According to the press service of Odessa International Airport, from May 30 Czech Airlines flights from Prague to Odesa will be operated twice a week on Mondays and Thursdays. From June 17 a flight on Saturday will be added, and from July 1 – on Wednesdays. The departure time is 22:45 local time. The travel time is 2 hours. Aircraft from Odessa from May 30 will depart on Tuesdays and Fridays; from June 18 also on Sundays, and from July 2 on Thursdays. The departure time is 05:00 local time. 6.3 million tourists visited Odessa region in 2018. The majority of visitors are Ukrainians who come primarily from Kiev and Lviv. Foreign visitors are mostly from Moldova, Belarus, as well as Romania, Israel, Turkey, Germany, Georgia, and Philippines.
Enjoy winter in Prague and go skating! Until the end of February 2019, you can use the ice skating rink in Letná for free! Letná Ice Rink was visited by nearly 44,000 Praguers and 230 school groups in December. The public ice rink can be used by people up until 24 February for free. The ice rink in Letná is the largest in Prague and is already very popular this year. “Already 44,000 people visited it in the first month of the rink, which is an 11% increase compared to 2017. A great interest is also from school,” the council chief said. Compared to last winter, the ice rink was extended to open until February 24th, and thanks to the latest technology, it is possible to keep the ice rink up to 15° C above zero. On the skating rink, there are multiple facilities and services such as rental of skates and their grinding, skate instructors, and a heated tent. In Prague 6 (Vypich) you can also find a skiing track: the aim of the project is to promote cross-country skiing and lure the locals to exercise in the fresh air. Using the track will be free of charge. Admission is...
The railway line between Prague’s Smíchov and Řepy is rightly considered the most beautiful on the capital territory. The trains have run since 1872, and because of its profile and the surrounding natural sceneries, the railway soon earned the sign of Prague Semmering, according to the Austrian mountain railways registered on the UNESCO list. Leading it to be protected as a cultural monument. The section was built in the years 1872 (of which the viaducts were built in the last two years) by the Buštěhrad Railroad as part of a line connecting the former Smíchov Common Station and Hostivice. The operation at Prague Semmering was launched on 3 July 1872 for freight transport (mainly coal and wood). Passenger trains started here on September 16, 1872. The Buštěhrad Railways were nationalised on 1 January 1924. In the seventies, the modernisation of this track started, which consisted mainly of it becoming a double track, with plans for it to be electrified. However, at the end of the 1990s, reflections on its abolition appeared, and connections were reduced. During the floods in 2002, the track served as a form of substitute transport for the non-functional route B of the Prague metro, while it was...
The Canadian of Czech origin survived the Theresienstadt and Auschwitz concentration camps during World War II. After moving to North America in 1951, he lectured from time to time about what he had witnessed. The 90-year-old passed away from heart failure, according to a relative, former Czech Minister of Culture Daniel Herman. George Brady was born in Nove Mesto, a small town in the former Czechoslovakia, in 1928. His family, reportedly the only Jewish family in town, had a comfortable middle-class life until Nazi Germany invaded the country in 1939. Brady’s parents were deported early in the war and reportedly died at Auschwitz. Aged 13, George and his younger sister were first sent to live with a Catholic uncle elsewhere in Czechoslovakia but in 1944 were sent to Auschwitz. Assigned to the labor force in Auschwitz, George survived the camp. But his sister, Hana, died in a gas chamber there at age 13. He then returned to his uncle’s home, finished his schooling, and fled communist Czechoslovakia in 1951. After becoming a Canadian citizen, he set up a plumbing company in Toronto. In 2016, Brady made headlines when Czech President Milos Zeman refused to award him a medal on National Day....
January 19th 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of student Jan Palach’s death after self-immolation to protest about the invasion of Czechoslovakia by by Warsaw Pact troops. About half-past one, Jan Palach doused himself in petrol and set himself on fire near the fountain at the National Museum in Wenceslas Square in Prague. After several minutes, those passing managed to extinguish the living torch. The seriously burnt student was taken to the Faculty Hospital in Vinohrady, but the injuries were so serious that he had no hope of surviving. He left a letter at the site explaining the motives of his terrible act: “As our nation is living in a desperate situation, and its reconciliation with fate has reached its utmost stage, we have decided that in this way we will express our protest and shake the conscience of the nation …ˮ He died three days later, on 19 January 1969. The funeral of the young man at Prague’s Olšany Cemetery on 25 January 1969 was a mass protest against the ongoing allied occupation. Tens of thousands of people attended, but no government representatives came. Sadly, Jan Palach was not the only such victim. On 20 January 1969, a young worker named Josef Hlavatý did the same in...
You would be hard put to find another place offering so much charm in such a small space. Holašovice, situated in the middle of the harmonious landscape of Southern Bohemia, is one of the most charming village in the whole of the Czech Republic. This small community is a perfect representation of the traditional villages that used to dot the countryside of Central Europe. Most of them – almost all of them, in fact – have now disappeared. Holašovice is one of the few that remain and the only one that hasn’t been dramatically changed. It’s why UNESCO has included it on the World Heritage List. The town has experienced two crippling blows over the years. The first was in the 16th century, when almost all of the original Czech inhabitants of the village were wiped out through plague, following which it was almost immediately occupied by German settlers. The Second World War dealt another blow when the attempts made by the German inhabitants to join the village to the Reich were successful. After the war, in 1946, the enforced withdrawal began which affected the majority of the German inhabitants. The empty buildings were then inhabited by Czechs from the inland,...
Billboards targeting billionaire Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš have popped up across the country this week, showing portraits of citizens expressing “shame” over fraud charges he faces. The high-profile “I am ashamed of my prime minister” campaign was dreamed up by advertising executive Jaroslav Poláček. Nearly 100 Czechs, including celebrities and ordinary citizens, have appeared on the billboards. “The degree of shame caused by the prime minister is so high that it requires a reaction,” Polacek told AFP, who plans to take the campaign online. PRodukujeme, the agency he owns, has covered the printing and graphics, but the billboards themselves are paid for by the protesters who appear on them. Babiš, whose populist ANO movement tops opinion polls, has invited his billboard critics to meet him. “I’ll buy everyone a cup of coffee and persuade them that there’s nothing to be ashamed of and that I represent the Czech Republic well across the globe,” he said. Author: red
Kavárna Kočičí is a family-run cat cafe located in the heart of Prague. The matriarch of the family was a life-long accountant and cat lover with a daughter that developed a penchant for coffee. Mother and daughter combined their passions and opened the very first cat cafe in Prague. It all started with a TV show about Japanese cat cafes. Unhappy in their jobs at the time, the mother and daughter watched the show together and had the same idea at the same time. They decided to quit their jobs and open a cat cafe of their own. Kavárna Kočičí is proud to be the first cat cafe to work with animal shelters. Each cat that calls the cafe its home has its own unique story. Some of them were unwanted Christmas presents, some were survivors of torture, and some wandered the streets of Prague. The cat cafe gave these unfortunate cats a new opportunity to prove that stray cats can actually become loving pets and friends. The cafe is strictly vegetarian. In fact, most of the baristas are either vegetarian or vegan. One of Kavárna Kočičí’s goals is to show people that vegetarian and vegan food can be quite tasty and provide a...
Vlastimil Gular’s life took an unwelcome turn a year ago: minor surgery on his vocal cords revealed throat cancer, which led to the loss of his larynx and with it, his voice. But the 51-year-old father of four is still chatting away using his own voice rather than the tinny timbre of a robot, thanks to an innovative app developed by two Czech universities. It was developed for patients set to lose their voice due to a laryngectomy, or removal of the larynx, a typical procedure for advanced stages of throat cancer. The joint project of the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Prague’s Charles University and two private companies – CertiCon and SpeechTech – kicked off nearly two years ago. The technology uses recordings of a patient’s voice to create synthetic speech that can be played on their mobile phones, tablets or laptops via the app. Ideally, patients need to record more than 10,000 sentences to provide scientists with enough material to produce their synthetic voice. “We edit together individual sounds of speech so we need a lot of sentences,” said Dr Jindrich Matousek, an expert on text-to-speech synthesis, speech modelling and acoustics who heads the project at the Pilsen...
In the Czech Republic, around 9,000 households were without electricity on Thursday after heavy snow in regions bordering Germany and Austria. Over half a meter of snow had fallen in Jablonec, streets, and pavements are blocked. Central and Eastern Europe were hit by dramatic snowfall after cold air arrived from Scandinavia and western Russia. Germany and Poland are especially at risk of heavy snowfall today. At the time of the announcement, two meters of snow had already fallen on the northern slopes of the European Alps since the start of the year. For skiers, this snow will turn out to be a blessing, but for travelers and residents throughout Austria, Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, and the Low Countries, road conditions have been poor and mountain passes have been closed. Author: red
50 years ago the 20-year-old student Jan Palach set himself alight in protest at apathy in the face of the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia. Now, the house where he grew up (in the town of Všetaty, Central Bohemia), is to open as a special museum in August. The museum will feature – among other items – Palach’s briefcase and a letter found within it. Jan Palach spent most of his life in Všetaty, where he grew up and went to elementary school. He lived in a house where his parents used to run a sweetshop. The small house is located near the Tišický stream, at the end of Smetanova street. Jan Palach’s room was at the first floor. On 16 January 1969, he left the house for the train station in Všetaty, where he took the 6:10 train to Prague. Libuše Palachová continued to live in the house for a few more years. Then she sold the house and moved to Kamenický Šenov to live with her second son Jiří. She died there on 24 September 1980. As early as in 1969, proposals were made in Všetaty to place a commemorative plaque on the house in Smetanova street. This, however, did...
The Prague International Film Festival – Febiofest will deliver the best of contemporary international and Czech cinema for the 26th time this year, presenting over 150 films in 16 sections. After the Prague part it will again head to cinemas throughout the Czech Republic. The festival will get underway with a gala opening on Thursday 21 March 2019 at Prague’s Municipal House and will run until 29 March. The closing ceremony, at which the winners of the New Europe section, the Amnesty International Febiofest Award and the You’re the Filmmaker competition will be announced, will take place at CineStar Anděl on Thursday 28 March. As every year, screenings will be held at the CineStar Anděl and CineStar Černý Most multiplexes and the National Film Archive Ponrepo and Municipal Library cinemas. Febiofest will take place in the regions from 1 to 18 April 2019. 26th edition to present new Classics and TV Now sections This year’s edition will present 16 sections, including the New Europe competition, Panorama (the most noteworthy and successful festival films), Central Park (intended for a broad audience) and Masters (new works by famous directors). Also on offer will be very popular sections focused on particular parts of...
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