A project by the Czech conceptual artist Kateřina Šedá aims to bring back normal life to the town of Český Krumlov, which is suffering from overtourism. She is paying families with children to live in the city-centre and lead normal everyday lives. The town, with its 12,000 inhabitants is annually visited by over two million tourists, which has resulted in the city centre becoming something of a ghost town.
In this series Radio Prague selects an image highlighting a news event of the past seven days.
Prague to finish reconstructing Kafka’s house in May
Underwater remains of Prague’s first bridge explored by researchers
The 1946 US operation that proved a propaganda coup for Czechoslovakia’s Communists
Why is it so hard to remove a Czech president?
Major renovation planned for Prague’s Masaryk train station