British rockers The Cure will return to the Czech capital after six years. The group will perform next October 24 at the O2 arena, with forerunners being the Scottish punks The Twilight Sad. Tickets prices range from 1250 to 2000 CZK and will be on sale starting Thursday morning in the Ticketmaster and Ticketportal networks, the organizing agency Live Nation announced. The upcoming concert at the O2 arena will be their eighth in the Czech Republic. The performance is part of a European tour, during which the group will visit 22 countries and give 44 performances. The Cure first performed in Prague in August 1990 as the first Western rock band since the fall of the regime, even before the Rolling Stones. The last time they came to the metropolis was five years ago. For the largest Czech audience so far, they played the year before as the main stars of the Colors of Ostrava festival, on the stage on which they spent almost two and a half hours. They performed the most songs from the album Disintegration, which sold 3 million copies in the late 1980s. The pale face of frontman Robert Smith also emphasized make-up in Ostrava, his...
On Saturday evening, for the first time this advent, the City of Prague (DPP) sent a fleet of festively decorated vehicles to the streets travelling to the Three Kings. Among them are the Škoda 15T For City tram No. 9401, the T3 tram No. 6921, the popular Mazačka and the Irisbus Citelis retrobus. This year, the cable car on Petřín also joined in, both cable cars to Petřín, including the upper station, have been decorated and Passengers can ride them on regular flights. In addition, DPP also decorated the historic two-axle Ringhoffer tram No. 2210 and the Museum of Public Transport. Together, all the vehicles are decorated with more than 13,000 lights, interior holiday decorations and special exterior stickers with winter and Christmas themes. The Christmas decoration of the DPP fleet began last Monday evening in the Motol depot. All the Christmas vehicles will run in Prague’s public transport until the Three Kings (until January 6, 2022.) Their current timetables can be found by passengers and public transport fans on the homepage of the DPP website.
Since the new government restrictions have been introduced in the Czech Republic, involving the abolition of Christmas markets or restrictions on the opening hours of restaurants and bars, interest in New Year’s Eve stays in Prague has dramatically decreased. The operators of accommodation establishments and the Association of Hotels and Restaurants of the Czech Republic (AHR) reported that people have not been registering new reservations- they are instead waiting for the situation to develop. AHR President Václav Stárek says that the government should state as soon as possible what restrictions will apply at the end of the year. According to Stárek, after the declaration of a state of emergency, which applies until December 25, and new restrictions, there has been many booking cancellations, especially from abroad. The manager of the Bauer Hotel Group, Jakub Svačina, has recorded a decrease in reservations of tens of percent since the new restrictions were announced. “At present, there are no new reservations for New Year’s Eve, potential clients from abroad and the Czech Republic are certainly waiting for the restrictions,” added Ivana Peterková, CEO of Prague Hotels – Chateau St. Havel. Many in the hotel business are eagerly awaiting the announcement of the restrictions...
Bolt will expand its fast grocery service to Sweden, Poland and the Czech Republic by January after entering the booming business of couriering drinks and snacks to users earlier this year. Bolt’s founder Markus Villig raised $600 million from investors in August in a bid to reposition the ride-hailing startup as a “super-app” covering taxis, scooters, short-term car rentals, food delivery, and now fast commerce. The Tallinn, Estonia-based startup already ships groceries via couriers in seven European countries but will expand further into Eastern Europe and Scandinavia in 2022. In the Czech Republic, Bolt will face competition from local rivals like Rohlik, and Wolt, which was acquired by DoorDash for $8.1 billion in November. Villig says Bolt would be able to build out its grocery delivery network faster and more efficiently, thanks to the infrastructure it already had in place to support ride-hailing and electric scooter hire. “It is much easier for us to add new products on top of that platform rather than building that all out from scratch,” says Villig, CEO and cofounder of Bolt. “So that is why from the outside it looks like we are expanding to so many countries at such a rapid pace—we would...
This year’s meteorological autumn in Prague’s Klementinum ranks among the ten percent warmest autumns in 247 years, according to monitoring conducted by the oldest Czech meteorological station. The Czech Hydrometeorological Institute (CHMI) stated on their website that the average temperature from the beginning of September to the end of November was 11.6 degrees Celsius, which is 1.8 degrees higher than the long-term average noted from 1775 to 2014. November alone recorded a temperature average at 6.3 degrees Celsius this year. “This autumn, with its average temperature, ranked 14th to 16th out of 247 previous autumns since 1775, so it comfortably made up ten percent of the warmest autumns in 247 years. Only about five percent of autumns were warmer than this year,” meteorologists said. The warmest autumn recorded in Klementinum so far was in 2006 with an average temperature of 13.2 degrees. The coldest autumn was measured in 1786 with an average temperature of 5.8 degrees Celsius. In November this year, the average monthly temperature in Klementinum reached 6.3 degrees. The deviation from the so-called normal from 1981 to 2010 was 0.9 degrees and compared to the long-term average of 1775 to 2014 when it was 1.9 degrees higher. This...
The unexpected move to close Christmas markets just as most were about to open has sparked a very negative reaction. However, there are still places around the city where you can, not only have legally a mulled wine or grog, but also enjoy an authentic Christmas atmosphere. For example, markets are still operating on Wenceslas Square under the horse. The Prague 1 office authorized them as a “cultural event”, said Petr Bidlo, a spokesman for the city district, adding that “according to the organizers, all necessary anti-epidemic measures are observed”. Being a cultural event is not covered by government regulations. The Manifesto Market at Prague’s Anděl is shrouded in light and welcomes visitors with open arms. “We officially operate as a restaurant with a bar, we are covered, so we are not a market, but a restaurant,” project manager Lisa Ljubčič told a local Czech source, adding that the staff wears respirators and on every corner disinfection is available. “We tried to re-create a Christmas atmosphere here, the decoration were made by our architect Sara Gómez. We sell Christmas trees, excellent mulled wine and other cocktails,” adds the manager. Another beautiful place is Lucerna’s rooftop at Wenceslas Square. You not only...
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On Advent Sundays, you can meet processions of angels in the streets of the city center. The main program will be from December 5 till December 19 when people will be able to meet artists, actors and jugglers in the Prague city centre. A seven-meter puppet of an angel will be accompanied by acrobats wandering through the center of Prague. The symbol of Christmas, hope, safety, and protection will greet the inhabitants of Prague on the Old Town Square and its neighborhood. “We are happy we have managed to find a safe alternative to start the Advent. The majority of pre-Christmas cultural events had to be canceled and we liked the idea of angels in the streets,” said Hana Třeštíková, the councilor for culture. “The Advent time in the capital will be spiced up with some special performances and installations that will take place at various venues,” says Jakub Vedral, the producer, and invites the viewers to the first winter festival of street theatre. Whereas the summer edition of Za dveřmi has a twelve-year tradition, it has not taken place in winter so far. “Organizing the festival of street theatre in the month when it freezes is quite a challenge for...
Taiko will be dismantling the Christmas market stalls in Prague’s Old Town Square within the next week. Authorities will start dismantling the stalls on Monday at about noon. First, the workers will remove the holiday decorations, then the roofs of the wooden houses. Thus, only the Christmas tree will remain on the square until January 6, 2022. In the upper part of Wenceslas Square, Christmas markets continue despite the government ban. The Prague 1 office authorized them as a “cultural event”, said Petr Bidlo, a spokesman for the city district, adding that “according to the organizers, all necessary anti-epidemic measures were observed”. According to the organizers, drinks and food are served only for take away and the staff warns visitors that they should not consume them on the spot. The capital is now calling on the government to urgently compensate the market operators and stallholders who have already purchased supplies and do not have the means to dismantle their stalls. Although the City of Prague is also discussing ways to help those who have been affected, it cannot take concrete actions until the government makes a decision on compensation. On November 25, the government declared a 30-day state of emergency,...
The Czech Red Cross is offering free basic nursing courses to those who want to volunteer in hospitals In collaboration with the Czech Red Cross, the City of Prague has called on the general public to volunteer and help relieve healthcare workers. In addition to this, it has approached outpatient and general practitioners, asking them to become more involved in the fight against COVID. The municipality made this announcement on 3 December, after sharing that the virus is not slowing down and that healthcare facilities are beginning to reach their limits. What is worse, Mayor of Prague Zdeněk Hřib disclosed that the city predicts hospitals will lack 300 paramedics in the second half of December. For this reason, the capital’s healthcare facilities are in urgent need of help. “We all know that the biggest crisis will occur during the Christmas holidays. The people who would like to help do not necessarily have to be paramedics, thanks to – among other things – the free basic nursing courses organised by the Czech Red Cross,” commented Councillor for Healthcare, Milena Johnová. Everyone who is interested in helping the capital and the country fight the pandemic can attend nursing courses with the Czech Red Cross. Richard...
Drivers heading to Prague can now use the large-capacity car park in Černý Most, with a capacity of 886 parking lots. “P + R Černý Most is the largest investment in this infrastructure the city has ever experienced,” said Deputy Mayor for Transport Adam Scheinherr. The construction of the parking house has been started on July 1, 2020. Despite the coronavirus crisis, construction work on this building proceeded according to schedule. With this implementation, the City of Prague has made a significant contribution to improving the traffic situation in Prague 9, where there is a long-term shortage of parking spaces. There are parking spaces with chargers for electric cars (8 lots), parking spaces for CNG / LPG (89 lots) and special lots for people in wheelchairs and parents with prams. P + R Černý Most offers 28 lots for motorcycles and a lockable place where cyclists can store their bikes. Drivers will pay 50 crowns during the day and 100 crowns at night. The city plans to start construction of another parking lot next week, specifically in Nové Butovice. Next year, construction is to begin in Zličín and at the Hostivař Depot. Parking at the edge of Prague is experiencing increasing...
About 500 homeless people will be able to sleep in dormitories and similar facilities in Prague this winter. The dormitories will open on December 1 in extended winter operation. In the winter months, capacity will also increase and the operating hours of low-threshold day centers will be extended. Homeless people can also get vaccinated in the facilities, according to Prague councilor Milena Johnová (Praha Sobě) and director of the city’s contributory organization Prague Social Services Center (CSSP) Martin Šimáček. CSSP is the main coordinator of winter services, in which non-profit organizations also participate. There are two facilities for homeless people to evade covid “We managed to vaccinate some homeless people in cooperation with non-governmental organizations during the year, and we want to use winter humanitarian measures to further increase vaccinations. We will offer people vaccinations on arrival on dormitories on selected days, and vaccinations will continue in low-threshold centers,” Johnová said. She added that about 500 people underwent vaccinations at events in locations where homeless people stay. Other homeless people have been vaccinated in shelters. According to the councilor, the vaccination coverage of the homeless population is about ten to 15 percent. Per Johnová, it is not possible to determine...
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