It will be “life-threatening” to walk along Náplavka or go there with friends for fun. During February, it will become a busy road. Due to the reconstruction of the road between Výton and Palacký Bridge, Prague Deputy Mayor for Transport and Heritage Conservation Adam Scheinherr (34, Praha Sobě) will have the vehicles driven there in February. “The cars will drive at a reduced speed and only for 200 meters, at the level of Dřevná – Na Hrobci streets,” he said. According to him, the cars will be safely separated from pedestrians and more than two-thirds of the space will remain freely passable. Scheinherr also defends himself by saying that a similar step has taken place in the past. “The same regime was in 2012 under the mayor Svoboda, when the dormitories on the Rašín embankment were repaired. They did it in the winter then when there aren’t that many people by the water. In addition, it is only one of three stages for about three weeks,” he said. Mayor of Prague 2: I don’t know about that at all! Blesk turned to Alexandra Udženya (46, ODS), the mayor of Prague 2, where the change of traffic is to take place....
In Q3 2021, the Czech Republic registered the strongest house price growth within the EU, both in a year-on-year (22%) and a quarter-on-quarter (7.3%) comparison, well above the EU average of 9.2% and 3.1%, respectively, according to Eurostat’s House price index. Among CEE countries, Hungary was the only other one that registered an annual growth rate higher than the EU average, whereas Slovakia was the only other one to record above-average quarterly growth. Long term increase continues Rents and house prices in the EU have continued their steady increase in Q3 2021, going up by 1.2% and 9.2% respectively, compared with Q3 2020. Between 2010 and Q2 2011, house prices and rents in the EU followed similar paths, but since Q2 2011, those paths have diverged significantly. While rents increased steadily throughout the period up to Q3 2021, house prices have fluctuated considerably. After a sharp decline between Q2 2011 and Q1 2013, house prices remained more or less stable between 2013 and 2014. Then, there was a rapid rise in early 2015, since when house prices have increased at a much faster pace than rents. Over the period 2010 until Q3 2021, rents increased by 16% and house prices...
QQ Asian Kitchen, after opening its doors in 2017, very quickly became one of the most talked-about restaurants in the city. The cuisine – a mixture of food from Bali and Taiwan with several other culinary stops along the way – was not something readily available in Prague. QQ Asian Kitchen became almost immediately successful. The food was excellent and the seats were full. That has not changed. The level of quality at QQ Asian Kitchen remains top-notch. QQ Asian Kitchen’s location, however, did change in the spring of 2020 and is now attached to Mosaic House Design Hotel. A location change for a restaurant with an already fixed reputation could be a risky endeavor, but everything is contingent on the quality of food and service. That, as stated, remains the same. QQ Asian Kitchen is an amazing place to visit and clearly deserves its very recent placement in the Michelin guide. Come hungry and do not skip out on the starters. Some of the most interesting and amazing dishes are to be found there. Seafood lovers should try the soft shell crab mushu taco alongside the seared yellowtail sashimi with butter ponzu vinaigrette. These are both pristine examples of...
Mayors of Europe has named Prague’s representative among its top 5 of 2021, citing Hřib’s efforts in mobility, cultural events, infrastructure, and more. “From mobility, culture events, climate action, infrastructure, and energetics projects, 2021 can surely be described as another successful year for mayor Hřib. With his hard work and clear vision, Prague will surely continue to develop itself in all directions,” states the website. Hřib has been the Mayor of Prague since 2018. He focuses on sustainability, smart city solutions, data-driven city management, transparency and human rights advocacy. Smart city solutions for Prague In 2021, Prague approved an action plan for the further smart development. Smart Prague 2030 provides a comprehensive overview of the planned projects in the Smart City field, which will be implemented by different city organizations and the capital city of Prague itself by 2030. Reviving businesses and tourism after lockdown In 2021, a new platform called DoToho! (engl. Go on!) was established in the Czech Republic. Its mission is to revive the businesses of SMEs with the help of entrepreneurs, managers and other domestic experts. Hřib is one of the sponsors of DoToho! platform, which is part of the Prague innovation strategy. Companies with a turnover of CZK 3 million to 300...
Since last October 11, when Prague City launched a free bike-sharing pilot project in cooperation with Rekola and Nextbike, more than 13,000 citizens have activated this option on Lítačka and more than half are active users. “People most often rent bicycles during peak hours, around 7 am in the morning and between 2 pm and 5 pm in the afternoon. Praguers also rent bikes at night, when we register an average of about 40 loans a day,” said Drápal. “After three months, despite the winter period, we can confirm that the combination of shared bicycles and public transport works. Therefore, we decided to permanently integrate it into the PID system,” said Adam Scheinherr, Deputy Mayor and Transport Councilor (Praha Sobě). Prague residents have the opportunity to use a shared bike (by Rekola and Nextbike) for free for 15 minutes and up to 4 times a day. Residents must, however, be owners of valid electronic subscription tickets in order to use the service. To rent a bike, one must first download the mobile application of the shared bike service provider. Then, they must link it to their regional transport system (Lítačka) account. Once this is done successfully, the bike-sharing system will allow...
During the past twelve months, the "bank" received 5,009 pieces of furniture, small electrical appliances or household equipment from a total of 1,058 donors.
The Czech capital city is also known as the City of a Hundred Spires (‘Stověžatá Praha’). Only a few people know exactly how many towers there are in Prague; however, it is certainly over one hundred. In Prague, towers of all kinds are everywhere, even in the least expected places. The City of Prague Museum manages the six most famous and well-known of them. Last year, 649,147 visitors visited the Prague Towers, which is about four percent more year-on-year. The most visited was the Petřín Lookout Tower (Petřínská rozhledna), according to an analysis by Prague City Tourism (PCT). It attracted 242,803 visitors, about 8,587 more than last year. 176,714 people visited the mirror maze, one of the most popular family destinations in the city. The building, shaped like a small castle, houses the “Hall of Laughter”, a labyrinth of variously curved and twisted mirrors that will instantly turn you into a dwarf, a beach ball, or a beanpole. This place is great fun for kids and adults alike. The second most visited tower, the Old Town Hall (‘Staroměstská mostecká věž’), recorded a decrease in visitors. Last year, 124,248 people visited it, (about 4,000 less year-on-year). Compared to 2019, there was...
A wild chase broke out in Jižní Město (south of Prague), on Monday, January 10, after a thief broke into a carriage house and stole a bike with GPS installed, worth 60,000 CZK. Local police chased him through the park and then down the road. The man ended up in handcuffs, had a screwdriver and a crowbar in his backpack. In his backpack, the police found broken fabs, screwdrivers, splitting pliers and a crowbar. In addition, it turned out that the criminal has been banned from Prague by a court for two years.
A new documentary book has combined images, interviews, and essays to mark the “temporary utopia” of Prague’s non-club rave scene between 2015-2020. The book named Location TBA features hundreds of images collected by a mixture of professional and amateur photographers over 300-pages. Photographs show dozens of parties including Polygon nights which were thrown at Prague’s main railway station – Praha hlavní nádraží – and Nite Vibes which would take over an abandoned nuclear bunker. Alongside the photographs are interviews with members of organisations, Polygon, Nite Vibes, Harmony and Cukr as well as night workers and frequent ravers. The essays included have been contributed by Michal Smetana, Jen Kratochvil and Jonáš Verešpej who have dived deeper into the scene’s history and social importance. The people behind Location TBA have said: “Location TBA documents the intense off-clubbing era in Prague of recent years. Besides representing a collective memory of a local scene, I believe that the book is also an important step in disrupting the often too exclusionary North/Western narrative of electronic music and club culture.” Location TBA is out now in Czech and English and is available to purchase online here.
Increased security at Prague Castle was promised in the wake of a scandal back in September 2015, when a group of activists managed to hang a giant pair of red boxer shorts from the Castle roof in protest at Miloš Zeman’s supposed affinity for authoritarian regimes. However, the Castle claimed that tightened security was in reality a response to the concerns over potential terrorist attacks demanding increased vigilance. Yesterday, Vít Rakušan, the interior minister, said he would ask police and security services to review measures in place at the 70,000 sq meter complex, which is the country’s most visited tourist attraction. “Prague Castle is a symbol of Czech statehood,” he tweeted. “It belongs to all of us. And we are not really all terrorists, as we may now feel when we visit it. I have asked the relevant institutions to review all the security measures that have created a war fortification around the castle.” Rakušan told Czech journalists the police would seek the opinions of all relevant bodies. “They will assess and comment on the necessity of the existing measures and possibly work on a new security regime,” he added. “I believe an assessment of the current massive measures is...
Zdeněk Hřib signed a contract with the Municipal Rental Agency, which helps people in need to find affordable homes
On Monday, the Prague Transport Company (DPP) began the construction of a trolleybus line from Palmovka to Čakovice.
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