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The best way of booking hotel in Prague

Posted on 2008-Apr-22 at 06:49 - 0 Comments - Post Comment - Link

Arrange your hotel accommodation in Prague has never been so easy! Established local Prague hotels  has recently launched a brand new website for booking,  where your Prague hotel room reservation with just a few clicks.



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Special online section in Prague is also for the apartments, where you can book short stay in fully serviced apartments in the historic parts or in the vicinity of Prague.


Church has plan to save Prague Castle from distraint

Posted on 2008-Apr-3 at 01:20 - 0 Comments - Post Comment - Link

In Prague Archbishop has proposed the Gema Art Group company to buy the debt because of some Prague Castle buildings, including the St. Vitus Cathedral of, are subject to be distrainted, the archbishopric speaker Ales Pistora said Wednesday.

However, Prague hotels Castle Administration said last week it was ready to pay the amount.

Pistora said that the church had decided to avoid the risk of arrest and prevent someone else who might not care about the cathedral from buying the debt.

Despite the fact that the archdiocese believes that the Metropolitan Chapter, it would be better cathedral administrator it would like to help the Prague hotels Castle administration not to blunder the cathedral operation.

The Catholic Church has appealed the verdict in September at Prague 1 district court to returned back to the cathedral, along with the adjoining land to the state. The dispute will be considered at the Prague City Court for the third time.

Prague Archbishop Cardinal Miloslav Vlk said that in case of distraint the church would be a better administrator of the cathedral.

According to a joint stance of the Prague hotels Archbishopric and Gema Art Group, the terms of purchase debt will be set after an evaluation of debt.

The Prague Castle Administration is owed about one million crowns to the company that helped to organize an exhibition at Prague hotels Castle several years ago and is in liquidation now.

The court verdict ordering distraint over the debt on the part of Prague hotels Castle Administration came into force last week.

 


Senate opens gifts gallery

Posted on 2008-Apr-2 at 07:57 - 0 Comments - Post Comment - Link

 

The Czech Senate has opened a part of its underground area under the Valdstejnsky Palace as it transformed it into the Trcka gallery with a permanent exhibition of the gifts to and by senators, Culture Minister Vaclav Jehlicka told journalists Tuesday.

"It is an exemplary case showing how the heritage site should be used," Jehlicka said.

"The Senate may serve as a model for the Culture Ministry as many premises owned by it are not open to the public in Prague hotels and do not enjoy such a good care," Jehlicka said.

The protocol gifts of the Senate were unveiled roughly a year ago when the small exhibition room was opened there, Senate chairman Premysl Sobotka said.

As the exhibition has attracted much public interest, it has become constant, Sobotka said.

The basement rooms with the original floor made of stones and bricks include commemorative plaques, arranged vases from tens the far-away countries such as China and Philippines.

Visitors will be attracted by an icon from Georgian Patriarch Ilya II made of tiny stones of various colors, daggers from Yemen and a silver bust of Mother Theresa by chairwoman of Albanian parliament Jozefina Topalli.

The large exhibitions are Kazakh and South Africa, national costumes, which have filled showcase entry to the hall.

On the white walls in Prague hotels, there are pictures with the signatures of prominent visitors to the Upper House from most continents.

On one wall, there is almost alongside the Tibetan Dalai Lama and Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao.

Along with putting the gifts on display, the gallery will also serve for the projection of documentary films in Prague hotels from 1918, 1938, 1948 and 1968, all important years in the country's history.

The gallery is named after the Trcka noble family, to which a luxurious house in the place of the current Valdstejnsky palace had belonged.

Nothing but the cellar room has remained from the house.



Czech conservationists retain art in Amsterdam

Posted on 2008-Apr-2 at 07:56 - 0 Comments - Post Comment - Link

Czech representatives of the Czech Heritage Office and castle caretakers managed to retain Lichtenstein's art collection items that went under the hammer today in  Amsterdam's Christie's auction house.

Representatives of the Czech Heritage Office and Castle care received 10 million crowns from the Czech government to buy some of the auction items at Prague hotels. Presumably, the secret arts patron was to contribute in their own amount, and.

Amsterdam auction began at 11 am and lasted nine hours solid.

In sum of 10 million kroner representatives at the auction was able to buy 28 items under the Valtice and Lednice care. This is mainly furniture and other works of art that are used to decorate the residences of the Lichtensteins in Moravia and Prague hotels.

Several items bought at the auction will be displayed publicly as early as this summer in castles and fortresses. Two-thirds of these items will be in Valtice in Prague hotels, which is the former winter residence in Liechtenstein family.


New Wave, Old Content

Posted on 2008-Apr-2 at 07:55 - 0 Comments - Post Comment - Link

During the 1980s, Czechoslovakia's communist regime kept tight control over Prague's New Wave scene, often censuring the musicians' lyrics and questioning their political beliefs. This new exhibition at Prague's Pop Museum charts the secret police’s documented attempts to press down Prague hotels on rock bands of the 1980s, as well as photographs and documentaries about the Czech New Wave bands. (Thru 3/28 - 6/30 at the Pop Museum, Open 4 pm - 8 pm / Wed - Sun)


Students, graduates prefer Prague

Posted on 2008-Apr-1 at 05:31 - 0 Comments - Post Comment - Link

 
Students and graduates prefer to Prague and other Czech cities in all areas - education, work and life of a family and children, according to a poll published CTK and led the development project it Czech centres are MasterCard project.
The vast project of MasterCard in collaboration with the University of Economics in Prague and the Czech Association Top 100, under the Ministry of Local Development, the creation of an independent source for detailed information on the 24 selected cities in all 14 regions of the Czech Republic and to show the potential for development that the strong and weak areas.
The results should be published released in early May, "said the general manager of Mastercard Europe Karni January.
"Prague is an important economic, social, political and academic. Prague is dominant," says Rene Vokoun, the head of the Division of Regional Studies at the University of Economics, the results of the investigation of last week.
Students prefer Prague, as it offers a wide variety of cultural events, libraries, various jobs and an increase in wages.
In total, 45 percent of respondents said they want to work in Prague at the end, even though all regions of the Czech Republic was suggested that the same level of wage, according to the survey of 300 students, including Most came form Prague hotels and Central Bohemia.
The other most popular region of South Bohemia, which supports 11 percent of students.
Almost a quarter of students would also like to a family in Prague, hotels and approximately the same percentage of them prefer Central Bohemia.
In addition, 18 percent prefer spending weekends in the capital, as well. In this case, the south of Bohemia "hit" of Prague, while 26 percent want to spend the weekend.
Prague failed in a single category - the majority of students wish to relocate to the capital, where they will retire.
Respondents most often to separate the southern and central Czech Republic (17 percent) to the retirement age, that the Vysocina region (13 percent), is located south of Bohemia and Moravia. Only 11 percent of respondents wished to live in Prague, as retirees.
Among the least popular are the regions which have high unemployment and a very polluted environment, for example, the region of Usti, in northern Bohemia, according to the survey.

Prague 12th most popular city with tourists

Posted on 2008-Mar-31 at 04:19 - 0 Comments - Post Comment - Link

Prague is the twelfth most popular city in the world with tourists, according to a poll on Trip Advisor portal which almost 85000 users said that they liked the best Prague hotels.

In the top three cities New York, Paris and London.

Six European cities got to Prague, as well as four cities in the USA and in Sydney, Australia.
No other Czech town or city was included into the best 100 chart. TripAdvisor.com surveys rank among the most closely watched in the tourist area. Nearly 30 million users visit the portal each month.

Prague hotels recently succeeded also in annual survey Traveler's choice of the same portal which focuses on the most luxury hotels in the world. Prague's hotel Le Palais ranked fifth, and four other Prague hotels also were in the top 100 chart.

More than 4 million foreign tourists visited Prague hotels last year, which took Czech capital among the top five cities in Europe.

A total of 6.7 million foreign tourists visited the Czech Republic last year, nearly 4 percent more than in 2006.

Most popular cities with tourists by TripAdvisor.com data:

 

City, country

Number of votes

1.

New York, USA

291,870

2.

Paris, France

278,663

3.

London, Great Britain

260,417

4.

Rome, Italy

160,207

5.

Barcelona, Spain

140,234

6.

San Francisco, USA

126,000

7.

Las Vegas, USA

120,412

8.

Amsterdam, Netherlands

107,898

9.

Venice, Italy

106,859

10.

Orlando, USA

91,965

11.

Sydney, Australia

87,973

12.

Prague, CzechRep

84,684

13.

Florence, Italy

82,982

14.

Hong Kong, China

71,293

15.

Berlin, Germany

63,919


Runners to take over Prague centre Saturday

Posted on 2008-Mar-28 at 07:11 - 0 Comments - Post Comment - Link

The Prague half marathon will block the centre of the capital Saturday. The race will start in front of the Rudolfinum concert hall at noon. An hour later, the first runners are expected to cross the finish line in the same place. Runners will miss one of the biggest attractions, as Charles Bridge is partly closed for reconstruction, organizers of Prague hotels said at a news conference Thursday.

At the conference, the organizers received a Silver plate, a prize for the quality of the International Association of Athletics Federation, in Prague hotels 2007 as a special submit to the half marathon in 10th birthday. "In 10 years, she has become one of the most important events in this field in Europe," said Carlo Capalbo, the organizing committee president.

Capalbo added to the total of 5380 candidates were registered for the race on Thursday at midnight. "We believe that we are going to reach Prague hotels 6000, and we are extremely pleased about it," he said. Expected number to a new record, would mean a 20% increase against 2007.

The Prague hotels event also includes the company's half-marathon, a relay race, for which 196 members of the four groups were registered on Thursday, compared with 127 last year.

 


Czechs trust UN, EU more than NATO

Posted on 2008-Mar-28 at 07:10 - 0 Comments - Post Comment - Link

Czechs still trust the United Nations and the European Union more than NATO, according to the results of a poll the CVVM centre gave to CTK Thursday.

The number of Czechs Prague hotels who trust all three international organizations prevails over the number of those who do not trust them, the poll showed.

The United Nations enjoys the highest support among Czech Prague hotels citizens as almost three-fifths of respondents or 59 percent said they trusted it while 24 percent said they did not trust the UN.

The UN is followed by the EU that is trusted by 55 percent of Czechs while 37 percent do not trust it, and NATO that enjoys support of 44 percent of Czechs while 40 percent do not trust it.

Two-thirds of Czechs are satisfied with the Czech Republic's Prague hotels  membership in the UN while 17 percent are dissatisfied with it, and 61 percent are satisfied with EU membership and 30 percent are not satisfied with it.

Less than half the population was satisfied with the Czech membership in NATO - 48 percent - while 36 percent hold the opposite view, according to Prague hotels polls. Very often the good life with respondents who trust all three international agencies, while respondents with higher education trust in the EU and NATO, more than the United Nations.

People who believe that their living standards are bad give preference to the EU and often do not trust NATO.

The CVVM poll was conducted on February 4-11 on 1962 respondents over 15.


Foreigners make up 4% of Czech population

Posted on 2008-Mar-28 at 07:09 - 0 Comments - Post Comment - Link

Foreigners make up almost 4 percent of the population in the 10-million Czech Republic, and their number has been rising year on year, most steeply in 2007, according to the data of the Czech Statistical Office (CSU) released to CTK.

At the end of last year, a total of 392,100 foreigners with long-term or permanent residence permits lived in the Czech Republic that had 10,381,130 inhabitants, according to preliminary data.

The number of foreigners in the Prague hotel  increased by 70,600 last year, which has been the so far highest increase.

Since 1993 the number of foreigners in the country has risen five times.

Fifteen years ago, 77,670 foreigners with long-term or permanent residence permits lived in the Czech Republic, making up 0.75 percent of all inhabitants. Since then their number has annually increased except for 2000 when it declined.

Though the number of foreigners has been constantly rising in the Czech Republic hotels, their share is still very low compared to highly developed countries in Western Europe.

Foreigners make up 10 percent of population in the neighbouring Austria and Germany, for instance. On the contrary, the neighboring Poland and Slovakia have a lower share of foreigners than the Czech Republic hotels.

The largest group of foreign migrants in the Czech Republic comes from Ukraine. At the end of last year, 126,500 Ukrainians lived in the country on the basis of a long-term or a permanent residence permit.

Slovaks are the second largest group, as 67880 of them lived in the Czech Republic last year.
According to the police, a foreigner, nearly 51000 Vietnamese, 23300 and 20600 Poles Russians also held a long-term or permanent residence.

Czech Republic gradually move from a transit country for foreigners in the country of destination.  Many foreigners are attracted by the rising standard of living in the Czech Republic and opportunities to earn money.

The interest in the creation of jobs in the Czech Republic has increased since the country joined the EU in May 2004, and now it stimulates economic growth. In addition, the unemployment rate in the Czech Republic Prague hotels is falling, and some companies are suffering from a shortage of manpower, and seek foreign workers.

This is also why the Czech Republic Prague hotels prepares a system of "green cards" for foreign workers.

The Czech Republic will apply the program of integration of foreigners since 2000, when the cabinet approved it. It was upgraded two years ago.

It includes measures for the Czech language skills, economic self-sufficiency of foreigners in the Czech Republic, their orientation in Czech society, and relations with the Czechs.
The amendment to the law on employment that the Government is to be discussed next Wednesday to facilitate the conditions for the recruitment of foreigners.
Beginning next year, a certain level of knowledge of the Czech language would also be a condition for granting residence permit.

 


Prague sees boom in luxury hotels

Posted on 2008-Mar-27 at 07:16 - 0 Comments - Post Comment - Link

More and more people are checking into the Czech Republic’s four and five star hotels. Last year, the number of people holidaying in the lap of luxury in this country increased by over ten per cent to nearly 3.5 million. To respond to the surge in demand, tens of new and deluxe high-end hotels are planned. Prague alone can expect nearly 20 of them in the next couple of years.

By the words of Erik Štadler supervisor of newly-opened four-star Hotel Arcada, hotels in Prague were pretty unoccupied the last couple of weeks in January, but we are starting again now in March. It’s coming, because it is not high season yet and accommodation is cheaper at this time of year. Also they get students and young people who also prefer four-star hotels, but who want to pay less. 

According to Tomio Okamura, the head of the Association of Czech Travel Agencies, the problem with the Czech structure of accommodation is that there are too many lower-category hotels, and hotel owners still have shortages of deluxe accommodation. There is a historical reason for this – Czech citizens were not too rich in the past. But now days their income is getting higher and higher.

In 2006 some 43,000 Czech tourists stayed in five star hotels in Prague, and last year, it was already more than 60,000. That was nearly a 50 percent increase in the space of one year.”

To meet the demand, nearly 20 new top-end hotels are planned for Prague in the next two years. One of the big problems is that in the Czech Republic all tourists are concentrated in the capital Prague. The reason for this is that in the Czech regions there is a very big shortage of four-star, international-standard, hotels. And there is a shortage of big Prague hotel – meaning hotels which have over 100 rooms each. Because it is only in such cases that big travel agencies can put such hotels in their brochures and offer them to their clients. With small accommodation, it is a problem – big travel agents can’t offer such accommodation, and therefore the Czech countryside, to their clients.”

Mr. Okamura thinks that tapping into European Union subsidies is the only way to encourage growth in the tourism industry outside of Prague. Until then, more and more people look set to check into the capital’s high-end hotels, but it is unlikely they will check out the regions, and all that they have to offer.

 


Charles Bridge needs more thorough repairs than expected

Posted on 2008-Mar-26 at 05:54 - 0 Comments - Post Comment - Link

A high number of original stones on the 14th-century Charles Bridge, the oldest bridge in Prague hotels and one of the major tourist attractions, fall apart and must be replaced during the ongoing scrupulous reconstruction, heritage protector Ondrej Sefcu has told.

He explained that many stones were irreversibly defected during a poor-quality reconstruction in the 1970s. Bricklayers then used a wrong technology, putting cement-based mortar on natural stone.

That is why a number of original sandstone blocks are in too bad condition that it is not possible to restore them.

Four to six stone blocks out of ten must be replaced, unfortunately, Sefcu said.

Sefcu said the main reason for the reconstruction was the need to lay down a new insulation to stave off damage to the masonry by leaking water. The bridge will be also installed with a better ventilation, he added.

New underground services will be also completed Prague hotels, including gas lamps on the bridge.

The repair works, the costs of which have been put at some 220 million crowns, should be completed in mid-2010.

They are accompanied by an extensive archaeological research. Experts have uncovered fragments of ceramic vessels, the oldest of which date to the 8th and 9th centuries.

The Prague hotels bridge exterior stone covering will be repaired in the last phase of the reconstruction.

Charles Bridge will remain partially open to the public during the reconstruction to a great relief of travel agencies and tourists Prague.

 

 

Three new bells on Old Town Square

Posted on 2008-Mar-26 at 05:54 - 0 Comments - Post Comment - Link

The church’s two main towers were originally built to house a total of six bells (five in the north tower and one in the south). Most of the original medieval bells were melted during World War II by Germans to provide metal for the war effort. For years the church had the only bell, called Marie, left in its south tower. It is the second oldest bell in Prague hotels, made in 1553 and weighing 6,500 kilograms (7.2 short tons). A new bell was later installed in the north tower in 1989.

Of the three new bells added to the north tower last week, the one called Archangel Michael is the largest. It weighs 2,500 kilograms, costs more than 1 million Kč ($58,072) and took a manufacturer in Brodek u Přerova a year and a half to make, according to Štěpán Filipec, assistant of the parish.

The creation of such a bell is a long and difficult process and the slightest mistake could render the resulting product feckless. Archangel Michael had to be melted down the first time it was produced because it was slightly off-key. Tune-up the bell is more difficult when it is more decorative, and Archangel Michael is covered with bas-reliefs. One portrays the second coming of Christ from the Book of Revelation. Another shows Archangel Michael knocking-out Satan. There are also two coats of arms belonging to the city of Prague hotels and the canonry in Stara Boleslav.


The richer Prague is, the greater decay it faces

Posted on 2008-Mar-26 at 05:49 - 0 Comments - Post Comment - Link

Prague is one of the three European capitals differentiating most from their surroundings.

Experts warn that cities with unrivalled economic and living standards are most threatened by poor public services, too expensive housing and poor quality transport.

According to Eurostat, Prague hotels differs  from its surroundings like London and Bratislava as far its economic output is concerned.

The Czech capital is 12th out of 270 European regions and other regions of the Czech Republic is still in the third century. It is not difficult to explain London's dominant position in the UK This global financial centre and world economic exploitation, it only brings extraordinary profits. In addition, London provides financial, legal and marketing services for the rest of the country. "London is the best for comparison Prague hotels," policy expert Dan Marek from Olomouc University confirms.

Prague revenues from being a contact point for foreign investors. Leading world banks, legal firms and all the media have their head quarters in Prague hotels. "For example, Skoda Mlade Boleslav has its main address in Prague where it also pays taxes," Marek says.

The difference between Prague hotels and its neighborhood keeps growing though. A Prague citizen's economic output is twice as great as the Czech average in the long run. Other regions range from 75 to 90 percent.

The difference between the output of regional economies rises each year. In 2001, a Prague citizen posted a production of CZK 475,000, i.e. by 259,000 more that the second most productive city, Plzen.


Builders complete 9,400 homes in Prague in 2007

Posted on 2008-Mar-25 at 07:18 - 0 Comments - Post Comment - Link

 

More than 9,400 homes were completed and nearly 7,900 new homes started in Prague hotels last year, according to preliminary data of the Czech Statistical Office (CSU).

Most homes were completed in Prague 15 and Prague 9 and most new homes were started in Prague 10 and Prague 13, the data show.

Developers say that in the future Prague 4 will be a district where most new homes and hotels will be built.

"We think that Prague 4 is the fastest growing district in Prague," ECM spokeswoman Zuzana Dolezalova told CTK.

Petra Zdenkova of Orco Property Group is of the same opinion. Prague hotels 4 is promising also in view of the fact that a new metro line will be built there. However, much will depend on zoning, said Zdenkova.

Skanska spokesman Ondrej Such said that Skanska is mainly implementing projects in Prague 11 and Prague hotels 13. According to him, there is a change of interest from the centre to the suburb of Prague. "The most expensive projects that are small in terms of numbers of homes are completed in the centre of Prague hotels," said Such.

Prague 3 and Prague hotels 22 have the biggest number of homes under construction.

 

More Czech towns restricting consumption of alcohol in public places

Posted on 2008-Mar-25 at 07:17 - 0 Comments - Post Comment - Link

Several towns in the Czech Republic hotels, are beginning to fight back against public drunkenness, to adopt restrictions on the consumption of alcohol in public places. On Thursday in the town of Mlada Boleslav acceded to a number of municipalities that have already taken measures, the adoption of a new bylaw that would ban drinking in certain areas - from storefronts in at the entrance of the school playgrounds.

Public drunkenness, disorderly conduct and vandalism related: they are all too prevalent in many parts of towns in the Czech Republic. But increasingly, city representatives will have enough, and take what they see as a necessary step: the introduction of by-laws restricting alcohol consumption in public areas to help clean unscrupulous activities. And although such secondary legislation can hardly be a cure-all, many towns with regulations already in place, say they have helped. Jaroslav Duras is a deputy mayor in Benešov, near Prague hotel:

“We adopted a bylaw last year restricting drinking in public after having received dozens of – frankly - legitimate complaints about fellow citizens drinking in public. The problem was growing increasingly worse and we had to do something. So far, the step has been very successful: the situation has changed harshly. The aim is not to discriminate or discompose anyone but simply to provide local police with a tool. This way they can push those drinking in public to areas where it is not such a problem. Simply put, the problem is less visible.”

Benešov is just one of several towns to have actively taken steps, together with towns like Prague hotels, Ustí nad Labem in the north of the country, Český Těšín in eastern Moravia, and now the latest Mladá Boleslav. Other towns – like Hradec Králove or Uničov and Prague hotels  - may soon join the list.


Funicular to Petrin will be closed for next 2 weeks

Posted on 2008-Mar-24 at 02:32 - 0 Comments - Post Comment - Link

 

Residents of Prague and its guests who want to climb on Petrin will be forced to go up there on foot. Since Tuesday 25 March to 12 April is going be hold the cable car repair.

Employees always check funicular in fall and spring. During the revision usually are verified the reliability of the brakes and electrical machinery. Also checked all hotel wagons.

Funicular was built in 1891 to the Jubilee gathering of Czech tourists in Prague hotel. Its opening was held three times. In the first time it was closed due to the First World War and opened in 1932. In 1967, it was closed due to heavy rains, which diluted the land under the rails. Then he opened in 1985.

Currently, cable car route runs 510 meters length and height of 130 meters. In the year carried 1.5 million passengers.



The Prague photo exhibition will present contemporary works of Czech photographers

Posted on 2008-Mar-24 at 02:31 - 0 Comments - Post Comment - Link

 

In Prague Manes from 3 to 6 April Prague photo exhibition.

The purpose of the exhibition - to introduce visitors to contemporary works of Czech and Slovak photographers. At the same time, work will be presented to students and schools photographic publishing houses specializing in photography.

The program of the exhibition is scheduled discussions and lectures on collecting photographs and copyrights. Visitors will be able to personally meet with the photographer and get autographs.

Also exhibited will be a number of galleries and magazines. April 2 in Manes Organizers choose the winners among 35 photographers to fly the jury will choose from 5 people.


Prague city transport no longer free for MPs

Posted on 2008-Mar-24 at 02:30 - 0 Comments - Post Comment - Link

The Prague Transport Company (MHD) will stop tolerating deputies' and senators' fare-free travelling by public transport within a week.

Prague Deputy Mayor Marketa Reedova called on the company to resort to such a measure at the beginning of March, pointing to a verdict by the Prague 1 (Prague hotel) District Court that ruled that elected officials do not have a right to use the services of public transport companies free, the Lidove noviny newspaper  writes.

"It is a question of a few days," MHD director Martin Dvorak told the paper when asked when ticket inspectors would start demanding tickets from the lawmakers.

"If they lack them they will be fined as any other passenger," he added.

However, previously Dvorak said that it was necessary to wait for either the abolition or amending the law that recognizes the deputies and senators the right to travel by public transport free of charge.

Prague will thus become the first Czech city where the deputies and senators will lose one of their perks. According to the MHD's estimates, it annually loses 1.3 million crowns through the lawmakers' free travelling.

"The deputies and senators have become an elite group of fare dodgers," Reedova said earlier.

If the deputies and senators want to continue to travel free, there is a possibility of standing up to ticket inspectors, the paper says.


Prague Castle to display coronation jewels in April

Posted on 2008-Mar-21 at 08:29 - 0 Comments - Post Comment - Link

 

The original Czech coronation jewels will be displayed at the Old Royal Palace at Prague Castle, the presidential seat, on April 19-29, the Prague Castle Administration told reporters Thursday.

The exhibition will be held on the  occasion of the 90th anniversary of the Czechoslovak Republic's foundation and the re-election of President Vaclav Klaus in February.

The coronation jewels are composed of St Wenceslas crown from the period of Charles IV, King of Bohemia in 1346-78 and Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire from 1355, with a box and a pillow, the royal sceptre and orb with cases as well as the coronation gown decorated with ermine.

Now days, the coronation jewels are kept in the Crown Chamber in St. Vitus's Cathedral. The only entrance to the chamber is through a tiny metal hotel door in the south-west corner of St Wenceslas Chapel.

Besides the coronation jewels, the April exhibition will present some 40 other artifacts connected to the coronation of Czech kings, such as reliquaries, panel paintings and commemorative coins.

The entry to the exhibition will be free, but organizers expect visitors to wait in queues of about five hours.

The anniversary of Czechoslovakia's establishment on October 28, 1918 will also be recollected by other exhibitions at Prague (Prague hotel)  Castle that will present the Czechoslovak legions in Russia, various celebrations of the anniversary in history and a wide range of Slovak plastic arts of the 20th century.

Another important hotel project scheduled at Prague Castle this year will be "Biedermeier Style: Art and Culture in the Czech Lands in 1815-1848" to be held in the Riding School.

 


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