Prague’s alfresco food hub Manifesto has set up their unique glamping experience in the heart of the city to reignite the warmth and mood that they designed last autumn. Manifesto Florenc is transformed to house heated tents and fire pits in order to ensure that visitors stay warm while they enjoy the signature and brand new menus and treats that the market has to offer. The Soot bar crafted season-specific homemade hot drinks, including mugs of mulled wine and hot spiced sangria, to keep guests warm inside and out during the coming season. Glamping at Manifesto is free but those that hope to secure a tent early can make reservations online via the Manifesto website. Stay Warm Outside Visitors that wish to experience glamping at Manifesto have the opportunity to spend their time outside by a fire pit or stay warm in the comfort of the heated and cozy tents. The fire pits are surrounded by comfortable chairs with fur and blankets and equipped with small tables suitable for holding drinks or food that guests may want to enjoy. The heated tents come complete with closable screen entryways to keep the cold out and large wooden tables for guests to...
The Czech economy will grow by 3.8 percent this year and speed up to 4.5 percent next year, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in its autumn outlook. It thus worsened its estimate from the spring forecast, when it expected the Czech gross domestic product (GDP) to increase to 4.2 percent this year. The Monetary Fund sees next year more optimistically in the case of both the Czech Republic and Slovakia. In the spring, it predicted the Czech Republic to grow by 4.3 percent and Slovakia by 4.4 percent. Now, in the case of Slovakia, it is expecting an economic increase of 5.2 percent next year. In its forecast at the end of August, the Czech Ministry of Finance improved its estimate of economic development for this year and 2022. The economy is expected to grow by 3.2 percent this year and by 4.2 percent next year. In its forecast from early August, the Czech National Bank expects economic growth of 3.5 percent and next year of 4.1 percent.
Havel’s corner, unveiled in Brussels on Tuesday, should be reminiscent of the legacy of the former Czech president and writer Václav Havel and at the same time entice people to sit and talk. Two chairs and a round table, through which a tree grows, stand in the park in sight of the European Parliament. According to the Czech Ambassador to Belgium, Pavel Klucký, the space can serve, for example, as a meeting point for citizens and politicians. “We want it to become a real place where various ideas, often controversial, are expressed,” Klucký told reporters, according to whom the space, despite its small size, could become the Brussels form of London’s Hyde Park. Since the place is on the road leading to the meeting place of seven hundred politicians, it could serve the purpose well. The Czech Embassy in Brussels plans to revitalize the site by organizing some events, for example in connection with the upcoming Czech Presidency of the European Union. Similar monument stands in Prague since 2014 The monument, designed by Havel’s presidential architect Bořek Šípek, was created based on cooperation between Prague and Brussels’ City Halls. It is almost identical to the two chairs and table which since 2014...
If your day doesn’t start until you’re up to speed on the latest headlines, then let us introduce you to our new morning fix. CZECH REPUBLIC President Milos Zeman will convoke the session of the new Chamber of Deputies for November 8 and then outgoing Chamber chairman Radek Vondracek will call its constituent meeting for the same day. Vondracek said he was informed about the president’s health condition, but could just generally state it was improving. The Pirates group in the Chamber of Deputies will continue to be headed by Jakub Michalek, with Olga Richterova, the party’s deputy chairwoman, as his deputy. After the weekend general election, the Pirates deputy group was dwarfed from 22 to four lawmakers. 1,534 new cases of Covid-19 were recorded in the Czech Republic on Thursday, around 550 more than the same day last week. The number of people in hospitals with the virus rose to 448, with 80 of those patients in critical condition. WORLD India is set to reopen its borders to overseas travellers as it relaxes Covid-related restrictions amid a drop in daily infections. Starting Friday, the country will grant tourist visas to travellers arriving on chartered flights. The facility will be...
By 2025, there are plans for 3,000 charging points for electric cars to be created in the Czech Republic. According to the National Action Plan, net mobility also expects up to 500,000 fully electric vehicles to run in the country by 2030. The Deputy Minister of Industry, Eduard Muřický, said that the automotive industry is the basic pillar of industry and the economy in the Czech Republic, accounting for about one tenth of GDP and 20 percent of exports. “By 2030, 35,000 charging points should also be generated, especially fast ones,” he added. The new charging port plans follow from the Memorandum on Cooperation in the Development of Electromobility in the Czech Republic, signed by representatives of the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Industry and Trade, infrastructure managers, ČEZ and Škoda Auto. According to Škoda Auto, the charging stations are to be set up at railway stations and along the main roads and powered by carbon-neutral electricity from ČEZ to significantly accelerate the transition to electromobility. Among other things, decisions will be made based on data on the busiest road routes. The country is working on decarbonization and one of the possible ways to do this, and to support...
After last year’s break, Signal will light up and revive Prague’s spaces in a big way. A total of 4 routes, 15 installations in public space, 6 installations in augmented reality, and a rich accompanying program. The absolute novelty is a mobile app working with augmented reality, which is dedicated to one entire route in Karlín called Signal AR. It will complement the popular Karlín and Old Town routes and the new Holešovice route. The ninth edition of the digital and creative culture festival is all about sustainability and is called Plan C – ecology, sustainability and above all adaptability. The pandemic got us thinking: “How do we create a festival that can be there with us in times of need?” In collaboration with digital agency BRAINZ IMMERSIVE, bicepsdigital and four Czech artists – painter, sculptor and writer Jan Kaláb, futuristic visual concept artist AOKU, visual artist Jan Hladil and visual designer Longiy, organizers developed the Signal AR project. The Karlín route is accompanied by the virtual exhibition Signal AR. Six works in augmented reality that you can view from 8:00 to 19:00. You need to download the new Signal Festival app, now available on the Apple Store and Google Play. The application also offers...
The Ministry of Health will propose to the government to shorten the validity of antigen and PCR tests. Prime Minister Babiš said that the validity of PCR should be reduced from seven to three days and the antigen test from 72 to 24 hours. The Ministry of Health will present a specific proposal at a press conference on Friday. The changes come in response to a recent marked rise in Covid infection numbers. Chief Hygienist Pavla Svrčinová said that “the Czech Republic should reach a comparable level of rules of neighboring states”. “Vaccination is stagnating, we have not yet vaccinated even 60 percent of the population,” said Svrčinová on Czech Television. “We have thought of different strategies to motivate citizens to come to the first two doses of vaccination and to come to the third dose, where a relatively small percentage of people who have been invited to revaccinate have arrived so far,” Svrčinová said. As part of the strategy, mobile vaccination teams should be sent to places with lower vaccination coverage. According to Babiš, vaccination is a crucial factor in managing the pandemic and expects the same strategy from the next government. “There should be fewer paid tests per...
Temperatures fall, the leaves change their colors and life in Prague gets a little slower. If you are wondering how to spend Autumn in a true Czech manner or have no idea what there is to do in the city when the leaves start falling, you’ve come to the right place. 1. Go on Autumn Foliage Walks The leaves changing, the wind making them rustle on the floor… Autumn in Prague makes for the perfect hiking location. Especially beautiful is the Sazava Pacific, about 40 minutes away from Prague. If you’re up to go out a littler further, you might want to go and explore Hrubá Skála and Valečov Castle ruins in the Northeast of Prague. This daylong hike across field, through forests and up to the ‘Skaly’ (rock formations) are just breathtaking – even more so with Autumn Foliage. Just as pretty – though more demanding – is a hike up to Czech Republic’s volcanoes: Milešovka and Lovoš. Want to stay in the city and yet not miss out on the Autumn Foliage walks? Prague has lots of parks and forests to walk in and marvel at nature’s Autumn beauty! For example in Divoká Šárka, Obora Hvězda, Motol & Prokopske Udoli. 2. Taste St. Martin´s...
Czech President Milos Zeman will meet with the leader of the opposition coalition Together, Petr Fiala, at his request at a time to be determined later, the president’s spokesman said on Twitter on Wednesday. Zeman was taken to hospital and placed in an intensive care unit on Sunday, a day after Together and another coalition group defeated Prime Minister Andrej Babis’s ruling ANO party and its allies in a parliamentary election and pledged to form a cabinet. Zeman, an ally of Babis, has not yet said who he would tap to try to form a government talks first. Election in numbers With 27.8% the SPOLU (Togеther) coalition, consisting of the Civic Democratic Party (ODS), Christian Democrats (KDU-ČSL), and Liberal Democratic Party (TOP 09), received the most votes; the next largest vote share — 27.1% — went to Babiš’s movement ANO (Yes), which received 29.6% in 2017; next came the coalition of the Pirati (Pirate party) and STAN (The Mayors and Independents) at 15.6%; SPD Movement (Freedom and Direct Democracy, a right-wing Eurosceptical party) at 9.6% (10.6% in 2017). The parties that were unable to enter the Chamber of Deputies were the ČSSD (social democrats), which got 4.7% of votes (7.3%...
If your day doesn’t start until you’re up to speed on the latest headlines, then let us introduce you to our new morning fix. CZECH REPUBLIC The coalitions Together and Pirates/STAN want to conduct talks on the Czech government so that they might sign their coalition pact by November 8, the leader of the Civic Democratic Party (ODS), Petr Fiala, told journalists. ODS, the Christian Democrats (KDU-CSL) and TOP 09, and the Pirates, Independents and Mayors (STAN), had their first meeting this morning. The Czech Republic and France are preparing an alliance of European Union member states in nuclear energy. Štěpánka Filipová, a spokeswoman for the Czech Ministry of Industry and Trade, announced the alliance on Monday. More than half of women in the Czech Republic have experienced some form of sexual harassment or violence, according to a survey for the non-profit group proFem conducted by MindBridge Consulting. WORLD Several people have been killed and others injured in Norway after a man used a bow and arrow to attack them. Police first received word of an attack in the town of Kongsberg, south-west of the capital Oslo, at around 18:13. Chief Oeyvind Aas said a suspect had been caught and...
Bohemia Energy, one of the biggest electricity and gas suppliers in the Czech Republic, halted operations on Wednesday to become the largest group in the country to buckle under a Europe-wide jump in energy costs. Benchmark European gas prices have soared this year because of factors such as low stocks, infrastructure outages and high demand in Asia, lifting power prices to record highs. The privately held Czech business, which had about 900,000 customers, said clients would be served by suppliers of last resort, including the country’s biggest electricity producer CEZ . The situation echoes that in Britain, where soaring wholesale energy prices have led some suppliers to collapse, with nine going bust in September alone. Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis said the government would look at how it could minimise the impact on customers, CTK news agency reported. “With regret, we have to announce that the Bohemia Energy Group is, with immediate effect, ending supplies of electricity and gas to the Czech energy market,” the company said on its website on Wednesday. “We were forced into this drastic step by the continued extreme growth of power prices in the wholesale market, where the price of both supplied commodities (electricity and...
Prague’s LÁHVE wine shop recently revealed the second step in its month-long promotional event. Until October 16, customers can indulge in the “Try Before You Buy” sale, in which visitors can taste wines for free and purchase the ones they like with a 30 percent discount. Six Italian wines are participating in this week’s promotion; once in the store, customers can peruse the specific brands involved, as they will be marked with a corresponding red sticker. Thanks to LÁHVE’s system of instant discounts, clients will also receive an added benefit with the purchase of other wines during the promotion, including brands from Italy, France, Czech Republic, Germany, and Austria. ‘Corvezzo Pinot Grigio Delle Venezie A refreshing straw-yellow fruity wine with golden highlights. The bouquet is intense and balanced with notes of pineapple, peach and white flowers in the background. Type: white, dry To pair with: baked fish, seafood, risotto with chanterelles Price: 239 CZK / 169 CZK ‘Arcadia Est! Est!! Est!!! Di Montefiascone Light yellow fruity wine with a very delicate aroma. It is intense in the mouth, with a pleasant dry taste and a slightly bitter aftertaste. Type: white, dry To pair with: aperitif, snacks, seafood...
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