A British expat in Prague has taken to cleaning hundreds of Holocaust memorial stones dotted around the city because dirt and grime meant the people they commemorate “were disappearing for a second time”. Trevor Sage, 61, a retired engineer born in Finchley, emigrated in 2006 after his wife died, and first happened across the Stolpersteine or “stumbling stones” by German artist Gunter Demnig while on a tour of his adopted city. “My knowledge of the Holocaust was limited to what I knew from watching films and TV documentaries but leapt when I took a tour of Theresienstadt with a guide (Pavel Stránský) who had survived Terezin and Auschwitz. Years later I was walking around Prague with a Czech friend who pointed out some hand-made memorial plaques set into the pavement,” said Trevor. He explained they were called Stolpersteine. Czechs call them the “stones of the disappeared”. They commemorate the Nazis’ victims, including Jews, LGBT, Roma, Sinti, resistance fighters, political prisoners and the disabled. The first Stolperstein was installed in Berlin in 1996. Today there are over 70,000 in 2,000 towns and cities across 24 European countries. Sweden and Denmark will be added later this year. It is the world’s largest...
The central star of this year’s Startup World Cup & Summit, which will take place on October 5 and 6 in Prague, will be Apple co-founder and computer engineering legend Steve Wozniak. However, it will be complemented by other no less important personalities including Janeček Karel, candidate to Czech presidency, and Kyle Corbitt, president of one of the world’s largest startup incubators. The Startup World Cup & Summit (SWCSummit) is one of the most important startup events in Europe, which takes place every year in Prague. The event sees startups, investors, and corporate representatives from all over Europe meet to boost global innovation, connect the startup ecosystem, open the door to talented entrepreneurs and find the best startups in the world. Those interested can watch the whole event live directly at the venue in the Azyl78 tent in Prague’s Stromovka, or online. Tickets can be purchased at swcsummit.com. The summit will see guest speakers talk about their success in their own fields- take Kyle Corbitt, who else can understand the needs of startup founders better than someone who founded his own startup, Emberall. The software engineer worked for Google and is now the director of Y Combinator – one of...
Gardens with massive landings, awnings or plastic or plexiglass walls should soon be disappearing from Prague. The municipality has expanded its Manual for Cultivated Prague, which aims to combat visual smog in public spaces. The changes could be seen as early as next season after a manual on how to get rid of visual smog in the streets was introduced last year. The manual has now been supplemented with new rules for the appearance of front gardens, in monument reserves and monument zones. “Restaurant gardens are to complement and enhance public space, not to create obstacles,” said Adam Scheinherr, Prague’s Councilor for Transport, who recently took over the responsibility for monument care. “They must also be made sensitively and with taste.” He pointed out, for example, that in Malé náměstí there is a fountain from the 16th century, which is currently drowned between umbrellas and landings of gardens occupying almost the entire square in the heart of the metropolis. The rules say the gardens should not look like separate restaurants, and equipment in them should be kept at a minimum. The rules will also apply to the actual placement of gardens in the space with the minimum area that must...
Prague City has tightened its rules for outdoor advertising as of 1st October which will restrict it not only in the immediate center of the city but in all other protected areas. Parts of Vinohrady, Smíchov, Letná and Dejvice will now also have stricter rules which means putting up posters or even handing out leaflets outside certain places there could now be against the rules. “I am glad that we are gradually cultivating advertising in Prague,” praised the Deputy Mayor of Prague and Councillor for Transport, Adam Scheinherr. “It is not possible for a giant tarpaulin to hang across the entire façade of the historic house opposite the Trade Fair Palace.” The regulation of advertising in the city has existed since 2006, but before it only concerned the most strictly protected places. “This is another important step in regulating advertising smog in the city and setting clear rules,” said Petr Hlaváček, responsible for regional development and planning. “We have set an excessively long time before the regulation enters into force, so that operators can prepare for the new rules in time.” Advertising is most strictly approached on the territory of the Prague Monument Reserve, in the very centre. The second zone will include monument zones, where...
The embankment on Rašínovo nábřeží — better known as Náplavka and for its farmers’ markets — is a popular spot for Praguers during the warmer months. People come here on weekends for walks, to feed ducks and swans, and to bike. This embankment, however, was not always a place of leisure. Previously, Náplavka was a hub for rowing, sand mining, and the timber trade. As such, many of the residents of the now-defunct Podskalí settlement relied on the Vltava River for their livelihood. Today, only one building from that settlement survives — the former Podskalská customs house on Výton. Part of the embankment was once used to dismantle and anchor rafts from the Šumava forests to Prague found floating on the river. After a devastating flood, the city decided to build up the embankment walls to protect it from further flood damage. Completed in 1910, these walls stand at 1320 meters long and reach a height of more than 10 meters in some places. This created a floodplain between the walls and the river, which is regularly fortified to this day.
The European finale will traditionally be held in Prague at the SWCSummit on October 5 and 6. Startups from the V4 region will compete first, and then the event culminates in the pan-European final. The winning startup will achieve the title “Champion of Europe”. It will compete in California’s Silicon Valley Global Finale and get the potential investment of $ 500,000 from the organizing companies Air Ventures and UP21. The application form is free of charge & available at www.swcsummit.com. Due to the international environment, everything from registration to presentation before the jury takes place in English. “Year after year, we perceive a considerable shift in the Czech startup environment. Last year’s V4 Regional Round was dominated by the Slovak project Glycanostics and the Czech startup 24 Vision Systems, to which the jury awarded a wild card. The second made it to the bronze medal in the European final, “says Tomáš Cironis, director of SWCSummit. Break into the “Champions League” The winners of all the previous regional rounds are joined by the winners of several other startup competitions, such as the Czech Startup Challenge, Creative Business Cup or PowerMOTION. “By covering other events, we have moved the prestige of the...
Prague’s specialty coffee scene has grown tremendously in the past few years. It is on this premise that we have decided to launch a reviews’ series “Your Prague Mug” in cooperation with a certified coffee lover, advisor and expert living in the city, Olga. To begin the series, Olga went to Mari Vanna coffee house, to find out what they have to offer. I initially saw this place on Instagram. Pictures from this coffee shop and its unusual interior appeared on my friends’ social networks towards the end of last year. Beautiful furniture of the 60s-70s, which evokes memories of my childhood, colorful stylish dishes, eye-catching elements, and soft enveloping light – all of this made me need to go and check it out. This coffee shop is located in Prague 7, which is famous for its designer shops, hipster restaurants, numerous galleries, and city festivals. It is also dubbed the ART District. Mari Vanna coffee house itself fits perfectly into the urban landscape: a nice “zahradka” or a garden, beautiful lights, and a huge rowan tree right at the entrance. One Saturday morning I went to Mari Vanna. I saw a spacious cafe with about 17 seats, an interesting...
“Still the greatest and most influential comedy club on the planet.” Time Out On 12th November 2021, The Comedy Store will welcome in the Prague RockOpera a representative of the best that the European stand-up scene has to offer: Michael Odewale, Troy Hawke and Christian Schulte-Loh! Join us for a night of pure, unfiltered comedy from the very best of the British comedy circuit. Described as the birthplace of alternative comedy in the UK, The Comedy Store has been a launchpad for the careers of countless stand-up stars with the likes of Michael McIntyre, Eddie Izzard, and Jimmy Carr all performing on their world-famous stage. Tickets available at www.livenation.cz For the show on 12th November they will present: Troy Hawke Milo McCabe is a character comedian with over ten years of experience on the circuit. He has twice been nominated for the Amused Moose Best Edinburgh show award and was listed as GQ’s Top Ten comedy shows of the festival. TV credits include ITV’S Benidorm, BBC3’s Live at the Electric and various hidden camera and talking heads projects on Channel 4 and 5. As Troy Hawke he has garnered multiple award nominations and wins in various festivals across the world and...
A warehouse of second-hand items material was opened in Žižkov which will have an ecological, environmental, and educational function. The non-profit project was created with the support of the city district of Prague 3 and the municipality. The Skutek association is behind the idea of creating art re use and the operator Jan Vincenec, the ArtMap association and the project coordinator, took care of the implementation. Art re use functions in the premises as a “bank” of art material, which offers artists, students, non-profit projects and galleries material and instrumental background for creation, including “know-how” support and inspiration. It will also help cultural institutions, companies, and art schools with a meaningful redistribution of used and currently unnecessary material, which they themselves can no longer store. The basic benefit is to concentrate the efforts of individuals and institutions striving for responsible access to raw materials. In the future, it will also offer workshops for the public and various educational activities focused on the topic of recycling. “There is a huge demand for objects and materials that the warehouse of art material mediates for transportation, which proves that such a project belongs in the capital,” said Hana Třeštíková, Prague City Councilor for...
The Ministry of Health, in cooperation with Prague and the State Navigation Administration, is preparing to open a unique Czech heliport that will sail on the Vltava. The floating heliport will be built on the river below Vyšehrad to help hospitals in Prague due to a lack of space in the center by transporting patients to three Prague medical facilities in urgent cases. The new heliport would take patients to the General University Hospital on Karlovo náměstí, to the Institute for the Care of Mother and Child in Podolí, and to the similar facility near Prague’s Apolinář. None of these hospitals has a suitable landing area, so rescuers must improvise if necessary. Helicopter landing pads on the water are already common in Australia, and a similar heliport on the Thames is used for the rescue service. However, there is no experience with anything similar in the Czech Republic yet. The problem with the air transport of patients is one of the biggest problems in Prague. Hospitals located in historic buildings do not have space for the construction of safe landing areas, the construction of a heliport is not possible even on the roof. Now, in urgent cases, helicopters are landing in Zítkovy sady in front of...
St. Václav is the patron of the Czech lands and the most popular saint here. Since the year 2000, September 28 has been a state holiday: the day of Czech Statehood.
Prague is preparing to celebrate the 90th anniversary of its very own zoo which first opened its gates on September 28, 1931. Since opening all of them years back, it has grown into an exceptionally acclaimed institution. Tomorrow, on Tuesday, September 28, celebrations will commence, and the zoo will return to the style of the 1930s and show visitors just how much it has changed throughout the nine decades of its existence. The Prague Zoo will commemorate its anniversary with a book launch, and a rich accompanying program. There will also be historical motorcycles, a flute player in period costume, swing dance workshops, a hairdressing salon, a themed photo corner and another accompanying program. Many important guests will also arrive to congratulate the Prague Zoo on such a significant anniversary. Miroslav Bobek, director of Prague Zoo, expressed his appreciation to all who have helped keep the zoo running over the years. “The zoo is an extremely complex organism and would not work only without breeders, curators or veterinarians, but also without maintenance workers and cashiers, cooks and cleaners and other professions. “And so now, on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the opening of the Prague Zoo, I would...
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