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THE GREEN ROOF AT THE DJ RESERVATION WON!
The results of the Green Roof competition, which has a ten-year tradition, were solemnly announced yesterday at the Great World of Technology in Ostrava-Vítkovice. The winner of the competition was the green roof on the new gorilla pavilion – the Dja Reserve – at the Prague Zoo. During the evaluation, the judges focused on the…...
WORLD GORILLA DAY AND CELEBRATION OF 60 YEARS OF GORILLA BREEDING IN THE PRAGUE ZOO
On Saturday, September 23, the Prague Zoo will celebrate World Gorilla Day together with the 60th anniversary of the breeding of these largest primates in the world. Visitors can look forward to an extraordinary program in both pavilions – in the Dja Reserve, which was opened last year and is inhabited by a family group,…...
5th year of the Olga Havel Foundation Goodwill Run
On Tuesday, September 12, the Olga Havlova Foundation Goodwill Run charity race took place for the fifth time in the Hvězda nature reserve in Prague 6. More than 500 male and female runners took part in it, thanks to which they managed to collect a record 658,800 crowns to help families in need. A popular…...
“It’s the king of strains”: Žatec hops make UNESCO list
The northern town of Žatec and surrounding hop-growing landscape have just been granted UNESCO World Heritage status, becoming the 17th Czech entry on the list. Žatec is called Saaz in German and its distinctive Saaz hops are what have earned it this accolade. But what makes these hops so special? I spoke with the Prague-based…...
Czech scientists develop miniature “weather station” for space
Czech scientists have developed a small weather station for space. The gadget tracks streams of charged particles moving in space and the first is already in orbit. Differently charged particles, which scientists call “space weather”, stream through space. They are described as “solar wind” or “electro-magnetic storms”. Most of them don’t reach Earth because it…...
Ostrožská Lhota named Village of the Year
The village of Ostrožská Lhota in the Zlín region has been named “Village of the Year” for 2023, ahead of Hrádek from Moravia-Silesia and Dolní Poustevna from the Ústí nad Labem region. The winner was announced this past weekend at a folk festival in the Moravian town of Luhačovice. Representatives of Ostrožská Lhota, a picturesque…...
Working towards doing things together: New Czech ambassador to Canada outlines his goals
Martin Tlapa will begin his new posting as Czech ambassador to Canada in Ottawa on September 25th. The agenda items he wishes to tackle during his posting range from boosting tourism and student movement between the two nations, driving further business development amongst Czech and Canadian firms, and working closely to build strong connections with…...
Painter and engraver Max Švabinský born 150 years ago
Valuable paintings, stained glass windows in Prague’s St. Vitus Cathedral, the first official portrait of President T. G. Masaryk and a series of postage stamps – these are just some of the works by Max Švabinský, one of the most important Czech painters of the last century. Švabinský was born in September 1873 in Kroměříž.…...
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