A Youtube video of a building demolition in the Czech Republic went viral, with more than 300,000 views since June 29, before being removed and reposted. Six buildings belonging to former clothing ...

Prague has more than its fair share of odd statues on public view. Some contemporary ones were designed to make the viewer ponder, while others reflect the city’s long and peculiar history. A few look ...

More than 350 years after it was looted from Prague by the Swedish Army during the Thirty Years’ War, a famous medieval text will return to its native land, though only temporarily. The Codex Gigas ...

For many women in the Czech Republic, the Easter season, known as Velikonoce, is not their favorite time. Easter Monday is the national holiday, and traditionally it is a time when women get whipped ...

Writer Franz Kafka lived almost his entire life in Prague, and the city often made an appearances in his stories and novels. It is not difficult to find the places where the author lived and worked: ...

Whether you have just burst onto the cooking scene or you have been in it for a while, there is a good chance that you have heard mention of an instant pot. There is a lot of hype surrounding this ...

The Norwegian Embassy in Bucharest has published a fairly long statement about the Norwegian Child Welfare Services (Barnevernet) on its webpage. It’s probably the same information other Norwegian ...

Czechia has a more extensive ore and uranium mining history than you may know, with ore mining dating way back to the Stone Age. While both ore and uranium mining are entirely abolished within this ...

Prague, April 29 (ČTK) — Czech pop star Iveta Bartošová ended her life this morning by jumping into the path of an oncoming train in the district of Uhříněves on the outskirts of Prague, her husband ...

Lucie Turnerová from the Charles Bridge Museum and boat company Prague Venice helped us get to know a bit about the history of the landmark. She describes the Charles Bridge as “the epicenter of Czech ...

Among the names for Prague is the Magic City, and not without reason. Places connected to legends are all over the city, and throughout the centuries everyone from alchemists to vampires are supposed ...

Anyone even remotely familiar with Czech literature will know Ivan Klíma and his work. The author of more than 40 novels, short-story collections, plays and books of essays, Klíma, born in 1931 in ...