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The renowned Archa Theatre and other venues in Prague host the original Festival Alternativa, a celebration of alternative and experimental music. Performers come from all around the world and…
Dancing the waltz is an essential skill to have in Prague. The Ball Season brightens up the dark winter nights at Prague's grandest venues, including the Lucerna Palace's Marble Hall. Expect…
Prague's One World Film Festival promotes documentary filmmaking by inviting audiences of thousands to cinema screenings. With its current affairs topics it aims "to expose abuses, encourage…
The Days of European Film bring together the best of European and international feature films and shorts at Prague's Cinema Svetozor and Aero Cinema. Each year some 40 feature films and ten…
1 May is the unofficial lovers' day in the Czech Republic. Lusty couples kiss on Prague's Petrin Hill after placing flowers by the statue of Karel Hynek Macha, the 19th-century romantic poet…
BookWorld is a literary festival founded in 1995 and held at the Prague Exhibition Grounds. It gives the movers and shakers of the Czech literary scene a chance to meet foreign writers and…
Prague's Khamoro World Roma Festival brings vibrant gypsy sounds and culture from around Europe to the Czech capital. Visitors can enjoy traditional and classical music, films, theatre…
On the anniversary of Kafka's death admirers from all over the world visit his burial place in Prague's New Jewish Cemetery. After paying their respects at grave number 21-14-33, people move…
Prague Spring International Music Festival
This springtime music festival brings the world's best orchestras to Prague's State Opera House. Honouring Bedrich Smetana, father of Czech music, it opens on the anniversary of his death with…
The World Festival of Puppet Art brings the finest international puppeteers to Prague to perform and compete for awards like Best Animation and Best Actor. Prague itself is well-known as the…
A spectacular dance and music phenomena, Sensation visits ten countries every year. The show returns to Prague's O2 Arena with the theme Ocean Of White. State-of-the-art lightshows, fireworks…
There are more than 1200 choreographies to catch at Prague's Theatre Broadway during the New Prague Dance Festival. Performances by some 470 groups range from classic and contemporary to…
The Czech Republic's oldest and biggest open-air theatre festival, the Summer Shakespeare Festival hosts a series of plays, from comedies to tragedies. The performances and costumes are…
Four + Four Days in Motion is Prague's international theatre festival. It lives up to its name by treating audiences to eight days of performances, symposia, workshops and films. Each year an…
Founded in 1964, the ITF (International Television Festival) Golden Prague is a competitive annual event dedicated to dance and music on the small screen. An opening concert kick-starts the…
Prague's film students show off their creative celluloid wares at the FAMU Festival, held at the city's Academy of Performing Arts. Around 100 films, from the diminutive, at just three minutes…
The Mucha Museum in Staré Mesto is dedicated to the great artist, Alphonse Mucha, and houses some of his best work, including lithographs, paintings, drawings, photographs and personal…
Once the centre of Prague's Jesuit activities, the Klementinum was continually expanded and completed in 1726. Here Mozart performed in the Baroque Chapel of Mirrors, where classical music…
The permanent art collection at Prague Castle's Picture Gallery boasts some famous names, including Titian, Tintoretto and Rubens. Despite the thefts over the years, it remains the city's the…
Housed in the constructivist Veletrní Palace, the Prague National Gallery has modern and contemporary art collections. Three floors are devoted to the permanent collection of Czech art from…
