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Václav Havel would have turned 90 this October. A new exhibition at Villa Stiassni in Brno looks beyond his familiar roles as playwright, dissident and president to explore his relationship with architecture. But Havel grew up in a family in...

The student film Volklore by Czech filmmaker Viktorie Štěpánová this week received a Silver Student Academy Award in the Alternative/Experimental category of the international film festival in Toronto. The video essay explores the...

On the occasion of the 216th Anniversary of the Independence of Mexico, H.E. Mrs. Berenice Díaz Ceballos, the Ambassador of the United Mexican States, hosted a special reception at the beautiful Kaiserštejnský palác. The Honored Speaker was :...

As part of the ASEAN Plus Film Festival 2026, Mr. AMIRUL ZAKI BIN FADZIR, the CDA of Malaysia in the Czech Republic, organized a screening of the Malaysian movie “Babah” = Father Film Synopsis: Babah is a captivating family drama highlighting...

An exceptional Egyptian Vulture chick is being raised at Prague Zoo. Both parents originated in the wild and owe their survival to international cooperation among experts. The male, named Brok, was shot with a shotgun in Lebanon and arrived at...

En su primer aniversario, la organización celebrará las Fiestas Patrias con dos eventos masivos en Praga y Olomouc, abiertos tanto a la comunidad internacional como a los checos que quieran sumarse y disfrutar las tradiciones chilenas. Toda una...

Among events in Prague marking the imminent 90th anniversary of Václav Havel’s birth is an exhibition showcasing letters the then dissident sent his wife during a lengthy spell in a communist jail. The often philosophical correspondence was...

National public broadcaster Czech Radio is testing a new system designed to warn the public of emergencies through radio broadcasting. The technology will eventually allow listeners to be alerted quickly about events such as floods, fires or...

How did people record their journeys four hundred years ago, and how do illustrators do it today? A new exhibition by the LUSTR illustration and comics festival at Prague’s Star Summer Palace brings together historical travel diaries, maps and...

Prague is hosting a week of debates, workshops and public events devoted to climate change and its impact on society and the economy. Linda Zeilina-Cross, founder and CEO of the International Sustainable Finance Centre, tells RPI the aim is to...

One of the National Gallery’s most important paintings is about to undergo its most extensive restoration in decades. Albrecht Dürer’s The Rosary Feast will be out of the gallery for about five years and placed in the hands of Czech experts...

The site of a one-time Soviet Gulag, located in Kazakhstan, is now being studied by archaeologists from the University of West Bohemia in cooperation with the NGO Gulag.cz. The camp once held more than 20,000 people, mostly political prisoners...

The Czech government has approved an amendment to the addictive substances law that aims to curb kratom use among young people and crack down on illegal sales. Dubbed Lex Kratom, the bill would raise the minimum age for buying kratom from 18 to...

The Záviš Cross, one of the most precious medieval treasures in the Czech lands, has yielded two unexpected discoveries. Researchers have found a second wooden relic inside the cross and have also discovered that some of the gemstones were...

A community event in Brno-Kohoutovice featured a performance by 24-year-old slackliner Timotej Horák. Barefoot and wearing traditional folk costume, he walked above the heads of spectators along a 60-metre-long slackline stretched between the...

On September 12, 1901, Libeň officially became the last district incorporated into Prague prior to the establishment of Czechoslovakia. Associated with writer Bohumil Hrabal, it has seen a number of historical events. Operation Anthropoid, one...

Hop harvesting is coming to a close in the Czech Republic, and most growers say it has not been a good year. Prolonged drought and extreme heat have led to a poor harvest. Could climate change threaten the quality of one of the country’s...

On the occasion of the 204th Anniversary of the Independence of Brazil, the ambassador of the Federative Republic of Brazil, H.E Mr. Orlando Leite Ribeiro, and Ms. Renata Abreu e Lima hosted a special reception in the Troja Château, a unique...

On the Occasion of the Constitution Day of the Slovak Republic and the Day of the Armed Forces of the Slovak Republic, H.E. Mr. Martin Muránsky, the Ambassador of the Slovak Republic to the Czech Republic, hosted a reception in the beautiful...

On Monday, 7th September 2026, at the Romanian Embassy in Prague, we officially launched another year of Women Changing the World Awards Czech & Slovak Kamika Palickova, Founder of The Women Changing the World Awards Czech & Slovak...

On Sunday, September 6, the Romanian community in Prague celebrated the XII edition of the Celebration of Romanians in the Czech Republic – a soulful event, which, after a two-year break, returned with the same energy, emotion, and joy...

H.E. Mr. Pichit BOONSUD, the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Thailand, and his spouse, and the Embassy of the Kingdom of Thailand organized a Thai traditional market to celebrate the enduring friendship between the people of the Kingdom of...

Hundreds of hazardous containers filled with chemicals remain in the Šumava National Park. As early as 2023, experts recommended beginning immediate remediation, but this never took place. A new survey conducted this year confirmed extensive...

En esta segunda entrega de nuestra serie, seguimos el recorrido de Beethoven por Bohemia, donde escribió la Séptima, la Octava y comenzó la Novena; dejó tres versiones de la carta a su Amada Inmortal sin enviar; evitó a la élite, pero se...

Among the events marking the 90th anniversary of Václav Havel’s birth in October will be the festival Havel ALIVE. Taking place at Prague Castle, it will showcase theatre, film, design and music connected to the late democracy leader. The venue...

Otto Jelinek, who was born in Prague but spent almost all of his life in Canada, has died at the age of 86. Jelinek was a world champion figure skater for Canada, became a government minister – and later in life served as his adopted country’s...

Hana Zagorová, one of the country’s most popular singers and a nine-time winner of the Golden Nightingale award would have turned 80 on September 6. She died in August of 2022, shortly after her 75th birthday. She left behind an extensive...

This Tuesday marks the 185th anniversary of the birth of Antonín Dvořák, one of the Czech music greats. To mark the occasion, the Antonín Dvořák Museum is giving visitors a rare chance to see one of his original manuscripts, the autograph score...

This unconventional race through the centre of the Czech capital attracts runners of all ability levels. This year, 9,500 runners from 98 countries took part, including elite athletes from the Czech Republic, Kenya and Ethiopia. See more here.

Ludwig van Beethoven, one of the greatest composers in history, had a strong connection to the Czech spa town of Teplice. He went there seeking refuge from Vienna’s aristocratic elite and a place to focus on his music. Although the baths could...

A rare fragment containing part of the Gospel of Saint Mark has left Prague for the first time in almost 700 years. Brought to the Czech lands by Charles IV, the fragment has now returned to Italy, where it will be reunited with the other...

Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, Jaromil Jireš’s famous 1970 film based on Vítězslav Nezval’s novel, premiered in a newly restored version at the Venice Film Festival on Monday. The poetic, dreamlike film, blending Gothic horror, surrealism and...

The 19th edition of the Dvořák Prague International Music Festival gets under way this Saturday at the Rudolfinum, bringing together leading orchestras, soloists and conductors from around the world. I spoke to festival director Jan Simon about...

Did he jump or was he pushed? The death of former Czechoslovak foreign minister Jan Masaryk, who fell from his apartment window at Prague’s Černín Palace in 1948, remains unexplained nearly 80 years after his demise. Forensic experts have now...

A previously lost play by Václav Havel, Warning, will soon get its first performance, in connection with the 90th anniversary of his birth. The torso of the piece was found by David Dušek, the grandson of Havel’s friend Zdeněk Urbánek. Indeed...

A new mural has been unveiled on Kostnické Square in Prague’s Žižkov district. Created by Polish artist NeSpoon, it is inspired by traditional Czech lace. Ruth Fraňková went to have a look. The artwork, which was unveiled on Monday evening...

Václav Bartuška is today Czechia’s ambassador to the United Kingdom. He first came to public attention as a student leader during the Velvet Revolution. Soon after he was tasked with investigating Czechoslovakia’s recently deposed StB secret...

President of the Republic Petr Pavel welcomed the President of the Republic of Armenia Vahagn Khachaturian, at Prague Castle on Thursday, September 3.

Ambassador of the Republic of Kosovo to the Czech Republic, H.E. Ms. Albesjana Iberhysaj-Kapitaj, hosted Mr. Adam Vojtěch, Minister of Health of the Czech Republic, as the guest of honor at a working breakfast with the Women Ambassadors’ Group...

A shaggy appearance, unmistakable sexual dimorphism, or female dominance. Prague Zoo is breeding dark lemurs again after a ten-year hiatus. The contrastingly colored pair is currently curiously exploring the island opposite the large turtles at...

What better way for a radio station to celebrate its 90th birthday than together with its listeners? Enjoy today’s special birthday program, where the main stars are our listeners from around the world. 90 years ago, Radio Prague International...

For five days, Štetl Fest brought Jewish culture, history and contemporary debates to Brno and the surrounding region. At a time when the war in Gaza has contributed to growing tensions around Jewish life elsewhere in Europe, Director of the...

La auténtica comida mexicana no solo triunfa en Praga. En Brno, la capital morava y segunda ciudad más grande del país, hay varios restaurantes especializados en la comida de ese país que tienen gran acogida entre el público local. Pero ninguno...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had a particularly close relationship with Prague. He first visited the city in 1787, where his music was already hugely popular. He returned the following year to conduct and perform his opera Don Giovanni, which...

One of Czechia’s best-known religious symbols is heading to Ireland. A specially dressed copy of the Infant Jesus of Prague is being given to the Diocese of Kerry to mark Ireland’s presidency of the Council of the European Union. The Archbishop...

For eight years, professional botanists and enthusiastic amateurs across Czechia have been working on an ambitious project: a comprehensive photographic atlas of the country’s wild plants. Around 3,300 plants will be represented by some...

Czechia’s education system faces a major demographic shift. While some schools are still struggling with a shortage of places, a sharp decline in births means others could eventually have too few pupils. Education policy analyst Nikola Šrámková...

On August 31, 1936, at 10:00 a.m., a Czech signal travelled from Prague to the world for the very first time. The broadcast was opened in English by Eduard Svoboda, technical director of Radiojournal — marking the beginning of an era that has...

The European Truck Racing Championship and NASCAR Euro Series drew 46,600 fans to Most over the weekend. Both Czech favourites, Adam Lacko (pictured) and Martin Doubek, finished third in their respective categories. See more here.

Petr Novák’s unmistakeable, delicate tenor voice is synonymous with Czechoslovak society of the late 1960s. This talented musician shot to fame in this country at the time of the Prague Spring, when his gentle love songs influenced by...

Czech Radio’s international service is celebrating its 90th anniversary. What is Radio Prague International like today? How has it changed and who are the people behind it? Radio Prague International has been the voice of the Czech Republic...

Despite the rainier days in the second half of August, the Czech Republic continues to face a long-term moisture deficit. One solution that can significantly help combat drought is beaver dams. Soutok Protected Landscape Area is located at...

A boomer sitting next to a Gen Alpha kid, both clapping at the same performance — this is what it might look like at the intergenerational festival Obnaženi (Uncovered) in the town of Chomutov. Its aim is to bring generations together, and that...

The Czech tennis players Jakub Menšík and Karolína Muchová have won the mixed doubles title at the US Open, claiming their first Grand Slam title. The pair had only entered the tournament on a wild card – and earned a USD 1 million prize. The...

American Karen Kruger grew up without knowing that her mother was Jewish or that she had escaped Czechoslovakia as a child on a Kindertransport. Her search for the family history eventually led to the documentary Letters from Brno and back to...

The President of the Republic, Petr Pavel, received the credentials of the new extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassadors at Prague Castle on Wednesday, August 26, 2026. H.E. Ms. Vibeke Rovsing Lauritzen, new Ambassador Extraordinary and...

A Przewalski’s horse foal has been born in central Kazakhstan after hundreds of years. Its parents are the mare Tessa, originally from Tierpark Berlin, and the stallion Zorro, bred at the Prague Zoo. Both arrived in the country in June...

New Apostolic Nuncio Eugene Martin Nugent will arrive in Czechia on Thursday, September 3, where he will be welcomed by Czech and Moravian bishops at Prague’s Archbishop’s Palace. Pope Leo XIV appointed the Irish diplomat as the Vatican’s...

En 2021, decidió crear una comunidad para unir las culturas hispana y checa. Además trabaja en la embajada de Perú y se recibió de antropóloga con una tesis muy crítica sobre la comercialización de la cultura latina en Chequia a través de la...

Brno’s ŠTETL FEST returns for its fifth edition from August 26 to 30, bringing together history and memory with contemporary Jewish culture, music, theatre and debate. This year’s theme, Returns, focuses on descendants of Jewish families coming...

August 21, 1968, went down in Czechoslovak history as the day that Soviet-led Warsaw Pact troops crushed the Prague Spring reforms and the hopes of millions of people yearning for freedom and democracy. At a solemn ceremony outside the Czech...

Crystal chandeliers, monumental glass sculptures, jewellery, fashion shows and even a tram transformed into a kind of Orient Express. For six days, the northern Czech city of Liberec is celebrating a material that has shaped this region for...

The success of Kingdom Come: Deliverance has done more than put medieval Bohemia on computer screens around the world. Players are increasingly travelling to the real places depicted in the game, including Sázava and its medieval monastery. Jan...

A sea lion died at a zoo in the north Bohemian city of Liberec at the weekend after part of a child’s toy evidently got stuck in its gullet. Two other sea lions also died by choking at the institution in the past. A large male South American...

A concrete plant on Prague’s Rohan Island, between Prague’s Karlín and Libeň districts, could soon become an urban farm. Local councillors have put forward a new plan for the site, which includes growing areas, a greenhouse and a new lookout...

Czech scientists have launched an international project to save the critically endangered Jurinea cyanoides, a plant that is considered to be a remnant of the Ice Age. It can still be found in a few remaining locations in the Czech Republic and...

National harvest celebrations, such as those held within the Země živitelka agricultural fair in South Bohemia (pictured), traditionally feature not only agricultural machinery exhibitions but also various folk events. See more here.

Horseback archery is slowly finding its place in the Czech Republic, thanks to enthusiasts like Oldřich Pítra. He organizes international workshops and runs his own club in the hope that this still relatively fringe sport could one day make it...

Pavel Brázda, one of the most distinctive and independent Czech painters of the 20th century, was born in Brno on August 21, 1926. Pavel Brázda developed his artistic ideas during the 1940s, a period marked by war and major political change in...

From Čapek and Einstein to Protectorate-era hockey and OMD. Dive into the 90-year history of international broadcasting that shaped the image of Czechoslovakia around the world and became the voice of hope, art and political propaganda. It was...

A team of archaeologists led by researchers from the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen are investigating a sanctuary near the village of Chleby in the Nymburk region. The more than 6,500-year-old structure served as a ritual site linked to...

A damaged statue of an angel, believed to have inspired one of Karel Kryl’s best-known songs, is returning to the western Bohemian town of Ostrov. It will go on display in the local church on August 21, the anniversary of the 1968 Warsaw...

Czech Radio’s international broadcasting service was once one of the main sources of information about Czechoslovakia abroad, and it annually received thousands of letters from listeners the world over. A portion of this rich, multilingual...

A young South African sea lion, which was born at the Prague Zoo on June 5, was introduced to visitors on 19 August 2026. The male occupied the exhibit near the main entrance. The breeders gave him the name Jabulani, which comes from South...

The public can design objects for a mission to the International Space Station. It will be possible to submit proposals using the form on the Czech Journey to Space website from August 19 to September 18, 2026. What should represent the Czech...

26. 08. 2026, 18:00 – 22:00, Mandarin Oriental – Nebovidská 459/1, 118 00, Mala Strana You are cordially invited to the 11th edition of Art of Sharing, this time in the form of a summer garden party/ We’re ready for any weather...

Desde la emblemática Casa Danzante hasta la desconcertante distribución de las viviendas checas, Antonella Nicolari comparte en esta entrevista qué es lo que más la enamora de Praga, que le falta a la ciudad para terminar de asumirse como...

This year’s edition of the legendary Trutnoff Open Air music festival is dedicated to Václav Havel, marking what would have been his 90th birthday. Even when Havel was president, he was known simply as “the tribal chief” at the rock festival...

Burned synagogues and smashed shop windows are some of the best-known images of Nazi persecution of Jews. But the Nazis also systematically confiscated Jewish books, hoping to build a huge collection that could be used to provide a ‘scientific’...

Five years ago, the Mělník III power plant, once the largest coal-fired unit in the Czech Republic, ceased operation. Commissioned in 1981, it was a mainstay of the country’s energy system for decades. Its closure in 2021 paved the way for a...

Prague is already feeling the effects of a warming climate, particularly during increasingly intense summer heat waves. Jan Richter, a climate change adaptation specialist at Prague City Hall, believes the answer lies partly beneath our feet:...

Velvet Blues, a collection of 20th century stories by Czech and Slovak Romany writers, is set to be presented at October’s Frankfurt Book Fair, where this year Czechia will be guest of honour. I discussed the anthology with Karolína Ryvolová of...

From reflections in the ionosphere to the musical oasis of Interprogram. Dive into the history of Radio Prague, which connected countries and offered popular music in exchange for political proclamations. The international service of Czech...

Oscar-winning director Jan Svěrák’s comedy Pět švestek (Five Plums) will be released in cinemas in the United Kingdom this autumn under the title What a Way to Go. It is only the fourth Czech film in the 30 years since the Czech Republic became...

If these two stop-motion puppet characters get their hands on something, you can be pretty sure it will go wrong. Pat and Mat, Czechia’s famously clumsy handymen, have been entertaining audiences for five decades, and their slapstick adventures...

Wild boars are increasingly moving into urban areas across the Czech Republic. Once largely confined to forests, they are now appearing in city parks, gardens and residential neighbourhoods,scavenging for food. Reports of sightings of wild boar...

The biggest star of his time, a wild performer who had girls falling at his feet, a Czech rock’n’roll king with a tragic fate. All of this is associated with the name Miki Volek, the once-famous singer who died alone and forgotten on August 14...

This week’s solar eclipse and the Perseid meteor shower once again drew Czechs outside to look at the sky. They also highlighted something unusual about the country: Czechia has one of the densest networks of public observatories and...

Conservationists have published the results of their traditional winter survey of large carnivores along the Czech-Slovak border. Trackers covered nearly 200 routes ranging from five to 25 kilometres, confirming the presence of wolves, lynx and...

Drying wells and declining groundwater levels are affecting an increasing number of communities across Czechia. In some areas water utilities and fire crews have had to deliver drinking water to villages where inhabitants are dependent on their...

Ishita Srivastava, Research Associate Ambassador Manjeev Singh Puri, Distinguished Fellow THE ENERGY AND RESOURCES INSTITUTE (TERI) India has become a global leader in making progress on clean energy: by the end of December 2025, non-fossil...

What is the best way to enjoy a hot August evening in Prague? The Ambassador of Pakistan, H.E. Mr. Shehryar Akbar KHAN, and his spouse, Mrs. Sonia Shehryar, hosted a Mango Summer Party at their beautiful residence garden. Without a tie, but...

The 16th  edition of Prague Pride, an annual festival celebrating the LGBTQ community, took place in Prague on Saturday, 8th  August 2026. The theme for this year is “Times Are Changing” Tens of thousands of people, Czech politicians, members...

On Saturday, 15th of August 2026, the Prague Zoo will celebrate the largest land creatures on the planet. The thematic program invites you to take a guided swim with octopuses or make paper from elephant dung. On the 10th anniversary of...

Con humor, cercanía y un método en constante evolución, Ludmila Mlýnková marcó un antes y un después en el aprendizaje del español por parte de los checos. Sus manuales, nacidos del aula y de la práctica cotidiana, continúan siendo una guía...

Charles University is building its largest science centre in modern history. The nearly five-and-a-half-billion-crown Biocenter is due to open in Prague in just a few years, and the university is now looking for a world-renowned scientist to...

The European Union plans to build a small network of huge AI computing centres as part of its effort to catch up with the United States and China. Czechia wants one of them to be built on the outskirts of Prague, where České Radiokomunikace is...

The end-of-summer blues is setting upon the citizens of Prague. Festival season is over, the holidays are coming to an end, but there are still films and plays aplenty! Here are our top tips to fill your end-of-summer programme in Prague. The...

Milena Jesenská is known around the world primarily through Franz Kafka’s letters to her. Yet her own life story is just as compelling: a pioneering journalist who stood up to Nazism and paid for it with her life in the Ravensbrück...