I enjoyed very much this journey in Prague: I visited twice this town in the seventies and I have good memories of this town ( a beautiful concert of Leos Janacek music in a small theatre of of Mala Strana).
Twenty years after the fall of the Soviet Union the Czech Republic is living a new period, but Glenn Spicker, a nostalgic man has created the Museum of the Communism to remember this time of the Czechoslovaquian Republic (for example many statues of worker). Then we met Ivan Havel, the brother of Vaclav Havel who was a dissident and organized the publishing of the forbidden books (there was a great debate about society and liberty).
As London as been built around th Thamses and Paris around the Seine, Prague has ben built around the Vlata River (in German the Moldau): Jiri Peknice lives a restored barge on the river. We meet also Miroslav Nechvatal, a fisherman of Prague who enjoys fishing in the river. Then we known the River Brigade and Jan Tykal who knows all the fishermen. The River has a new duty : the investigation of a shipwreck in the river: Paola Statnikova explains that the ship was working in the river between the two World Wars: but unfortunately the ship will remain in the river.
In Prague the people enjoy music and dancing: the students of the colleges have a dancing class and then there is a great ball at the Lucerna Palace.
Prague has ben the capital of the music in the 18th century as explained Eva Paulova of the National Museum of Music: Mozert, Liszt and Beethoven came to Prague to compose music.
We meet Stanislava Jirku , a mezzo soprano who has come to Prague and will sing in the National Theatre th role of Mercedes in the opera "Carmen" de Bizet: this opera was played in Prague in 1880 and only ten years later was accepted in France.
Besides the music (Every person of Prague is a musician) there are the puppet theatres: an 300 years old tradition: Pavel Truhlar (Marionety Society) explains that the theatres were so poor taht they decided to use puppets instead of actors; so the puuppet theatres became famous till now.
In her walk through Prague Sophie asked Richard how they say beer in Czech language and he answered "pivo" (in slovak also pivoand and Polish Polish piwo): The Czech beers are famous in all the world: first of all the Pilsner Urquell made in Plzen since 1842 (but it's not a Prague beer), then the Staropramen beeer, the second beer producer of the Czech Republic: the brewery was founded in 1869.
But we meet Martin Matuska , a brewer who produces every day 1.000 liters of traditional beer for the pub of the brewery.
Then we meet Jiri Marecek of the Brewery Kozel who explains that his modern brewery can bottle 40.000 bottles of beer in each hour: they export beers to 50 countries.
I enjoyed the encounters of Sophie with Richard Rezek (the old Trabant, the Letna park), with Buric Frantisek (the canard à la bohémienne), with Michal Dushinsky, the rabbi ( the talk of the Jewish culture, the synagogue and the Jewish cemetery), with Vaclav Cerny (the undergrounds of Prague) and with the hockey player Jakob Koreis of the Sparta Prgue: very nice encounters with very kind Czech men and women.
Twenty years after the fall of the Soviet Union the Czech Republic is living a new period, but Glenn Spicker, a nostalgic man has created the Museum of the Communism to remember this time of the Czechoslovaquian Republic (for example many statues of worker). Then we met Ivan Havel, the brother of Vaclav Havel who was a dissident and organized the publishing of the forbidden books (there was a great debate about society and liberty).
As London as been built around th Thamses and Paris around the Seine, Prague has ben built around the Vlata River (in German the Moldau): Jiri Peknice lives a restored barge on the river. We meet also Miroslav Nechvatal, a fisherman of Prague who enjoys fishing in the river. Then we known the River Brigade and Jan Tykal who knows all the fishermen. The River has a new duty : the investigation of a shipwreck in the river: Paola Statnikova explains that the ship was working in the river between the two World Wars: but unfortunately the ship will remain in the river.
In Prague the people enjoy music and dancing: the students of the colleges have a dancing class and then there is a great ball at the Lucerna Palace.
Prague has ben the capital of the music in the 18th century as explained Eva Paulova of the National Museum of Music: Mozert, Liszt and Beethoven came to Prague to compose music.
We meet Stanislava Jirku , a mezzo soprano who has come to Prague and will sing in the National Theatre th role of Mercedes in the opera "Carmen" de Bizet: this opera was played in Prague in 1880 and only ten years later was accepted in France.
Besides the music (Every person of Prague is a musician) there are the puppet theatres: an 300 years old tradition: Pavel Truhlar (Marionety Society) explains that the theatres were so poor taht they decided to use puppets instead of actors; so the puuppet theatres became famous till now.
In her walk through Prague Sophie asked Richard how they say beer in Czech language and he answered "pivo" (in slovak also pivoand and Polish Polish piwo): The Czech beers are famous in all the world: first of all the Pilsner Urquell made in Plzen since 1842 (but it's not a Prague beer), then the Staropramen beeer, the second beer producer of the Czech Republic: the brewery was founded in 1869.
But we meet Martin Matuska , a brewer who produces every day 1.000 liters of traditional beer for the pub of the brewery.
Then we meet Jiri Marecek of the Brewery Kozel who explains that his modern brewery can bottle 40.000 bottles of beer in each hour: they export beers to 50 countries.
I enjoyed the encounters of Sophie with Richard Rezek (the old Trabant, the Letna park), with Buric Frantisek (the canard à la bohémienne), with Michal Dushinsky, the rabbi ( the talk of the Jewish culture, the synagogue and the Jewish cemetery), with Vaclav Cerny (the undergrounds of Prague) and with the hockey player Jakob Koreis of the Sparta Prgue: very nice encounters with very kind Czech men and women.