If you thought you have been everywhere in the Czech Republic, think twice. Or rather look at these pictures and make mental notes which places you have yet to visit. They are beautiful.
CZ: Krasne fotky Ceske Republiky! Vsadim se, ze jste nebyli vsude!
(by Herbert Novotny)
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Czech Republic is suffering with floods again this spring and it’s pretty bad. The following video is comes from Frydlant, a Czech quaint (or used to be quaint?) town in the north of the Czech Republic.
CZ: Ceska Republika opet trpi vaznymi zaplavami a to vsude. Nasledujici video pochazi z Frydlantu, malebneho mestecka na severu Czech.
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Here is a fun activity. See how well do you know the geography (locations of particular cities) of the Czech Republic. I am not even going to tell you my final score because it would be quite embarrassing.
Take the quiz right here (click here).
CZ: Vite presne kde lezi Hradec Kralove? Nebo Decin? A co treba Bruntal? Otestujte si sve zemepisne znalosti a uvidite, jak na tom jste. Ja jsem dopadla docela krusne….ani vam neprozradim kolik bodu jsem sklidila, ponevadz to neni nic moc.
Test muzete najit zde (kliknete zde) - take muzete cele webove stranky prepnout do cestiny, jestli chcete.
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The Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape is a lesser known part of the Czech UNESCO heritage, which is spread over the vast area of a beautiful Southern part of Moravia. It contains a romantic château (Lednice), a picturesque village (Valtice) and the largest park in the country. ‘Since Lednice was first passed into the hands of the House of Liechtenstein in the mid-13th century, its fortunes had been tied inseparably to those of that noble family.’ The current area of Lednice is laid out in a beautiful English garden style, covering almost 300 kilometers squared. Not only can visitors encounter unique types of trees and flowers but the park is also filled with serene ponds, luscious meadows, fancy sculptures and even replicas of ancient Greece ruins. [click to continue…]
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Remember when we were voting on 7 wonders of the Czech Republic? Well, the votes have been counted and the results are in. Here they are:
3. Charles the Fourth (1316 – 1378)
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Imagine you get invited by your acquaintance for a cup of tea and when you come to his house, there are strange paper bags hanging all over the walls. First, you realize you don’t know this person enough and you wonder if you should start slowly backing out of this very strange place and call the police. Then you decide to be brave and take a closer look at those walls and you realize they are covered with barf bags!
We are talking here about Milos Kubista, a Czech dude from Plzen who owns a collection of more than 1,500 air sickness bags (some framed) from all over the world. It took him close to 40 years to collect all those ‘valuable’ items and the numbers are still growing. [click to continue…]
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We all know what the Seven wonders of the world are. But what would you pick to be the seven wonders in the Czech Republic? The Czech citizens are able to vote until the end of this month and the results will be announced on the 12th of June. There are five categories to pick from:
I personally vote for: Kutna Hora, Otto Wichterle (because he invented contacts and I am blind), Alphonse Mucha, Czech beer, Czech cubism, Tomas Bata and Emil Zatopek.
Cast your vote here (click here).
CZ: Pozor! Cesi maji moznost zaperlit a vybrat sedm divu Ceska. Vybira se z peti kategorii a vysledky budou vyhlaseny 12.cervna na programu CT1. Co byste vybrali vy? Ja osobne volim: Kutnou Horu, Ottika Wichterle (jsem pekne slepa), Muchu, ceske pivo, cesky kubismus, Batu a Zatopka.
Oficialne muzete volit ne webovkach Ceske televize.
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Slavonice is a quaint little town of 2,500 inhabitants, just a few miles away from the Austrian border. Normally quite the quiet place, the town is now buzzing with excitement since the Slavonice choir was chosen to compete at the international music festival in Canada.
More of this exciting news (and how you can help) can be found here (click here).
CZ: Slavonice je malinke mestecko lezici na hranicich Moravy a Rakouska, ktere obyva kolem 2500 obyvatel. Normalne tu panuje pokoj a klid, ale v posledni dobe tu panuje naprosta vzrusuici atmosfera. Slavovnicky detsky sbor byl totiz vybran, ze bude reprezentovat Ceskou Republiku na Mezinarodnim hudebnim festivalu v Kanade.
Vice si o teto vzrusujici zprave prectete v blogu Zuzany Kulhankove (kliknete zde).
Also, here is a neat YouTube video which introduces the kids choir as well as the town of Slavonice:
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The Czech city of Frantiskovy Lazne has the wittiest meteorologists. Read this board which is hanging off of the Bismark observation tower.
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CZ: Jak se zda, tak Frantiskovy Lazne maji velmi vtipne meteorology. Prectete si nasledujici nastenku, ktera je povesena hned vedle jakehosi vseznameho lana.
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One of my Facebook friends posted this while I was aimlessly browsing FB. Since I am a Prague girl I found these little facts quite interesting ;0)
CZ: Jestlize pochazite z Prahy (nebo jste pouhym milovnikem Prahy) a ztravili jste v Prazskem metru nekolik hodin denne, tyto fakta vas bodou zajimat.
PRAGUE METRO – SURVIVAL CHAMBER FOR 325,000 PEOPLE!!
The Prague Metro serves about 1,5 million passengers a day, which makes it the seventh busiest metro system in Europe.
But it is a piece of history as well. When communism collapsed in 1989 revolution 14 stations with names reflecting Communist ideology were changed to be politically neutral. “Lenin station” was renamed „Dejvická“ after a surrounding neighbourhood. „Anděl“ station was known as „Moscow Station“ – until now you can find there several pieces of propaganda art promoting Soviet-Czechoslovak „friendship“ (Czechoslovakia was occupied by Soviet army in 1968..)
INTERESTING FACTS
The line A of the Prague metro is a giant “survival chamber” built for thousands of people in the case of a nuclear attack. You can see the giant metal doors at every entrance. [click to continue…]
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