Almost 30,000 candles gradually burned in the courtyards of Prague Castle on Monday evening – symbolically one for every person who died of coronavirus in the Czech Republic since last March. The organizers placed candles commemorating the victims of the epidemic in plastic cups, which they justified by protection from the wind and melted wax. … Read more
The atmosphere of old times is evoked by houses in which Czech personalities were born. Today, some buildings serve as museums, while others have long lived in other generations. The guide, entitled Birth Houses of Famous Readers, introduces places where the ideas and characters of a total of fifty personalities were formed, including Prokop Diviš, … Read more
The World Press Photo photojournalism competition has announced this year’s nominations in individual categories. The six images nominated for the main prize for photography of the year are also clear. The range of topics they reflect is wide – from a pandemic to a grasshopper invasion in Africa to a tragic explosion in Beirut. There … Read more
On Saturday evening, the Czech Lion Film Awards were presented at the Rudolfinum in Prague. The most, six, were won by the historical Landscape in the Shadows by Bohdan Sláma. The film of the year, however, is The Charlatan by Agnieszka Holland, he collected five awards in total. Magdaléna Borová and Ivan Trojan became the … Read more
It was a ruin eroded to the bone, say Jan and Barbora Hora, who worked with Jane Veisser on the reconstruction of a former homestead in the Pardubice region. The house, which the former agricultural cooperative rebuilt into a granary, had a “looted guts” and a different scale. All that was left of the original … Read more
The White House today released an uncut footage of an interview between President Donald Trump and 60 Minutes reporter Lesley Stahl, from whom Trump left prematurely on set due to a journalist’s alleged bias, which he threatened with unspecified retaliation. According to Reuters, the presidential office thus violated the agreement with CBS television, according to … Read more
You can dive to a depth of up to 75 meters in a lake near Most in the Ústí nad Labem region. The beautiful water area with cleaner water than in Orlík was created by flooding the former Ležáky locality, where brown coal was mined for less than a century. Quarry impregnation began in 2008 … Read more
Cuba will soon devalue the exchange rate of the domestic peso against the US dollar. It will do so for the first time since the 1959 revolution. Reuters reported, citing three informed sources. The reforms are to be introduced by the end of the year. As part of the reforms, the authorities will also unify … Read more
Zdeněk Fránek’s houses are among the best architecture of the 21st century. The native of Boskovice, who says that his work was influenced by German expressionists and organic shapes from Hungary, won the prestigious Architect of the Year award for his life’s work. He is the author of, for example, Trails in the Clouds in … Read more