Explore Prague’s famous and not-so-well-known gardens. The aim of the event is to raise awareness and appreciation for gardens and the art of landscaping. This weekend, June 12 and 13 will take place the Open Gardens Weekend (Víkend otevřených zahrad) around the Czech Republic. It will be possible to visit about 160 gardens and parks throughout the country. Some gardens can be visited free of charge. A number of parks and gardens are organizing rich accompanying programs including guided tours, children’s activities, concerts, etc. The complex includes five gardens – Ledeburská zahrada, Malá Pálffyovská zahrada and Velká Pálffyovská zahrada, Kolowratská zahrada and Malá Fürstenberská zahrada. They were formed in the 18th century, their decoration was contributed by famous artists of the Czech Baroque period and Early classicism and a number of terraces, pavilions, orangeries and glorietas reminiscent of Italian Renaissance gardens. Tours of the Chateau and Flower Gardens (Podzámecká zahrada and Květná zahrada) will be ready in Kroměříž, the castle in Libochovice and at Vrchotovy Janovice castle you will “get to know” the last Chatelaine Sidonie Nádherná of Borutín. A complete list of open gardens can be found here.
If the elections to the Czech Chamber of Deputies took place in May, the coalition of Pirates and STAN (Mayors and Independents) would win with 26 percent of the vote ahead of the Spolu coalition (ODS, TOP 09, KDU-ČSL) with 21.5 percent. According to the election model of the Kantar CZ agency, the ANO movement of current Prime Minister Andrej Babiš would end up in a third-place with 20 percent. Together with the Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) with ten percent and the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSČM) with 5.5 percent, the Oath movement, led by the former head of the Organized Crime Unit, Robert Šlachta, would have enough vote to enter the Chamber of Deputies. Compared to the April survey, it gained an additional 2.5 percentage points. “The ANO movement and SPD movements mainly collect voters among non-voters and partly also among Pirates,” said Kantar analyst Ondřej Ryboň about the shift. As in the April survey, the governing Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD) would end up outside the lower house with three percent and only after the grouping of Tricolour, Party of Free Citizens, and the Freeholder Party of the Czech Republic, which, according to the model,...
By the end of the summer, the Prague mayor’s office will announce a tender for a construction company that will build a new bridge across the Vltava, connecting Zlíchov and Dvorce (Prague 5 and Prague 4). The contract value is CZK 972 million. The proposed Dvorecký most (Dvorecký Bridge) would fill the substantial gap between Barrandovský most (Barrandov Bridge) and Palackého most (Palacký Bridge). Seven design proposals advanced to the second round of selection, and a commission selected the concept by design studios Tubes and Atelier 6. The new bridge will be used by public transport vehicles, pedestrians and cyclists, but not cars. The project includes the design of a new Dvorecký most tram stop. The Prague 4 side of the bridge is planned next to Žluté lázně by Jeremenkova Street. The Prague 5 side will be near the Lihovar tram stop. Dvorecký most should cost roughly CZK 1 billion. The city will pay CZK 132.72 million for project documentation. “The Dvorecký Bridge will be of great importance for tram transport as it will allow the interconnection of Prague 4 and Prague 5. It will be followed by so-called southern tram tangents, will connect important tram lines from Barrandov and...
Prague Council approved the construction of the metro line D in the section Pankrác – Nové Dvory. Construction will take eight years and it should cost CZK 52 billion, suggests a document discussed by Prague city’s municipal Transport Committee. The city authorities are also counting on subsidies from European funds. The Metro D line has faced numerous delays. Construction was originally supposed to start in 2010. There was a petition in 2016 to change the approved designs for the stations between Pankrác to Písnice because the designs are already outdated, and do not reflect current trends in mass transit. Metro D will connect the city center to neighborhoods in the southern part of the city that now has poor public transportation options. The trains will be driverless. Artists Vladimír Kopecký, Jiří Černický and Stanislav Kolíbal will design the new Metro D stations Nádraží Krč, Nemocnice Krč and Nové Dvory. “Our goal is to make every station a place of high artistic value where Prague citizens will feel comfortable. The new line will not end up like the last Metro A stations,” Prague Deputy Mayor Adam Scheinherr (Praha Sobě) said. “The construction of the new metro line D is one of...
Tikhanovskaya will have meetings with Czech President Milos Zeman and Prime Minister Andrej Babis on Tuesday. The Czech Senate is receiving leader of the Belarusian opposition Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, who is visiting the country until June 10, as the Belarusian president, Senate President Milos Vystrcil, who invited her to the country, told reporters on Monday. Tikhanovskaya will have meetings with Czech President Milos Zeman and Prime Minister Andrej Babis on Tuesday. She will also be received by Foreign Minister Jakub Kulhanek and will speak to the Senate on Wednesday. “The Belarusian presidential elections that were held in August 2020 were not free, fair, or legitimate. So, the Senate invited Svetlana Tikhanovskaya as its main guest to the Czech Republic. I see it the way that the Czech Senate and I personally consider her to be the Belarusian president,” he said. On Monday, Tikhanovskaya had the first meeting with the Senate leadership. Vystrcil also added that they spoke about the Czech Republic can possibly help the democratic forces in Belarus. Belarus held presidential elections on August 9, 2020. According to the Central Election Commission’s official results, incumbent President Alexander Lukashenko won by a landslide. His closest rival in the race, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya,...
According to the latest information from the Ministry of Health, the vaccination registration system should finally open to foreigners without public insurance by the second week of June. In vaccination centres, expats will only receive a two-dose vaccine from Pfizer/BioNTech and the price of vaccines should not exceed CZK 850. At least one vaccination site will be designated in each region and there should be more vaccination sites established in Prague. For more information, you can call the free Prague vaccination helpline 800 160 166. The helpline is open on working days: on Mondays and Wednesdays from 8 AM to 6 PM; Tuesdays and Thursdays from 8 AM to 3 PM; and on Fridays from 8 AM to 2:30 PM. If you have any questions or problems with the registration, you can contact the Assistance hotline 1221, which is available every day from 8 AM to 7 PM, where they can also help with registration and reservation if you do not have internet, for example. Moreover, you can e-mail in support of the Central Reservation System at [email protected]. What about self-payers? The Thomayer University Hospital announced a launch of vaccinations for foreign self-payers who are not insured with a Czech health insurance company, starting from July...
Once the dream of modern technology, sending messages and parcels zipping through miles of tubes, powered by air pressure, pneumatic dispatches have all but disappeared. The Prague Pneumatic Post was one of the world’s most long-lived parcel delivery systems using the technology, running since its introduction in 1889 until floodwaters damaged equipment in 2002. It is hoped that the system may yet get up and running again. At one time similar pneumatic post systems ran under Paris, Milan, Berlin, New York, and London. Already in decline from a heyday in the 1970s, the Prague system suffered a serious blow in 2002 when floodwaters put five of the system’s eleven main rooms completely underwater and caused extensive damage. As of late 2012, the system is still non-operational but recent plans for restoration may be underway thanks to a purchase by a Czech entrepreneur and pneumatic tube fan. Today pneumatic dispatch systems are increasingly rare; however, operational examples do exist. The Prague PTT still has pipeline networks throughout the Old Town, one of them being 5 kilometers long. The longest pipe connects the Main Post Office on the Wenceslas Square in the city center, next to the Prague Castle, the traditional seat...
Of all leisure activities, Czechs missed travelling the most during the pandemic, as conveyed by 70 percent of respondents. In the current situation, two-thirds of Czechs want to travel abroad, which is 20 percentage points more than last year, based on the findings of an online survey conducted for Prague Airport by the Median agency on a sample of 1,572 respondents during April and May 2021. Prague Airport had the same survey conducted last year in order to map the demand for travel. The survey thus offers a comparison of the opinions of Czechs after the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic and after more than a year of living with the disease spread consequences. The willingness of the interviewed Czechs to travel abroad increases even more under scenarios with no systemic or personal restrictions. In such cases, 85 percent of respondents would travel immediately or within a maximum of two months. Last July, there were over three quarters of respondents providing the same answer. Interest in air travel has also increased. In the current situation, a total of 63 percent of passengers would choose this means of transport. In July last year, it was 41 percent of survey respondents. “In recent...
About 400 people gathered in Prague on Friday to march from Palackého náměstí to the Justice Ministry to draw attention to what they say is insufficient punishment for perpetrators of sexual and domestic violence in the Czech Republic. The legal definition of rape under Czech law requires violence or the threat of violence, or abuse of the victim’s inability to defend themselves. Campaigners argue that this definition is far too narrow and contributes to the tiny number of rapes that are reported in the country. It is estimated that about 12,000 rapes are committed each year in the Czech Republic, according to Johana Nejedlová, the founder of Konsent, a non-profit organization campaigning against sexual violence, but only about 600 of these are reported. A fraction of these – only 78 cases in 2019 – end in successful prosecutions. Konsent, together with Amnesty International and the women’s rights non-profit group Česká ženská lobby (Czech Women’s Lobby), are calling on Czech politicians to support a bill expanding the definition of rape. “We are asking for a new definition of rape that includes lack of consent as opposed to criminalizing only the use of violence,” said Nejedlová. About 90% of rapes in the Czech Republic are committed by either partners, family members or someone the...
On the surface, Prague and Tokyo could not be more different. One is a city filled with bright baroque buildings and Gothic churches, while the other is consumed by neon-lit skyscrapers and mixes the traditional and the ultramodern. However, while the two capital cities are visibly different, there is a deep-rooted relationship between the Czech Republic and Japan, one that dates back to the 1920s. Prague is recognized as the medieval heart of Europe, with extravagant museums spread across the city, while Japan is considered to be one of the world’s greatest innovators, having inventions like the PlayStation and the camera phone on its resume. Japan is also often thought to be ahead of the rest of the world, proving true in 2014 when Bit Casino opened a Japanese site, making it the first casino in the world to specialize in virtual currencies. The site has continued to evolve over the years, offering several cryptocurrencies. Players can even get a 100% match bonus from Bit Casino of up to 80mBTC (roughly 277,000 yen). Interestingly, though, while Japan gets much of the attention for leading the way in different industries like online casinos and virtual currencies, its fame in areas such as robotics and automobiles...
KLM plans to operate three flights per day between Prague and Amsterdam. As of June 26, it will resume connections to Verona, Palma de Mallorca, and Dubrovnik. Since May 13, it has been flying up to seven times per week to Belgrade. At the beginning of 2021, its destination network was complemented with Southampton, Poznan, and Cork. In July and August, KLM will add flights or deploy larger aircraft to Porto and Ibiza. It will also increase the capacities for South European destinations in Portugal, Spain, Italy, Croatia, and Greece. During the summer of 2019, the company offered 92 destinations; there will be 96 destinations in the summer of 2021. KLM never interrupted direct flights from Calgary to Amsterdam. Carriers Add Flights from Prague Airport During June 2021, direct flights from Prague to over 70 destinations, operated by thirty airlines, are offered to passengers. Low-cost carrier Ryanair will resume direct flights to up to twelve locations in the first half of the month, while Smartwings is to service additional seventeen places. Czech Airlines is adding connections to Malta, servicing a route which will be operated by Air Malta, too. Other airlines are also returning to Prague Airport with their offers....
Czech media reporting that Germany has taken the Czech Republic off its list of risk countries. This means from Sunday, June 6th you will be able to enter Germany without having to do a test. Currently, you have to present proof of vaccination, negative test, or previous infection to avoid mandatory quarantine. However, there will be a 10-day transition period before tourism is allowed to resume fully, meaning you will still need proof of vaccination, negative test, or previous infection to use hotels and restaurants (until June 15). Flying to Germany will still require a negative test. Without a negative certificate, they will simply not be allowed on board. In addition, air passengers will still have to register their visit – either online in advance or by filling out a questionnaire upon arrival. France meanwhile is also liberalizing its entry requirements from Wednesday, June 9. Fully vaccinated EU tourists will be allowed to enter without a PCR test. Vaccinated travelers from the US and UK will be allowed to enter France with a PCR test – i.e. they will no longer need a “compelling reason” to enter the country. Czech Railways (only in Czech) resumed the operation of some trains between...
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