Find out what is going on this weekend in Prague. Party, exhibitions, food festival, theatre, games for families, films and much more. The events and things to do in Prague this weekend. Karlín Soup Festival For hungry stomachs, we do recommend visiting Karlín Market this Sunday where the first edition of the Karlín Soup Festival will take place. You will be warmed up not only by traditional Czech soups such as potato soup, cabbage soup or tripe soup but also you will have the opportunity to taste soups from all over the world – the very popular Pho, chipotle, bouillabaisse, various types of cream soups and broths. Moreover, live music and fun program for children and adults will make this afternoon event even more enjoyable. Seasons opening Prague Zoo This Saturday, there will be the grand opening of the 91st season of Zoo Prague. Visitors will be able to enjoy a fashion show of children’s uniforms, which will be available for purchase on the spot, and a special collection of shirts with the motif of pangolins (also known as scaly anteaters) and authentic African dresses made from fabrics imported directly from Cameroon. Other events include the launch of...
On Sunday, April 3, Prague will host a large-scale concert in support of Ukraine. The concert on Letná plain will see the participation of famous Czech musical groups, public figures, artists, and athletes. The event starts at 15:00. Admission is free. The organizers are different Czech NGOs and the Ukrainian Embassy in Prague. In addition to the stage, the whole area will be equipped with the “Aid Market”: several tents where participants will be able to offer their assistance to refugees and residents of Ukraine. You can donate money, bring necessary things, provide housing, help with employment, sign up to volunteer at the registration center. Additional information will be gradually published on the page of the concert “Let us express our solidarity with the Ukrainians who are resisting the barbaric invasion, with the Belarusians who are relentlessly demonstrating against the dictatorial regime of Alexander Lukashenko, and with the Russians who are protesting against Putin’s aggression. Let us welcome our new neighbours. Some will be with us temporarily, others will find a new home here. Let us greet them and get to know each other. Together, let us also provide psychological support to those who remain in Ukraine and defend their homes,”...
Prague City reported that the Municipal Library (MKP) has opened a completely self-service library kiosk in Černý Most Centre. According to the capital, the new kiosk is the first of its kind in the country and is the result of MKP’s work to introduce RFID technology to its services. The library’s new self-service branch will have longer working hours, operating from 9 am to 9 pm every day. During these times, readers can sit in the 29-square-metre space, leaf through texts, and borrow or return books. At the moment, the kiosk has a collection featuring over 1,000 titles, which are predominantly adult fiction, children’s books, and popular science literature. Although one can enter the space, select a title, and borrow a book all on their own, they can still access support when they need it. More specifically, the City of Prague explains that the human element will still be necessary as librarians will need to look after the collection and the readers. Nevertheless, they will not always be present on site as they will only work at the branch on Mondays from 1 pm to 5 pm. If one requires assistance outside of these hours, they can receive support online every weekday from 9 am to 7 pm or on...
The National Theatre of Prague presents Der Ferne Klang, an opera by Franz Schreker. Though several of Franz Schreker’s nine completed operas were hugely fashionable in his lifetime, none has a secure place in the repertory nowadays. The best known of them was the second to be composed, Der Ferne Klang, whose first performance in 1912 established Schreker alongside Strauss and Schoenberg as one of the leading modernists of his generation. Schreker wrote his own libretto for Der Ferne Klang; it’s the story of an aspiring composer, Fritz, who sacrifices his personal happiness and that of his lover Grete in his lifelong search for the “distant sound” of the opera’s title that he hears within himself. Its mix of eroticism and fairytale magic, combined with a musical style that manages to be both ripely romantic and chromatically expressionist in a score crammed with iridescent orchestral textures, provided the template for the success of several of Schreker’s later operas. For tickets visit the National Theatre’s website About Franz Schreker In the first two decades of the twentieth century, Franz Schreker was considered the most significant German-language opera composer besides Richard Strauss * Der Ferne Klang (The Distant Sound, 1912), Die Gezeichneten (The Marked Ones, 1918) and Der...
Spring has arrived in the Czech Republic, with the March equinox taking place yesterday and increasing amounts of daylight through June. “Air temperatures will be above the long-term averages of March. In the afternoon, the humidity will drop even below 20 percent,” said František Šopko from the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute (ČHMÚ) on Monday. Monday will be sunny with day temperatures between 9 and 13 degrees Celsius. In the mountains, temperatures will range between 4 and 7 degrees. There will be a mild south-easterly wind in the east of the country. At night we expect clear skies and temperatures will drop to 1 to minus 3 degrees Celsius. There will be a slight south-easterly wind with a speed of 1 to 4 meters per second in Moravia and Silesia. On Tuesday we also expect sunny weather. The maximum daytime temperatures will be between 14 and 18 degrees. There will be a slight south-easterly wind with a speed of 2 to 6 meters per second, in the east of the territory a slight variable wind with a speed of 4 meters per second. On Wednesday we expect clear weather. Night temperatures will drop to 2 to minus 2 degrees Celsius. Daytime temperatures...
Prague’s public transport system is returning to normal operation today after restrictions caused by the covid-19 epidemic and the spring break. The interval on the A metro line is reduced from 180 to 150 seconds in the morning peak of working days, and by half a minute to 180 seconds in the afternoon. On the B line, it is reduced from 160 to 140 seconds in the morning, and by half a minute to 150 seconds in the afternoon. On the busiest C line, trains start running at 115 seconds instead of 130 in the morning peak, and at 145 seconds instead of 155 in the afternoon. Trams at peak times will run every eight minutes, while backbone lines 9, 17, and 22 will run every 4 minutes. City buses are newly running at five to six minutes on morning peak days on the backbone lines and at seven to eight in the afternoon. “On selected lines, for example 125 from Skalka to Smíchovské nádraží, 131 from Bořislavka to Hradčanska or 137 from Malé Ohrada to the Na Knížecí stop, the intervals will also be shortened on weekends,” said Filip Drápal, spokesman for Ropid. The operation of bus lines no. 100 (Zličín...
On Saturday, March 26, in the center of Prague will be held a march “Russians Against Putin.” Demonstrators will meet be at Náměstí Míru at 13:00 and then walk to the Old Town Square. The main organizer is the Prague Russian Anti-War Committee. “Friends! We need this action. Citizens of Russia in the Czech Republic should be able to say loudly and massively: “No war”, “No Putin”, “We are with Ukraine”, “We are with the Czech Republic, Europe, and the whole world against Russian aggression”. It should be made clear that Russians in Prague, people of different nationalities, are part of Czech society, not secret supporters of Putinism”, they wrote on Facebook. Over 200,000 Ukrainian refugees have now received special humanitarian visas in the Czech Republic, and the overall number of refugees in the country, according to mobile operators, is nearing 300,000. The government last week negotiated with the regions about how many refugees they could take and the fire service transported some of those who arrived in Prague to other regions in order to even out the burden and provide refugees with more suitable accommodation. In the coming days, the influx of refugees from Ukraine will increase, not only...
Sunday, March 20, is the 30th anniversary of the opening of the first branch of the fast-food chain McDonald’s in the then Czechoslovakia. An estimated 11,000 people turned up for the opening of the company’s first outlet on Prague’s Vodičkova street on 20 March 1992, iDnes.cz wrote. 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 deter customers from coming. In its first year, the company opened three restaurants in the Czech Republic, which attracted over three million customers. The first restaurant outside the capital opened a year later in the eastern city of Ostrava. And there was even a famous photograph of the former general secretary of the Czechoslovak Communist Party, Miloš Jakeš, sitting down for a McDonald’s meal a few years later.
The assistance center in the Congress Center in Prague’s Vyšehrad and other places continue to face a huge influx of refugees. To date, the number exceeds 40,000. In the coming days, the influx of refugees from Ukraine will increase, not only in Prague but also in other regions. Thousands more volunteers can join the registration system and start helping. The organization Vlna pomoci enables fast and efficient volunteer coordination using a web application. Everyone who is currently can easily register on the website. “In the past week, 5,230 volunteers applied, and we have already filled the first 2,000 volunteer positions,” says David Suslik. The Prague Congress Center (KACPU) remains the most congested. Volunteers work about 250 shifts a day. Other centers in Prague are Central Station and Florenc Bus Station. “The first week was hectic. The initial interest was incredible, but we will need almost twice as many volunteers from next week,” adds Suslik. The centers need interpreters, but non-linguistic volunteers are also welcome for a variety of assistance. You can help refugees with interpretation in obtaining patience, health insurance, and work permits or obtain social benefits. They also help provide humanitarian accommodation. In addition to KCP and other places...
Slovak developer Cresco is entering the Czech real estate scene with a CZK 1 billion project for a 500-apartment building in Prague’s Holešovice, the company announced on the project’s website. And it says it already has other plans for further expansion in the Czech Republic. Holešovice should have a major new development within a few years, namely the SO-HO apartment building, which Slovak developer Cresco Real Estate plans to build there for at least CZK 1 billion. The first stage has already started. The completion is to be finished by the end of 2023. In the first stage of the project, the former industrial building of Tesla Holešovice in V Háji Street will undergo reconstruction into an apartment block with 148 small flats. The price of the smallest 1-bedroom flats, which are already on sale, starts at around CZK 5 million. The project also includes atypical 1.5+kk flats, duplexes and lofts. In the next two phases, the developer will build a new residential block on the perimeter of Dělnická, Jankovcova and Tusarova Streets according to the design of the Prague studio Qarta Architektura. The original project of two office towers has transformed into a purely residential project with a commercial...
Users can learn more about the construction and architects of the capital’s buildings and monuments. Last week, the Prague Institute of Planning and Development (IPR) unveiled an application with a detailed map of the Czech capital’s historic centre. This map, according to IPR, was developed following an architectural and urban analysis of the city’s monument reserve and contains all the information about its architectural history. Although IPR designed it to make it easier for professionals to care for the monuments in the centre, the map will also benefit the capital’s residents, tourists, and students. Covering an area of 895 hectares, Prague’s historic centre occupies practically the entire centre of the city and is known as one of the largest monumental reserves in the world. IPR’s interactive map (also referred to as the Historic City Centre application) now allows professionals and the general public to get a better understanding of this territory. Search according to design, date of construction, or architect The Historic City Centre application is the first place where historical and current data about the territory and its buildings are collated and put together. There, one can find out anything they want to know about the monuments in the...
Find out what is going on this weekend in Prague. Party, exhibitions, food festival, comedy, and much more. The events and things to do in Prague this weekend. Balkan Bashavel Party The popular Balkan Bashavel is back in Prague! The well-known Slovak DJ duo MALALATA and their guests, the Prague band Lovesong Orchestra and Barcelona DJ Grounchoo will play o the rhythms of Balkan beats, gypsy, reggae and world music. Let yourself relax with energizing music that won’t let you sit down for one moment. Orchids of six continents Last chance to see a unique exhibition in the Botanical Garden Prague dedicated to the world of orchids! More than 2,300 species from all over the world will take the breath away of all (not only) flower lovers. This exhibition will help you discover the beauty of orchids and learn more about these exceptional flowers. As every year, you can also buy some of them in the greenhouse at the warehouse. If you are not sure which one is right for your home, ask the expert staff who will be happy to help. Festival of Delicate Flavours If you like food festivals, this Sunday the Festival of Delicate...
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