Shrovetide at Veselý Kopec will take place on Saturday, 30.1.2016. The residents of Studnice near Hlinsko will take part in the traditional procession, which is part of UNESCO world...
A miraculous healer and scientist for some, a deceiver for others. The controversial alchemist Edward Kelley (1555-1597) fascinated the people around him not only with his alchemist tricks,...
The life of St. Zdislava who was born in the 13th century in Moravia and continued to live in Northern Bohemia, is an extraordinary example of a life for others. Her family life with her...
July
He who lies in the summer, wanders with a beggar‘s sack in the winter.
It usually drizzles on the Saint Mary Magdalene‘s Day as Saint Magdalene mourns over her...
Josef Gočár, our most prominent author of mainly cubist and functionalist buildings, was born in a family of a brewer in a small village of Semín near Přelouč on 13th March 1880....
March
Little grass in the meadow, little money in the purse.
If Saint Joseph looks down kindly, spring will be ushered in on his day.
April
If the fodder is already...
Matthias, a notable representative of the after-classical Gothic, was born in around 1290 in the French Arras. In this country he is well known as the first builder of the Cathedral of St....
The Society of Jesus, Societas Iesu (abbreviated to SI or SJ – Jesuit Order), is one of the largest and most signi cant monastic orders in the Roman Catholic Church. It was founded on...
Very few of our artists can be said to have achieved real global recognition. And Alfons Mucha remains one of the most signi cant to this day. This July will see the seventyfth anniversary of...
This year we celebrate an important anniversary for the Prague archbishopric. 670 years ago, the original Prague bishopric founded in 973 was promoted to the status of an archbishopric. It was...
The proclamation of the independent Czechoslovak state in October 1918 resulted in the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The territory of Slovakia, which had hitherto belonged to...
If someone tells you this in Prague, you’re sure to know instantly which horse they mean. The monumental statue of St. Wenceslas on Wenceslas Square has been and will continue to be a...