Irish low-cost carrier Ryanair said on Tuesday it is reestablishing from July 1, 2020, summer season flights on 20 routes to and from Prague airport. Some selected connections will be operated by the Irish carrier in the last week of June. According to the information published on Ryanair’s website, Czechs can fly for example to Corfu, Rhodes, Zadar, Mallorca, or Malaga. Tickets price starts from CZK 419 and can be booked until midnight on Thursday, June 11, only on the carrier’s website. Olga Pawlonka from Ryanair said: “As popular holiday countries like Italy, Portugal, and Spain are opening up for international tourists, we are ready to welcome passengers on board from 1 July, when Ryanair will be operating over 1,000 daily flights across our entire network. We want to offer our customers as much confidence and flexibility as possible with no flight change fee if their travel plans change.” Prague now has 12 scheduled flights, and at the end of June, there should be at least 21. Ryanair operated 30 routes in Prague before the crisis. Ryanair destinations from Prague: Barcelona (resumption of operations – June) Bari (July) Bordeaux (July) Bournemouth (July) Brussels (August) Dublin (July) Edinburgh (July) Gothenburg (August)...
More than a thousand Prague 3 residents signed a petition to rename Koněvova street after Queen Maria Theresa.
The Metronome Festival Prague has released a statement letting fans and customers know that the music event has been postponed to June 17 – 19, 2021. “In reaction to the regulations enacted by the government, we, unfortunately, must confirm that despite our best efforts Metronome Prague will be postponed to June 17–19, 2021. We’re very sorry to have to make this decision, but all possibilities for a date this year have been exhausted,” organizers wrote on the website. “In light of the uncertainty of the situation in three months’ time, we’re facing a case where no one will purchase tickets and therefore we cannot organize the festival in the way we would like. We asked to meet with representatives of the Ministry of Health, but we continue to receive the answer that only 500 people can gather in one place even though we were prepared to accept all possible preventive measures that we proposed that would prevent the potential spread of contagions better than current measures.” Unfortunately, flights from the US are also uncertain, which would prevent the participation of some performers. The good news is that talks with booking agents are positively progressing and more than half have confirmed...
Simply pass through a huge steam machine making chocolate and you will find yourself on a traditional cocoa plantation in Mexico. The educational and entertaining Chocolate Experience Center, which takes visitors through the process of creating chocolate from plant to completed product, is now opening in Průhonice, close to Prague. The Experience Center introduces visitors to the history of chocolate production—and they can even visit a special room meant for cake throwing. There is also be augmented reality installation and chocolate workshops for families with children or corporate teambuilding events. An investment of more than 200 million crowns by the Czech–Belgian company Chocotopia is behind the creation of the Experience Center. The owners, families Van Belle and Mestdagh, have been preparing the center for two years. “We didn’t want a museum or a boring exhibit full of information,” Henk Mestdagh explained. “We tried to design a program that people couldn’t experience anywhere else.” “We are especially proud of the room meant for cake throwing,” Henk added. “Visitors will make cakes from semi-finished materials that manufacturers would otherwise throw away, and then they can take part in the sweetest battle in the world. We also organize birthday parties where the birthday...
The COVID pandemic is backing away and the life in CZ is slowly coming back to normal. Also, cultural and social life in Prague is finally coming alive. Take part in some of the upcoming events. June 6 New Saturday farmers’ market is opening in “Občanská plovárna” (former oldest river spa in Prague) Where: U Plovárny 1, Prague 1 When: 8 a.m. – 2 p.m. June 6 Mint Market: Design market, where you can buy products of local designers such as fashion, jewellery, cosmetics, delicacies, etc. Where: Pražská tržnice – Prague market, Holešovice June 6 Prague rooftop festival: Enjoy the rooftop sunset party at various places. This Saturday at Duplex. Music, party, Prague view, drinks, sunset. When: starting at 2 p.m. June 6 Tennis open day: Whatever your level, come & play some tennis! Where: Střelecký ostrov 336, Prague 1 When: 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. June 7 Free tour of Vyšehrad Where: Meeting spot is the Information Centre Spicka When: 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. till June 7 Žižkov beer garden – a week of International kids day celebration – roller coasters June 7 African market in Prague – come to buy and taste African delicacies and fruits. Where:...
Earlier this week, Prague Mayor Zdeněk Hřib posted on his Facebook account that the city had created a new “Manual for a Cultivated Prague”, which delineates visual esthetic practices for the capital’s businesses. Ms Třeštíková also said that the sudden crash in tourism could be used as an opportunity to reform some of the tourist locations in Prague, removing what has been called the “visual smog” in the capital, such as the many Thai massage parlors. “The manual is the next step in the fight for a cleaner city center, following the slogan Prague is not Disneyland. The coronavirus crisis may also be an opportunity for change,” she adds. The “Manual for Cultivated Prague” is a set of rules containing different decrees, regulations, and laws. According to Třeštíková, it is not a binding document. “We will explain through pictures what is advisable and what is not,” says Třeštíková. The aim is, for example, to remove unnecessary stickers and to eliminate plastic boards with photographs of dishes typical of Chinese restaurants. “At the moment, the streets of Prague are like a room where people speak very loudly and everyone are shouting. If we manage to talk a little more quietly, everyone...
MINT Market returns to Prague. On Saturday the 6th of June, Prague Market in Holešovice will come alive with up to one hundred stalls full of fashion, jewelry, accessories, and many more original products made and sold by Czech independent designers. The event is barrier-free, dog friendly and the entry is free. Due to the COVID-19 situation, the future was uncertain but eventually, the organizers managed to move the original March date to June 6. The event will comply with all the current hygienic regulations. It will be held outside in front of SaSaZu nightclub. The participants will wear masks and there will be plenty of disinfectants for everybody. MINT Market is known for its friendly and relaxed atmosphere, which has attracted thousands of fans all around the country over the past ten years. It returns to Prague for the first time this year, but it will be the 28th MINT Market held in the capital city so far. Holešovice’s Prague Market after has undergone a complete change and, this year, visitors will be able to enjoy the market without being distracted by all those unsightly stalls with cheap fake clothes that had been evicted last year. MINT Market will...
On Saturday, June 6, in Old Town Square, supporters will gather at 4 p.m. for a “Justice for George Floyd” rally. The event is described in a Facebook listing as being hosted by For Human Decency activist group in solidarity with the Minneapolis uprising and against systemic oppression.” Attendees are encouraged to bring material that reads the last words of Goerge Floyd or something more personal as long as it is in line with the purpose of the event. Floyd, an unarmed black man, died on 25 May in Minneapolis after a white police officer, Derek Chauvin, knelt on his neck for nine minutes while Floyd repeatedly complained that he could not breathe. Demonstrators launched their own protests in the United Kingdom, Germany, and Poland over the weekend. In Berlin, protesters gathered Sunday outside the U.S. Embassy, demonstrating for a second day. Thousands demonstrated on Sunday in London, according to the BBC, to protest Floyd’s death and police brutality. The protest was concentrated in central London, with hundreds taking a knee in Trafalgar Square for nine minutes, signifying the amount of time the former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin pinned Floyd to the ground. Residents in Krakow, Poland gathered at the city’s US...
After 73 days, restaurants and pubs in the Czech Republic were able to open their indoor premises on May 25. According to new data from Storyous, a quarter of restaurants, along with some pubs and cafes, did not re-open after the coronavirus lockdown. Storyous, a cloud POS system – which supplies cash register systems to 3,000 businesses in the Czech Republic, shows that almost 25 percent of restaurants, bistros, and bars remained closed. “The number of indoor premises on Monday, June 1, was the same as last week. It is possible that a quarter of the restaurants will not open at all,” said the CEO of Storyous Igor Třeslín. Stouryous maps individual companies through their cash registers. Restaurants can also create orders for suppliers through the system. “At the moment, 22 percent of companies have EET turned off in the cash registers,” added Třeslín. “The average restaurant or small pub will have probably about two to three weeks cash flow in reserve, that ran out and we have staff not getting money as businesses have no money to give them. Even if you lock up your building, there are fixed costs, alarms, security, insurance. All of that goes on, people...
Coronavirus travel restrictions are proving tough to bear for the hundreds of thousands who work in the hospitality industry, but are also giving to many cities in Europe, including Prague, time and space to think about how to deal with their overtourism problems. “The residents have been complaining for a very long time that the city doesn’t belong to them anymore,” said Barbora Hrubá of Prague City Tourism. “This is a great opportunity for us to rebuild and restart tourism in the city differently. We want a different type of visitor who visits more than the most famous monuments in the centre,” said Hrubá. 10,8 million foreign tourists stayed in the Czech Republic in 2019. Most of them came from neighbouring countries, with Germans leading the pack (more than 2 million), followed by Slovaks (750,000) and Poles (673,000). Prague City Tourism will run a special campaign from June till September and its goal is to bring as many Czechs to Prague as we can. There will be discounts and free admissions to Prague monuments, museums, and galleries. “We will try to attract them to the newly trendy neighbourhoods such Holešovice or Karlín,” added Hrubá. Tourists are not usually interested in seeing...
The Negrelli Viaduct is the second-oldest bridge in Prague. The viaduct spans over the Karlín valley and the Vltava River, crossing Štvanice Island. Construction started in the spring of 1846 and it was completed in 1850. The first regular train went on the viaduct on June 1, 1850. The reconstructed Negrelli Viaduct in Prague will be put into operation on June 1, 2020. At the inauguration on Friday were present the PM Andrej Babiš (ANO) and Minister of Transport Karel Havlíček (ANO). The viaduct was closed to trains in summer 2017. Reconstruction was complicated and originally supposed to end last September. The Railway Administration justified the delay saying that some parts of the bridge were in worse condition than expected. The 1,120 m long viaduct had no competitor in Europe for more than fifty years. It consists of 87 arches, 77 of which are of sandstone and 8 of granite (over the river). Open without any restrictions, it survived the floods in 1865, 1890, and 2002. That was because it had been designed based on fresh experience with a flood in 1845. The reconstruction of the Negrelli Viaduct is linked to the modernization of the railway route from Prague to...
From Saturday, May 30, to the end of October, concerts will be held on the rooftop of Lucerna. According to Ondrej Kobza, the live concerts will begin half an hour before sunset. “The last note will sound when the sun disappears beyond the Prague Castle,” he added. On the roof of the building, the organizers planted several cherry trees, which symbolize The Cherry Orchard play by Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. . Therefore, the concert program is called the “Cherry Season”. The admission is 100 CZK. More info here About Lucerna rooftop The Lucerna rooftop is a 1000 m2 unique space above the Lucerna palace. The whole building carrying distinctive elements of subsiding Art Nouveau and incoming Modernism has been finished in 1921 by Václav Havel (the grandfather of president Václav Havel). The space is used and will continue to be used for the purposes of events, as well as lectures and dancing. Among the events taking place here, there were morning yoga, lectures, book christenings, movies projections, concerts at the dusk with Iva Bittová and Dan Bárta, Holy Mass with Láďa Herian, the roof was converted into a green yard within the project Meadow upon the Lucerna.
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