the drummers’ band of BLABUBURO with African music, followed by Thai folk dances, and puppet performances from Brazil’s Gilberto Conti followed by Mariachi Azteca de Praga (from Mexico). Visitors can experience, among others, a performance from India, a choir from Slovenia, folk dances from Kosovo, traditional throat...
The international festival presents contemporary and traditional Roma culture during an intensive week (from 26 May to 1 June), full of music, dance, theater performances, workshops, seminars and other events. Khamoro (“Sun” in Romanes) is the most famous professional Roma festival in the world. It has been organized by Slovo 21 together with SP Saga annually since 1999. For two decades of existence, the festival has established itself as an all-cultural cultural event that attracts approximately 10,000 visitors from the Czech Republic and from abroad each year regardless of age, gender or nationality. The idea belonged to Jelena and Džemil Silajdžić, a film producer and a professor of music, natives of Sarajevo. Its main idea is to introduce Roma culture to the world and eliminate xenophobia. People come not only from the Czech Republic but also from the US, Canada, and South Africa. The program will feature many great names of Roma culture, and distinctive and inspiring personalities of international reputation. The most spectacular event of the festival will traditionally be a march of musicians in national costumes through the historical center of Prague. The festival is held with the support of the City of Prague and the Ministry of...
Presented across continents, the idea and concept of Dinner in the Sky event is to offer unforgettable fine dining experience in the sky – together with exclusive atmosphere, breathtaking view to city and cuisine from the top chefs. An aerial restaurant experience that hoists patrons above cities across the world, Dinner in the Sky has proven a popular attraction in Rome, Los Angeles, Athens, Ljubljana, and Cape Town. The event will be held in the center of Prague from September 7 until September 17. The table with 22 guests will be suspended at a height of 50 meters; a team of professionals, with a guest chef and waiting team, will serve from the center of the table. The attraction is set on Náplavka na Dvořákově nábřeží, which offers a spectacular view of Prague Castle. The guest chef of this year Ondřej Koráb is one of the most experienced chefs of the younger generation. He was in charge of the kitchen at The Grand Mark Hotel in Prague for four years. Then he worked for a year in a Michelin-starred restaurant in London, and now he has been in charge of the kitchen at the Grandhotel Pupp in Karlovy Vary for three years. “It’s a...
Yesterday, May 10, after the winter break, Delta Air Lines resumed operation of its regular connection from Prague to New York, which it will service on a daily basis until 6 October 2024. Flights to John F. Kennedy International Airport will be operated by Boeing 767-300ER aircraft for 217 passengers, with the cabin configuration of 181 seats in Economy Class and 36 seats in Business Class. Delta Air Lines has been providing its regular flights between Prague and the American metropolis regularly since 19 June 2009. The route operation was disrupted only in 2020 and 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. “I am pleased that Delta Air Lines has been offering direct connections from Prague to New York for as many as 15 years. During the period of running its operations in Prague, the American carrier already serviced 5,900 flights and transported 1,119,000 passengers. The United States is a very important market for us, which generated for us over half a million handled passengers last year, including connecting flights,” said Jiří Pos, Chairman of the Prague Airport Board of Directors. “In the first quarter of this year, we also recorded a growth of 17 percent in this segment, so we...
The Czech Republic witnessed a spectacular display of the aurora borealis on Friday evening, marking the strongest sighting since 2003. The Czech Hydrometeorological Institute confirmed the phenomenon on social media, though the exact intensity remained uncertain. The aurora, also known as the northern lights, was visible without any special equipment in areas with clear skies and a good view north. Faint glimpses were even possible from some locations on the outskirts of cities. Dozens of social media posts captured the awe-inspiring sight, with reports of sightings in Pilsen, Český Krumlov, northern Moravia, Olomouc, Brno, and Blansko, among other locations. Polární záře nad Prahou☺️😍 pic.twitter.com/tEWW56sc9L — Lukas Biba (@bibalukas) May 10, 2024 Druhá vlna silné polární záře v ČR… tohle se nedá popsat slovy. Nestíháme prakticky fotit ! pic.twitter.com/25aSBhUucv — Lukáš Ronge (@RongeLukas) May 10, 2024 Nejsilnější polární záře od roku 2003 nad Českem! To byla noc! Nádhera! Fotky od fanoušků @veda24: Josef Kalous, Ondřej Pukl, Lukáš Šandl a Eliška Nýdlová. Další stovky fotek jsou na facebookové stránce @Vedact24. pic.twitter.com/s8REzdMRFD — Daniel Stach (@DanielStach) May 11, 2024 Would you like us to write about your business? Find out more
A Czechoslovak graduation party you won’t forget. Watch the musical ‘THE REBELS’ with English subs and Some like it Czech. Step into the vibrant world of the movie ‘THE REBELS’ and discover the essence of Czech Grease amidst the backdrop of the blooming 60s. An English-friendly analog screening of this groovy love story takes place on the 15 of May at Kino Aero. Buy your tickets here. ‘The Rebels’ (2001, Filip Renč, watch the trailer) beckons audiences to immerse themselves in a world where summer sizzles, love dances in the air, and carefree 60s are about to end. Tereza and her friends Julča and Bugyna have just graduated, and are eager to try everything adult life has to offer. Three mysterious young men who suddenly appeared in their borderline hometown seem to be the perfect accomplices for this mission. Follow their thrilling journey from the nerve-racking excitement of graduation to the exhilarating rush of first love, all accompanied by the Czechoslovakian 60s singles. There are big chances that you already know the beats to the music, as some of them are covers of famous American songs such as ‘Downtown’ or ‘Sugartown’. Back in the days, the remakes were quite popular...
Czechs may be able to observe the aurora borealis, or northern lights, this weekend, due to a severe geomagnetic storm. Petr Horálek, astronomer at the Institute of Physics in Opava, said hat the natural phenomenon might be visible on both Friday and Saturday night, with chances increasing in the following days. “There’s a good possibility of capturing or even seeing auroras from mid-latitudes like the Czech Republic and Slovakia this Friday and Saturday nights,” Horálek explained. “This is due to the Sun’s active phase, which has produced ten powerful solar flares in the last 24 hours. These eruptions are expected to send plasma clouds hurtling towards Earth tonight, potentially triggering geomagnetic storms that could last through the weekend.” The celestial event comes as a result of at least four coronal mass ejections (CMEs) from the Sun, which will see large amounts of plasma and magnetic flux emitted from our closest star. Auroras witnessed from the Czech Republic are typically faint. Inexperienced observers might confuse them with light pollution or faint reddish glows. However, this weekend presents favorable conditions for observation. “The moon, which can often wash out the phenomenon with its brightness, is currently in a new phase,” Horálek noted....
Czech farmers are planning a major protest in Prague on Wednesday, May 22nd. This follows protests in February and March, when they rallied against the government and agriculture policies set by the European Union. The head of the Czech Chamber of Agriculture, Jan Doležal, said that they will keep protesting until the government listens to their main demands. However, Doležal expressed frustration with the government’s perceived lack of action, even on issues that wouldn’t require significant financial investment. He suggested the government might be hesitant to engage in dialogue but assured that farmers remain open to discussions. Doležal said the farmers are getting desperate and frustrated, and they’re worried things won’t get better. The Chamber is planning more protests in early June, possibly with farmers from other European countries. “Our goal is not to block the traffic in Prague, our goal is to present the problems in agriculture,” said Martin Pycha, the head of the Czech Agricultural Association, one of the organizers of the protest. Farmers also complain about the low prices of their products and say grain and other agriculture products coming from Ukraine and other countries harm the market. The protest will start in the morning with a...
The 87th Ice Hockey World Championship kicks off in Prague and Ostrava today, May 10, and Czechia will play one of the two opening matches. This year, Czechia is in Group A, which is played in Prague. The Czechs will challenge Austria, Canada, Denmark, Great Britain, Finland, Norway and Switzerland. After nine years, Czechia will again host the Ice Hockey World Championship, bringing 16 top national teams to the center of the action to compete for the title. The organizers are expecting a large turnout of home fans. But it is certain that the fans of foreign teams will not be missing either, whether it is Canada, the United States of America, or the Scandinavian hockey giants, Sweden and Finland. Opening ceremony on Friday 10 May at 20:00 The official start of the 2024 IIHF WM, full of ice hockey history and emotions, will take place 20 minutes before the start of the evening game between Czechia and Finland, in Ostrava before the duel between Slovakia and the United States. “The first part of the opening ceremony consists of a clip accompanied by the voice of world-respected commentator Gord Miller and deals with how ice hockey has evolved over its...
Cars are the most popular way for people to commute to work in the Czech Republic. In fact, nearly 55% of workers rely on cars to get to their jobs. This is based on the latest data available from the Czech Statistical Office. In Prague, over 30%, commute by car. The Karlovy Vary region has the highest proportion of people who drive to work. There, two-thirds of commuters get behind the wheel every day. “In areas with lower population density and limited public transportation options, a car is often the only way for employees to get to work,” says Aleš Polák, CEO of leasing company Arval. The high number of people driving to work creates problems on Czech roads. This leads to more frequent traffic jams and can also negatively impact emissions and safety, as Polák points out. “The heavy reliance on car commuting is an environmental issue in the Czech Republic. The country has one of the oldest car fleets in the EU, with an average age exceeding 16 years last year. Many of these older cars are driven in the regions where people depend on them most to get to work. This results in a higher risk of...
The Prague Metro turns 50 today! On May 9th, 1974, the first section of Line C, stretching 6.6 kilometers with 9 stations, opened its doors to the public. Today, the network boasts a tenfold increase, with 61 stations spanning the bustling Czech capital. The concept of a Prague subway dates back surprisingly far – 1898, to be exact. Ladislav Rott, a visionary engineer, presented a proposal to the city’s electricity company. Unfortunately, the idea wasn’t embraced at the time. Another proposal in 1926, by Bohumil Belada and Vladimír List, was the first to use the term “Metro”, and though it was not accepted either, it served as an impulse for moving towards a real solution of the rapidly developing transport in Prague. In the early 1960s the concept of the sub-surface tramway was finally accepted and on 9 August 1967 the building of the first station (Hlavní nádraží) started. However, in the same year, a substantial change in the concept came, as the government, under the influence of Soviet advisers, decided to build a true metro system instead of an underground tramway. Fast forward to 1966, and the groundwork finally began. Construction took nearly a decade, culminating in the 1974...
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