Summer holidays are in its second half and Prague is ready to celebrate Pride Prague this week. The first week of August the city lights up with dance parties, summer cinema, prosecco party, wine festival, picnic, and rainbow parade on the river. Check out my tips: August 3 – August 9 Prague Pride Festival celebrates the LGBT community for the 10th year in the city. Prague is ready to organize hundreds of daily events and finish with riverboat parade. Check out for the program. There will be also interactive stream every day between 4 p.m. and 10 p.m. Boat parade on Saturday, Aug 8, starting at 1 p.m. August 4 Anežka live Yoga organized by National Gallery Prague Where: gardens of st. Anežka monastery When: 6p.m. -7p.m. August 5 Open-air concert of Queenie – Queen tribute band Where: Křižíkova fontána When: 8p.m. – 10p.m. August 5 Swing gaff in front of the National technical library. When: 7 p.m. – midnight August 5 Eat in Kino! at Manifesto Smíchov This week movie: The Big Lebowski When: starts at 7 p.m. August 6 Prosecco party on the Lucerna rooftop – volume 2 When: 5 p.m. -11 p.m. Ticket: CZK 150 August 6...
A new study has ranked 35 countries, using six different categories, to discern which are the best for raising a family. The Czech Republic ranks 10th overall, behind Belgium, Austria and Germany. Where is the best place to raise a family? A new study by the travel and family journalism company Asher & Lyric has ranked 35 OECD countries on how good they are to raise families in. Their “Raising a Family Index” is based on six different categories: Safety, Happiness, Cost, Health, Education and Time. Each category is made up of five different criteria, with data taken from several internationally renowned sources. The Czech Republic ranks 10th overall, garnering high scores across all five categories. It ranked particularly highly for the safety level (A), while it reported its lowest score for happiness (D), recording one of the ranking’s lowest scores in that category. It scored B in all other fields. Mexico and the United States received the lowest rankings in the index—the only two countries to receive ‘F’ grades overall. The index is largely focused on the challenges faced by families in the US and focuses its analysis on what its key findings ‘mean for American families,’ but does include short analyses of...
In Prague, wearing face masks could become mandatory again in grocery stores, post offices, and banks as the number of COVID-19 infections is close to 17,000. “The Prague Regional Hygiene Station could soon introduce the obligation to wear face masks in indoor public spaces,” said Prague Mayor Zdeněk Hřib (Pirates). The Czech Republic was the first country in Europe to introduce compulsory face masks, on 19 March. Masks had been mandatory in all shops up until July 1. Moreover, as a way to curb the recent spike in COVID-19 cases, Hřib confirmed that wearing face-masks in public transport (trams and buses) could once more become mandatory after summer. “The only reason this measure was canceled is that only a small part of buses and trams are air-conditioned, and wearing masks at temperatures above 25° C causes serious discomfort for many people,” Prague Hygiene Service chief Zdeňka Jágrová announced. Today, face-masks are still mandatory in the Prague metro and public transport in the hardest-hit regions, including Moravia-Silesia and Jihlava. The New Traffic-Light Map The Ministry of Health has published the first version of its district-by-district risk map of the Czech Republic, showing nine districts in the “green” category, including Prague. “The...
Everyday life creates a lot of waste, and while it would be ideal if our waste could be kept to a minimum, oftentimes it is simply inevitable. The vast majority of products come in packaging, and that packaging often gets disposed of unsustainably because we lack the information on how and where to recycle the various items and materials that can’t be placed into the usual yellow, blue and green recycling bins. This guide will help you learn exactly how to recycle in Prague. The color-coded Bins The color-coded bins are the basics of recycling. Although most of us are familiar with them, they are still often filled with items that do not belong there. To recycle efficiently, we should avoid filling them with items that belong elsewhere. Here is a reminder of what belongs where. The Yellow Plastic Bin Is suitable for plastic bottles and bags, plastic containers from cosmetics and cleaning products, CD cases, polystyrene, plastic foil such as cling film, and other plastics. When disposing of plastic bottles, be sure to crush them beforehand to save valuable space. The materials that do not belong into the yellow plastic bin include PVC, rubber, textiles made of plastic fibers,...
Airbnb’s Enhanced Cleaning Protocol and a step-by-step guide cleaning guide are now available to hosts in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland. Hosts in these countries can access the Enhanced Cleaning Protocol materials in their local language through the Resource Center, including a Quick Start Guide and Cleaning Handbook with guidance on the use of personal protective equipment, how to clean every room in a home, what to sanitize, and what supplies to have on hand. In addition to cleaning guidelines, hosts need to comply with guidance from governments or health authorities in their local jurisdictions. “I learned about the introduction of the cleaning protocol from an e-mail sent directly by Airbnb. For me, not much has changed in my already established method of cleaning, with the exception of additional disinfection. My guests are provided with disinfectants and face masks. I also inform them about the current situation, eg about current obligations for wearing the masks. When the guests come to us, I will welcome everyone to say that I apologize, but that I can’t shake their hand at this time, everyone immediately smiles that they understand this and thanks to that a good atmosphere of trust is established when guests see that I...
Ukraine put the Czech Republic on the list of countries with a high risk of COVID-19 infection, as people returning from the Czech Republic must undergo a 14-day-long quarantine.
A group of cloistered nuns from Prague have decided to leave the convent to move to a more peaceful place. Hunted during the communist period, in 1991 they had returned to their historic monastery near Prague Castle. But there is one thing that the Carmelites just can’t bear: the too much noise caused by the nightlife. For this reason, the nuns of the convent have decided to move to a former farm outside the city, recently returned to the local church. “After a long discernment and research that lasted more than ten years, we moved from the original monastery in the center of Prague to the small town of Drasty, a few kilometers from the city. The reason for our decision was the growing noise from the square“. The community of discalced Carmelite nuns started in Prague in the seventeenth century. The first monastery was built at Lesser Town in Prague. In 1782 the community of sisters was forced to leave the convent and go to exile. When the sisters could finally come back to Prague ten years later, their house had been taken. As compensation for that, they were given a monastery that originally used to belong to the...
The Kampa Museum, damaged by a fire on July 15, will reopen to the public today (July 31). Visitors can enjoy an exhibition of works by Alfons Mucha and Pasta Oner, as well as a permanent exhibition by František Kupka, a pioneer of modern abstract painting. The Minister of Culture Lubomír Zaorálek promised financial assistance. After visiting the museum at the beginning of last week, he stated that the Czech government will provide units of millions of crowns. It is necessary to re-install all air-conditioning systems and technical equipment in the museum’s facilities. “We have a long way to go before the Kampa Museum will be restored to its original condition,” said Jiri Pospisil, chairman of the Jan Mladek and Meda Mladkova Foundation. Firefighters managed to extinguish the blaze, but had to evacuate pieces of art from an exhibition hall hit by the thick smoke. More than 100 people had to be evacuated from the museum and nearby buildings. One person needed medical treatment. About Kampa Museum The museum is housed in the former Sova Mills in the Lesser Quarter. It houses the Jan and Meda Mládek Collection, which contains works by the pioneer of abstract art František Kupka and...
Milan Kundera, the 91-year-old author of “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” and other acclaimed novels, has decided to donate his private library and archive to a public library in Brno, where he was born and spent his childhood. The Moravian Library in the city of Brno said Thursday that the entire collection would be transported from Kundera’s apartment in Paris in the fall. The donated items include editions of Kundera’s books in Czech and some 40 other languages, articles written by and about him, published reviews and criticism of his work, newspapers clippings, authorized photographs, and drawings by the author. Everything will be made available to the public, mostly in digital versions, the library said. Czech Culture Minister Lubomir Zaoralek welcomed the move, calling it “an extraordinary cultural event.” Kundera fled communist Czechoslovakia and has lived in France since 1975. France is where he published his most famous books, including “The Book of Laughter and Forgetting” (1979), “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” (1984), “The Art of the Novel” (1986) and “Immortality” (1990). His later works, written in French, have not yet been translated into Czech. Kundera’s wife, Vera, told the library that her husband has been cooperating with a translator...
Wearing face masks in tram and buses will become mandatory again, probably from the beginning of September.
The Czech brewing industry recorded a loss of over CZK 4.7bn (€ 179mn) from March to May due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) and related government measures, as stated in a study conducted by the Center for Economic and Market Analysis (CETA), published on July 28. The most negatively affected were restaurants and bars, which were forced to close overnight. Beer sales in this segment decreased by 55% (728,000 hectoliters) between March and May. The losses of the breweries in terms of sales exceeded CZK 1.104mn. Sales of bottled beer, which was sold more in stores, increased by about CZK 794mn. “The hospitality and beer industries suffered significant losses during the coronavirus crisis. Most pubs reopened in June, but the coming weeks will decide whether they survive. The most critical situation is in Prague, Karlovy Vary, and other localities dependent on tourism,” said executive director of the Czech Association of Breweries and Malthouses Martina Ferencova, quoted by the Czech News Agency. “For the next period, it will be crucial for the government to continue to support the most affected sectors, including the hospitality industry, and at the same time not burden them with new administrative and regulatory measures,” Ferencova stressed. In connection...
Czech breeders Miroslava and Erik Lajbner got famous through social media with a viral photo session of their five white Swiss shepherds dogs on an empty Charles Bridge. To make this incredible photo session possible, the family had to get up at 3 in the morning in order to be alone on the bridge. The Lajbner have been professionally breeding Swiss Shepherd Dogs since 2001 and they have repeatedly become winners of prestigious competitions. Detailed information about this beautiful dog breed and the breeders themselves can be found on their official website If you are looking for a job in Prague, check our new job section here Time to move to a new flat? Rents with no commission here! Want to advertise your business on Prague Morning? Contact us at [email protected]
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