I FOUND Prague stuffed full of tramcars and buses. The trams were for its million-odd inhabitants, few of whom possess a car; the buses were for the tourists flowing in in droves from Hungary, Poland, ...

If you ever had a strong desire to immerse yourself in a foreign culture, then the city of Prague is the place to go. Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. It is the 14th ...

But whether the four or five paparazzi shouldering in here realize it or not, they've just photographed one of their country's most important cultural celebrities. Fifty-one-year-old William Lobkowicz ...

What do we care about a city in Europe a hundred years ago? Why should we take note of its cultural life, its music, poetry, painting and decorative arts? Well, no reason, really, unless we actually ...

When Josef Sudek collected the keys to his new studio at 30 Ujezd, a quiet courtyard in Prague's Mala Strana district, the vendor – the artist Karel Laube – had one question: "Why here? No one in ...

Though stained glass was being made for church windows in Europe during the 12th century, it was not until the rise of Venetian glass makers in the 13th century that other items, such as vases and ...

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As reported in Prague Morning, archaeologist Tomáš Zavoral of the East Bohemian Museum in Pardubice said the roughly ...