Fast food isn’t as affordable as it used to be, and value menus are another victim of inflation and pandemic. The price of a cheeseburger at McDonald’s rose to CZK 39, an increase of about 11%. According to the company, the reason is the increase in the cost of production. “Since the price of raw materials has been rising for a long time, and McDonald’s wants to maintain the standard high quality of products and services, we have had to shift higher costs to the price of cheeseburgers,” said Jitka Paürkova, communications specialist and director of public relations at McDonald’s ČR. The cheeseburger rose in price at the beginning of April, before it was sold for 35 CZK. McDonald’s only specifies recommended prices, so prices for cheeseburgers may differ slightly from place to place. McDonald’s opened its first fast food in the Czech Republic in 1992. At that time, the cheeseburger was sold for 21 CZK. In 2013, the price raised to 25 CZK, four years later to 29 CZK and in 2020, to 33 CZK. In 1993, a Big Mac cost CZK 50, while the average salary was less than 6,000 crowns. But even the high cost did not...
A primary school teacher working in the Prague school Na Dlouhém Lánu has been sacked because she spread disinformation about the war in Ukraine in her class. Some students secretly recorded the lecture and showed it to their parents and to the school principal who promptly fired the teacher in question. “I was shocked by the content of the recording. It’s hard to imagine that an educated person could give such a lecture full of hate and untruth to children,” school director Renata Rieglova said to Seznam Spravy. The decision to dismiss the teacher was supported by the City of Prague 6 and personally by Czech Minister of Education Petr Gazdik. “A teacher should honor facts, not propaganda that contradicts the reality. Everyone has a right to an opinion, but not a lie. That is why I appreciate the approach of the school principal who immediately fired the teacher”, he said. The Minister added that from the very beginning of the war his department has sent material to all schools with instructions for teachers on how to talk to students about the war. The teacher told a class of 8th graders that none of the atrocities shown on Czech Television...
In response to the ongoing war in Ukraine, a new initiative called MAKE ART NOT WAR has been launched, inviting well-known Czech and international artists to create a collection of charity posters. The project, which aims to raise as much money as possible for humanitarian aid to Ukraine, which will go to the organisation People in Need, is now teaming up with the Vnitroblock centre in Holešovice, where all the works on offer will be on display. The opening of MAKE ART NOT WAR will take place on Thursday 21 April 2022 at 7 pm. The MAKE ART NOT WAR call for entries includes twenty artists, including prominent figures of the contemporary Czech art scene, such as Michal Škapa, Milan Cais, the duo Tomski&Polanski, but also, for example, Ukrainian street-art artist Andrew Kalkov or Spanish artist Liqen and other foreign artists. “The MAKE ART NOT WAR project is a nice and modest idea that can help in the fight against monstrous and very immodest power thinking. By not making the original artworks available, but the final form is a poster on quality paper, it should also be accessible to a wide range of potential buyers,” says Milan Cais, artist and...
A festival of Ukrainian gastronomy and culture will take place in Prague on May 5 at Pražská tržnice in Holesovice. Visitors can try borscht, vareniki, dumplings, and other dishes of traditional Ukrainian cuisine. Ukrainian musicians, national ensembles and artists will enrich the cultural program. The festival will run from 16:00 to 21:00 and all the proceeds will go to help Ukraine. The organizers will publish a detailed program on the Facebook page of the event. Ukrainian Ambassador to the Czech Republic Yevhen Perebyinis recently thanked all the Czech people for providing humanitarian assistance to the Ukrainian army. Czechs have donated at least 3.4 billion crowns in aid of Ukraine since the war started. Around a third of the total amount was sent to the Ukrainian Embassy in Prague for the purchase of military equipment for the Ukrainian army and the Home Guard. The Defense Ministry has sent military aid worth nearly 1 billion crowns to Ukraine since the war broke out. “We must do even small things, expressing solidarity with Ukraine. If you are here, then Ukraine is not indifferent to you,” Perebyinis said. Ukrainians are the most numerous foreign national community in the Czech Republic, ahead of Vietnamese, Slovaks...
These fascinating black and white photos were taken by Greg Wass that show street scenes of Prague in 1990.
Sustainability is a topic of great significance for Prague, including the city’s transportation system. If the Czech capital wants to be perceived as a modern destination, it is also necessary to consider the current climate situation, and to prevent, to a maximum possible extent, any influences that negatively affect it before they grow to dangerous proportions. By promoting sustainable mobility, Prague also strives to meet the expectations of those event organizers who prefer destinations that focus on sustainable development, when choosing locations for their events. Prague has been working on a sustainable mobility plan for a long time seeking to mitigate exhaust gases as much as possible by using electric power or by supporting bicycle transport. As a result, the number of Prague cyclists has also increased dramatically since 2019, by about 73%. It was the great leap in the popularity of cycling that led the representatives of the capital city of Prague to decide to expand the network of cycle paths even further. The development of electromobility in the Czech capital is supported as well. A good example is the signed memorandum regarding the cooperation of the City of Prague, Pražská energetika (Prague Energies Company) and ŠKODA AUTO. The main goal of this cooperation is clear: to fill in the white areas on the map of the capital city,...
In the online survey of the Prague Public Transit Company (DPP), people living in Prague can comment on the future shape of seats and their distribution in metro trains. All passengers who use the Prague metro at least once a week can answer the questions on the DPP website by the end of April. The survey consists of 12 questions. Respondents can give their opinion on the location of single seats in the direction of travel, but also, for example, what type of seats they would prefer on metro trains and how often they use the Prague metro. According to its spokesperson, the results of the DPP survey will be announced at the beginning of May. Seats placed sideways to the direction of travel will now be found in 12 metro trains on lines A and B. Prague and DPP have been testing this location in cars for about a year. “When you take the metro, you see that almost every passenger in this third seat, opposite the two-seater, always sits turned sideways. Only when he’s there with friends will he sit facing the two-seater, but only in exceptional cases,” says Adam Scheinherr, Deputy Mayor of Prague. The seats will turn 90 degrees,...
Following the example of other international air hubs, Prague Airport has decided to award the best airlines of the past year. In the first year of the contest, airlines were evaluated in two categories. The domestic airline Smartwings won the title of the fastest-growing carrier at Václav Havel Airport Prague, while Belgian Brussels Airlines became the most efficient carrier in terms of traffic at Prague-Ruzyně airport. “We drew inspiration from the international context, where the recognition of airlines is a standard procedure performed by airports towards their partners. After a difficult Covid period, we would like to appreciate those who have contributed the most to the resumption and recovery of our operations. At the same time, we want to motivate carriers to pursue further development at Václav Havel Airport Prague,”Jiří Pos, Chairman of the Prague Airport Board of Directors, said. The award recognizing the largest year-on-year increase in passenger numbers is presented to the air carrier that achieved the highest year-on-year increase in the total number of passengers transported compared to the previous calendar year, i.e., compared to 2020. For the year 2021, the award goes to Smartwings. The title of the most efficient carrier in terms of traffic, Best Performing Airline at Prague...
A few dozens of demonstrators took part in the protest held in front of the Russian Embassy in Prague on Saturday morning, calling attention to the murder of innocent civilians in Ukraine. The event had protesters lying on the ground with their hands tied behind their backs, as the murdered citizens of Bucha appeared to be in the video evidence of the killings. The action in front of the Russian Embassy began at 1 p.m. and lasted approximately twenty minutes. It was supervised by police, who diverted traffic. Ukraine’s recent counterattack against retreating Russian forces from multiple parts of Ukraine has revealed civilian casualties that have caught the attention of the international community. Photos and videos in Bucha show dozens if not hundreds of murdered civilians on the streets, some of them appearing to have been shot in the back of the head after their hands were tied. Czech diplomats are set to return to the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, the minister of foreign affairs, Jan Lipavksý, said on Friday. The city’s Czech Embassy would reopen soon. It was closed on February 24. The Czech Republic has become the first NATO country to send tanks to Ukraine, providing T-72 and armoured infantry vehicles...
The Prague Transport Company (DPP) will start building the new metro line D on 21 April, said Daniel Šabík, head of the company’s communication department, to ČTK. The first section to be built will be between Pankrác and Nové Dvory and the total cost should be about CZK 52.09 billion. The 10.6 km metro line will be served by ten stations from Náměstí Míru station (on Line A) crossing the Line C at the Pankrác station and continuing towards the southern area to the Písnice town, situated in the municipal district of Prague 12. The metro Line D will be constructed in two phases. The first one covers the construction of the line from Pankrác to the depo of Písnice and it will be later extended to the city center and Náměstí Míru station which is designed to allow further extension to the north. Line D will be Prague’s first automated metro line which will be equipped with the latest generation of CBTC system. The entire process should be divided into 3 stages. Stage 1 – Pankrác to Nové Dvory, 4.1 kilometres long, 5 stations. Stage 2 – Nové Dvory to Depo Písnice, 3.8 kilometres long, 3 stations. Stage 3 – Pankrác to Náměstí...
Czech operators have covered with 5G services the last section of the Prague Metro. 5G services are available also along line A between stations Dejvicka and Nemocice Motol, which was the first section covered by mobile services in 2015. As a result, the whole metro is covered with 5G. LTE services became available in more than 60 stations of the metro at the end of 2021, and the whole coverage project took three years. The operators T-Mobile, Vodafone, O2, and Cetin work in a consortium with the Prague city municipality to provide the network coverage. New metro D The construction of the first part of a new “D” line of the Prague Metro system will start on April 21. The line – which will feature driverless trains – will at first run from Pankrác to the as yet unbuilt Depo Písnice station in the south of the city before being extended later. In the first stage, the metro will be built between the stations Pankrác and Nove Dvory, then it will continue to Depo Písnice, and in the future, from Pankrac to Namesti miru. According to the City of Prague, the estimated total costs for this ambitious project will amount...
Tower clocks are a fundamental part of Prague’s landscape, bringing millions of tourists from all over the world to visit attractions such as the famed Astronomical Clock (Pražský Orloj). Did you know who is behind the restoration of most of these clocks? L. Hainz is a family business founded in 1836 by Ludvík Hainz, a watchmaker from Prague. The company has been responsible for the renovation and maintenance of roughly 80 clocks in the city, including those in St. Vitus Cathedral (Katedrála sv. Víta), St. Nicholas Church (Kostel sv. Mikuláše), Klementinum and the Astronomical Clock in Old Town Square (Staroměstské náměstí). L. Hainz has also produced and repaired over 300 antique clocks for town halls, churches, and monuments around Europe using 19th-century-old techniques. During the Austro-Hungarian Empire and up until the Second World War, L. Hainz was considered the leading maker of chronometers and watches in Prague. The business was later confiscated by the communist regime that also incarcerated some members of the family. The company was then returned to the heirs of the original owners in the 1990s. L. Hainz is still active today: it manufactures clocks in such a way as to reduce their maintenance requirements as much...
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