Related articles
PanoramaPaseky nad Jizerou - a mountain village celebrates its violin-making tradition
This is the season of summer music festivals around the country, but the
festival in the tiny mountain village of Paseky nad Jizerou is special.
This is an isolated community of little wooden cottages, clinging to a
hillside in the Krkonose Mountains up in the north of the Czech Republic.
What makes this village special is an extraordinary musical tradition,
going back nearly two centuries. The Paseky music festival, that takes
place this weekend, builds on this tradition. To give you a taste of the
festival, and the very special atmosphere of Paseky, here is David
Vaughan, with a report he compiled when he visited last year's festival.
More
MagazineMagazine
A place called America in the Czech Republic has its own Statue of Liberty!
Duchcov celebrates the 280th anniversary of the birth of the famous lover
Giacomo Cassanova and the people of Becva gather to see a Dragons Boat
Race! Find out more in Magazine with Danieal Lazarova.
More
MagazineMagazine
An invention of the twenty-first century: the three minute date. No time to
feel nervous and more than enough time if you don't fancy each other! A
wild boar stops the Eurocity train. And, a secret adrenalin skiing race
takes place in the Krkonose Mountains every spring. Find out more in
Magazine with Daniela Lazarova.
More
MagazineMagazine
Parents brave the cold to enrol their children in a prestigious language
school, standing in line all night long in sub-degree temperatures. The
New York Times goofs - those three fat ladies are not Brazilian, they are
Czech ! And "drink less so you can drink longer" - the ground
rule when you are tasting brandy all day. Find out more in Magazine with
Daniela Lazarova.
More
MagazineMagazine
Was it Homer Simpson? The guy who spent the night locked up in a pub
drinking as much beer as his body would take. Bats don't watch TV -they
live there! And the first ever gorilla baby born in captivity in the Czech
Republic has a godmother - the former first lady! Find out more in Magazine
with Daniela Lazarova.
More
MagazineMagazine
The Cow Parade, which has been to 18 cities around the world, is coming to
Prague. And, why is it risky to steal when there's fresh snow on the
ground? Find out more in this week's Magazine with Daniela Lazarova.
More
WitnessPavel Klimes - a return to a lost world
Pavel Klimes lives in the village of Pec pod Snezkou in the Krkonose
Mountains of North Bohemia. He runs a museum and information centre for
the thousands of people who visit the mountains every year. Pavel is
fascinated by the history of the region. Until World War Two the
population was almost entirely German-speaking, and when they were
expelled after the war, whole villages emptied overnight. Now Pavel is
trying to put together some of the fragments of the lost history of the
Krkonose Mountains, and part of this project is an attempt to restore some
of the neglected wayside memorials, crosses and other architectural
reminders of the region's past. Here he remembers an experience from a few
years ago, when the project was just getting under way.
More
Press ReviewPress Review
There are a wide variety of stories making the headlines in Thursday's
dailies, though most carry front page photos of Mars, which is at its
closest to the earth for 60,000 years. Pravo and Lidove Noviny have what
appears to be the same photo, except in Pravo Mars is orange coloured and
in Lidove Noviny it's red. The face of athletics star Roman Sebrle is also
splashed across the dailies, after he came second in the decathlon at the
World Athletics Championships in Paris.
More
