This weekend, June 6 and 7 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. Open Gardens Weekend is an event where people have the opportunity to see usually inaccessible gardens, but also get to know their favorite parks in new ways. A number of parks and gardens are organizing rich accompanying programs including guided tours, children’s activities, concerts, etc. The program also takes place in the gardens of Prague Castle. The Palace gardens under Prague Castle are situated on the southern slope of Hradcany hill and are a connection between Prague Castle and Lesser Town. 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...
With the arrival of spring, fruit trees across the Czech Republic have started to bloom. For those who don’t own a patch of land but would still like to experience the pleasure of picking fruit rather than shopping for it in the supermarket, there is the initiative called Na Ovoce – Fruit Picking. Na Ovoce created a website mapping out areas where one can legally go to pick fruit, herbs, and berries with the goal of avoiding waste and supporting a more environmentally sustainable community. The city of Prague owns 36 orchards, where anyone who wants to can pick fruit, either as a sweet snack on a picnic, or to bring home for later. Besides the orchards, there are also plenty of trees around Prague where one can pick and eat the fruit. Na Ovoce raises social awareness for forgotten fruits in public space. The disappearance of fruit trees at home and fruit imported from the other side of the globe led the initiative to create a unique database to map freely accessible fruit. A complete map is available online. The map also shows areas around the entire Czech Republic, and parts of Europe where people can pick fruit for free,...
On Monday, Prime Minister Andrej Babis’s cabinet approved a so-called “traffic lights system” that divides countries into three categories. Without a test for COVID-19 and from June 15, Czech residents will be able to travel to the countries marked in green and orange. These include, for example, Germany, Slovenia, Croatia, and Greece. According to Minister of Health Adam Vojtech, “green countries” are the safest ones, “orange countries” have an average risk of infection, and red countries a high risk of infection. Czechs and foreign residents can return from countries marked in green and orange, without following any restrictive measures (like undergo a 14-day quarantine) or producing a COVID 19 negative test. “However, you will need to produce a test when returning from countries marked in red. Foreigners coming back to the Czech Republic are required to have a valid test upon returning from yellow and red countries,” Vojtech added. However, the head of Czech diplomacy Tomáš Petříček recalled that in some countries the borders are still closed. Rail operator RegioJet has announced it will start operating a direct rail connection between the Czech Republic and Croatia at the end of the month. Green zone Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Germany, Austria,...
On Saturday, June 6, in Old Town Square, supporters will gather at 4 p.m. for a “Justice for George Floyd” rally. The event is described in a Facebook listing as being hosted by For Human Decency activist group in solidarity with the Minneapolis uprising and against systemic oppression.” Attendees are encouraged to bring material that reads the last words of Goerge Floyd or something more personal as long as it is in line with the purpose of the event. Floyd, an unarmed black man, died on 25 May in Minneapolis after a white police officer, Derek Chauvin, knelt on his neck for nine minutes while Floyd repeatedly complained that he could not breathe. Demonstrators launched their own protests in the United Kingdom, Germany, and Poland over the weekend. In Berlin, protesters gathered Sunday outside the U.S. Embassy, demonstrating for a second day. Thousands demonstrated on Sunday in London, according to the BBC, to protest Floyd’s death and police brutality. The protest was concentrated in central London, with hundreds taking a knee in Trafalgar Square for nine minutes, signifying the amount of time the former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin pinned Floyd to the ground. Residents in Krakow, Poland gathered at the city’s US...
After 73 days, restaurants and pubs in the Czech Republic were able to open their indoor premises on May 25. According to new data from Storyous, a quarter of restaurants, along with some pubs and cafes, did not re-open after the coronavirus lockdown. Storyous, a cloud POS system – which supplies cash register systems to 3,000 businesses in the Czech Republic, shows that almost 25 percent of restaurants, bistros, and bars remained closed. “The number of indoor premises on Monday, June 1, was the same as last week. It is possible that a quarter of the restaurants will not open at all,” said the CEO of Storyous Igor Třeslín. Stouryous maps individual companies through their cash registers. Restaurants can also create orders for suppliers through the system. “At the moment, 22 percent of companies have EET turned off in the cash registers,” added Třeslín. “The average restaurant or small pub will have probably about two to three weeks cash flow in reserve, that ran out and we have staff not getting money as businesses have no money to give them. Even if you lock up your building, there are fixed costs, alarms, security, insurance. All of that goes on, people...
Greece said Friday it would reopen its airports in Athens and Thessaloniki to arrivals from 29 countries from June 15, the start of the tourist season.
On Thursday, Czech Airlines announced a new daily flight to London (Heathrow) starting on June 25, meanwhile, on Friday the Hungarian low-cost carrier Wizzair announced the launch of a direct flight to Tirana, Albania. The carrier will fly to the capital of Albania twice a week from July 3, 2020, on Mondays and Fridays. Smartwings will start flying to Croatia from mid-June, as well as to Mallorca, the Canary Islands, Cyprus (Larnaca), Madeira (Funchal), and Bulgaria (Burgas and Varna). Air France will start flying from Prague to Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport from June 3. Initially, it will fly twice a week, increasing to four flights a week by the end of June. From July, the Finnish carrier Finnair plans to renew the flight to Helsinki. Prague Airport has a number of protective measures in place. All passengers and visitors to the airport must wear a face mask in all areas, maintain safe distances, and ensure hand hygiene. More than 250 disinfection stands are located throughout the airport. “If passengers arriving in Prague do not have their own face mask, they will receive it one for free. The check-in are also equipped with plexiglass, forming a safe barrier between the...
A startup with an AI-platform that controls the flow of beer from the keg to the tap — and set the amount of foam — plans to expand into the Czech Republic. With just a single touch pubinno’s smart taps pour the ideal beer at optimum pressure and temperature – depending on if it’s a pale ale or a stout of course. The product is specially developed for bartenders, as multiple pints can be poured one after the other using precise measures. The small screen also lets you know when the keg is empty, allowing pubs to run smoothly and more efficiently. Essentially, Pubinno’s Smart Taps System is meant to replace the manual taps in today’s pubs and bars with these intelligent taps. The bartender uses the touchscreen to select the amount of beer that needs to be dispensed. Once the service is initiated, the real-time conditions of the draft beer system (such as keg freshness, pressure, temperature, etc.) are gathered and combined with the service data (such as sales frequency, beer type, etc.). The company, which operates in Spain, Mexico, Israel and Cyprus, wants to add the Czech Republic to its portfolio because “they have among the highest keg...
Although she is not one of the best-known Czechs in history abroad, Milada Horáková has come to represent the sufferings of a great many people under the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia, especially during the 1950s. Milada Horáková was born in Prague on Christmas Day in 1901. After graduating, Milada married Bohuslav Horák, and joined the Czechoslovak National Socialist Party in 1929. She later worked for the City of Prague, and Women’s National Council, preparing legislative proposals supporting women’s rights, such as the equality of women in society and social issues. With the Munich Agreement and Nazi rule, she joined the underground movement. She and Bohuslav were arrested on July 2, 1940; Milada was held in Prague’s Pankrác district for two years before being sent to the concentration camp Terezín. Although the Nazis used brutal interrogation methods, she did not reveal any information. Sentenced to death, then to life imprisonment, she was moved to one prison after another in Germany. In October of 1944, she was tried and sentenced to the death penalty, but a Dresden court changed the decision to eight years’ incarceration. When the US army liberated Horáková, she was in a concentration camp in Germany. In May of...
Coronavirus travel restrictions are proving tough to bear for the hundreds of thousands who work in the hospitality industry, but are also giving to many cities in Europe, including Prague, time and space to think about how to deal with their overtourism problems. “The residents have been complaining for a very long time that the city doesn’t belong to them anymore,” said Barbora Hrubá of Prague City Tourism. “This is a great opportunity for us to rebuild and restart tourism in the city differently. We want a different type of visitor who visits more than the most famous monuments in the centre,” said Hrubá. 10,8 million foreign tourists stayed in the Czech Republic in 2019. Most of them came from neighbouring countries, with Germans leading the pack (more than 2 million), followed by Slovaks (750,000) and Poles (673,000). Prague City Tourism will run a special campaign from June till September and its goal is to bring as many Czechs to Prague as we can. There will be discounts and free admissions to Prague monuments, museums, and galleries. “We will try to attract them to the newly trendy neighbourhoods such Holešovice or Karlín,” added Hrubá. Tourists are not usually interested in seeing...
The Negrelli Viaduct is the second-oldest bridge in Prague. The viaduct spans over the Karlín valley and the Vltava River, crossing Štvanice Island. Construction started in the spring of 1846 and it was completed in 1850. The first regular train went on the viaduct on June 1, 1850. The reconstructed Negrelli Viaduct in Prague will be put into operation on June 1, 2020. At the inauguration on Friday were present the PM Andrej Babiš (ANO) and Minister of Transport Karel Havlíček (ANO). The viaduct was closed to trains in summer 2017. Reconstruction was complicated and originally supposed to end last September. The Railway Administration justified the delay saying that some parts of the bridge were in worse condition than expected. The 1,120 m long viaduct had no competitor in Europe for more than fifty years. It consists of 87 arches, 77 of which are of sandstone and 8 of granite (over the river). Open without any restrictions, it survived the floods in 1865, 1890, and 2002. That was because it had been designed based on fresh experience with a flood in 1845. The reconstruction of the Negrelli Viaduct is linked to the modernization of the railway route from Prague to...
From Saturday, May 30, to the end of October, concerts will be held on the rooftop of Lucerna. According to Ondrej Kobza, the live concerts will begin half an hour before sunset. “The last note will sound when the sun disappears beyond the Prague Castle,” he added. On the roof of the building, the organizers planted several cherry trees, which symbolize The Cherry Orchard play by Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. . Therefore, the concert program is called the “Cherry Season”. The admission is 100 CZK. More info here About Lucerna rooftop The Lucerna rooftop is a 1000 m2 unique space above the Lucerna palace. The whole building carrying distinctive elements of subsiding Art Nouveau and incoming Modernism has been finished in 1921 by Václav Havel (the grandfather of president Václav Havel). The space is used and will continue to be used for the purposes of events, as well as lectures and dancing. Among the events taking place here, there were morning yoga, lectures, book christenings, movies projections, concerts at the dusk with Iva Bittová and Dan Bárta, Holy Mass with Láďa Herian, the roof was converted into a green yard within the project Meadow upon the Lucerna.
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