The dispute between the city and the popular brothel has been going on for several years. The hall could soon be occupied by the city police and the whole space can be rented to companies and startups. Despite the decisions of the courts so far, it has not been possible to evict the ShowPark brothel from one of the halls in the Holešovice market. The company’s operator, Eroc, has one more option to appeal in disputes over eviction. If the court decides again in favor of Prague, ShowPark will have to move out by the end of the year. The city police and start-up companies would be based on the premises instead, said ČTK. In the dispute between the city and the operator about the evacuation of the building, the court first ruled less than two years ago, but the company appealed. However, the courts ultimately decided to vacate the building. “We have a final judgment for eviction, we have already handed it over to the executor, who has started execution. However, ShowPark’s operator contested the execution of this court decision in court,” said Deputy Mayor Pavel Vyhnánek. However, the company can still appeal the judgment. “It’s really just a...
The festival of new circus and theater Letní Letná will present, in addition to foreign guests, the work of 17 Czech groups. The event will take place from August 11 to 31 in Prague’s Letenské sady. The festival will also provide experiences for children on a separate stage, with free open-air performances as well as evening concerts and other accompanying programs. From France, which is considered the cradle of the new circus, Johann Le Guillerm will come with the Terces project. Acrobat, manipulator, theater artist and the most famous representative of the new circus Le Guillerm will return to Prague several times. The Swedish Cirkus Cirkör is also returning to Letní Letná to present a new version of Knitting Peace. The Czech stage will be the center of domestic new circus art. The program in the marquee will be opened by the premiere of the AirGym Art Company. Especially for the festival, she prepared NonSen(s), a performance that draws the audience into dreams, fantasies and illusions, using elaborate aerial and ground acrobatics. Illusions also help to create the novelty of the Pilsen Žongléros Ensámbl. A light show inspired by the principle of Camera Obscura leaves the audience wondering who is...
As part of a local tradition, the furniture will go to local elderly homes The Mayor of Prague Zdenek Hrib gave away several pieces of handmade furniture to two local elderly homes today, as the city website informed. The gift has both sustainable and social functions as it was made out of what was until recently the city’s Christmas tree. Not only that but the furniture was prepared by a local vocational school, which allows the young people to practice and get a moral reward for their work. Back in January, the Old Town Square of Prague shined bright with a 22-metre-tall spruce, bringing joy to locals and tourists alike. But as the holiday season was over, the tree had to be removed. Luckily, Prague had already figured out how to put it to good use: as it did last year, it turned it into furniture for elderly homes. To do this, the tree was cut down, and a company removed its branches and cut it into four-meter pieces. Planks were cut out from them, which were then industrially dried. Following this procedure, the material was delivered to the Secondary Vocational School in Jarov. The students did what they are good at by producing two bookshelves and...
For the last few weeks, Prague Astronomical clock appeared to be at the center of everyone’s attention. It has been revealed that the restorer Stanislav Jirčík, who created the latest copy of the famous artwork in 2018, has made his own input into the famous artwork. The city administration has decided to restore the original look of the calendar. In order to do that all known restorers of Mánes’ works are called out. For four years the changes made to the bottom part of the calendar have remained unnoticed. The details cannot be clearly observed from the distance but Milan Patka, an Orloj expert and a member of the Old Prague Club, has managed to reveal them. According to his findings, a number of characters were modified and got some new traits in this new copy of the artwork of Josef Mánes (1820-1871). The restorer changed the faces, hairstyles, hair colour, skin colour and even the gender of some characters depicted! According to Deputy Mayor Adam Scheinherr (Praha Sobě), Prague will have the botched work redone. “Both technical and artistic analysis of the current calendar and preparation of a commission for a new version are currently underway. For the new...
With the statement “Prague must belong to the people of Prague”, Prague representative Ondřej Prokop (ANO) drew attention to the increasingly challenging traffic situation in the metropolis. According to him, the people of Prague have nowhere to park. Drivers coming from Central Bohemia who commute to work are to blame. The Prague representative sees the problem primarily in housing estates near metro stations, where vehicles from outside of Prague are mostly parked during the day. For example, in the street near the Stodůlky metro station, on Monday morning, more than half of the cars had registration plates from outside the city. Many people living in the capital are also troubled by the problem. “A lot of people who go to Prague to work park here, they leave their cars in the housing estate and then you come home and you have no place to park your car,” said one citizen from Prague. “Mostly from six to eight, when people come home from work, it’s really full and you’re driving around looking for a place to put it,” added another. About 200,000 people from the Central Bohemian Region commute to the capital every day for work, and every year their number...
by Diana Dalton, Caroline Mueller A Czech artist has created a ghastly sculpture hanging between two buildings over Dlouhá Street featuring a woman’s form adorned in a traditional Ukrainian headdress that became a symbol of resistance during Ukraine’s 2014 Maidan Revolution. Veronika Psotkova’s wrought wire sculpture – Vinok – offers a tribute to mothers affected by Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine, which caused millions of mainly women and children refugees to flee. “It was clear at that time that the war will be much longer… and the atmosphere in our country started to change,” said Psotkova. Psotkova said she wanted to use her art to show support for Ukrainians since the war began but struggled with finding the time to complete her vision based on a Vinok — the traditional Ukrainian headdress worn by unmarried women as a symbol of celebration, nature, and peace. “It’s an artistic way to say that we know the war is real and it’s happening,” said Pstokova. “That we should remember the reason we have so many people from the east coming here to our country, and that we are a part of Ukraine’s fight for their nation.” Russia’s invasion has renewed the Vinok...
In Prague, there will be a ban on lighting fires or smoking in forests and parks and other places where there is an increased risk of fires from noon on Tuesday the 19th until Sunday at 4:30 p.m. Prague municipality spokesman Vít Hofman announced this to ČTK today. The announcement came after the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute (ČHMÚ) as warned against fires. The ban will apply to forests within 50 meters of their edge, parks and forest parks, places with stored hay or straw also within a radius of 50 meters, or fields where there is a risk of a flare-up of cultivated crops. In addition to smoking, with the exception of e-cigarettes, people will also not be allowed to use pyrotechnic products, launch flying lanterns and throw burning or smoldering objects. The driving of steam locomotives and the use of water from fire tanks for purposes other than extinguishing will also be prohibited. Due to the dry and warm weather, according to the ČHMÚ warning, the ban on making fires will apply in areas where it is not expected to rain heavily in the coming days. This applies to the entire country, with the exception of Vysočina and the South...
After postponing their 2020 tour to 2021, and then once more to this summer, Pearl Jam has finally hit the road on their most recent European tour. On July 22nd, they are coming to Prague’s O2 Arena as they wrap up their latest tour. They will be supported by the band White Reaper. Pearl Jam, started in Seattle, Washington, will perform an extensive set list of their biggest hits from their over a 30-year run. The set includes a number of songs off of their most recent release, Gigaton. It is their eleventh studio album and was released in March of 2020, just as concerts were shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It has topped several charts in Europe. This long-awaited tour was originally set to accompany said release. Eddie Vedder is still performing the lead vocals, alongside Mike McCready, Matt Cameron, Jeff Ament, and Stone Gossard, with the occasional fill-in, including touring musician Josh Klinghoffer. The band and its members have remained remarkably constant over the years, with all the founding members still performing. Seen as one of the vanguards of American grunge and punk rock, their distinctive riff-heavy, gritty but still catchy sound is sure to fill...
The cable car between Podbaba and Bohnice seems to be one step closer to reality. The transport company announced an international competition in which 23 applicants from nine European countries applied. Now the expert jury has selected five finalists, including four international firms and one Czech representative. The winner of the competition should be announced during September. The connection between Bohnice and Prague 6 is currently rather challenging. Even though the districts are about 3.5 kilometers apart as the crow flies, getting physically from one district to another is a half-day trip at best. It involves multiple transfers–the cable car will help immensely. A cable car will offer a simpler connection. Even if a tram connection is also planned in the future, these plans are very distant. The cable car seems to be significantly closer to realization. The expert jury has now selected 5 finalists, who are tasked with preparing and presenting the architectural design of all three stations and five supports. The Czech design studio Olgoj Chorchoj is among the five finalists. “From the submitted proposals, the jury will select the three best, while DPP will conclude a cooperation agreement with the authors of the first proposal in the...
All-day breakfasts, Italian wine with salty tartlets, handmade pizza, and pasta, open kitchen with a varied menu you can find this all in one place. My friends often ask me to recommend a place for breakfast, lunch, or dinner, and also to have a meeting over a glass of wine. They are always surprised that for each of these occasions I recommend only one place: La Mouka. La Mouka is an Italian restaurant which is located near I.P. Pavlova, where you can also have a delicious lunch (during weekdays from 12 am to 2 pm there is a 20% discount on the entire menu), meet friends for a cup of coffee with some dessert, watch how homemade pasta is prepared on open kitchen and just take a break from the bustle of the city. I like everything in here: the picture on the wall, light and air, the presence of an air conditioner, a cozy summer terrace, an open kitchen, a relaxed atmosphere, and a bar. I love this place, especially because of its budget and varied menu. It was my next impression after the local atmosphere – well-coordinated menu, with a pleasant selection of simple dishes, each of which,...
Holešovice, the surroundings of the O2 Arena, and the industrial zone in Šterboholy. These spots glow red in the temperature image from June 18th taken from the International Space Station. The sun heats surfaces to more than 45 degrees. What exactly does the picture show? What are its pitfalls? How can photovoltaic panels improve the situation? Landscape planning specialist Michael Pondelíček from the Prague Institute of Planning and Development answered all this and more. Could you describe what the June 18 image taken from the International Space Station shows? It shows what the temperature conditions are in Prague in instantaneous temperatures. So it shows the current temperatures in the given places. Since it was a warm day, we can therefore conclude that the image shows us an instantaneous temperature map. It is a simple idea of how the city is doing thermally on a normal day. We can also see white or dark red places on it where the temperature is around 50 degrees Celsius. And also the blue or green areas which are cooler and where the temperature drops to 30 degrees Celsius. Yes. The main one is the cooling corridor in Prague, which is the Vltava and its...
The Prague 1 district is the most flooded with shared scooters in the entire city, on which tourists also endanger pedestrians on the sidewalks. The management of the town hall is preparing several steps to regulate their movement in the center. So far, there is a debate about the introduction of zones in frequented places, where the motor of the scooters will be turned off and it will not be possible to continue with them. “From our point of view, electric scooters are just a tourist attraction that serves drunken alcoholic tourists to organize races. We have many cases where pedestrians have been injured. We take it as someone privatizing public space for their business,” says the mayor of Prague 1, Petr Hejma (STAN). According to him, the city district is trying to get rid of the scooters in the same way that the municipality succeeded in the case of segways. In 2016, the city adopted their regulation in the conservation area and in other places with a high concentration of pedestrians. For now, however, the Prague 1 City Hall is trying to agree on certain restrictions with the largest operators of scooters, Lime and Bolt. “Discarded scooters are especially...
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