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Delta Airlines are launching a new service between Prague and New York. So far, this route has only been served by Czech Airlines.

Irony of fate. On the same day when restorers brought back the statue of the Astronomer to the Old Town Astrological Clock, a gust of wind broke a centennial tree at Novotného Lávka and its branch damaged the sculpture of St. Barbara.

Prague hotels are some of the most badly-affected hotels in Europe on account of the current economic crisis. While in other European capital cities, hotel occupancy has dropped on average by three percent, the number goes as far down as ten percent for hotels in Prague, Dublin and Rome.

Like last year, the Royal procession carrying the coronation jewels is going to head from Prague to Karlštejn castle. The event is held between 6th and 7th June by the association of villages of the Karlštej Region and with the support of the Czech Tourism government agency.

The original three hundred year old baroque sculptures of St Cosmas and St Damian from the group of sculptures Christ Salvator have just been removed.

Sixty-seven years after the assassination of the Deputy Protector for the German Reich, Reinhard Heydrich, a worthy memorial to the people who took part in operation Anthropoid has finally been unveiled.

Without doubt Prague is the most popular tourist destination in the Czech Republic, loved by foreigners and recently there is a comeback of Czech tourists.

St Vitus Cathedral was re-consecrated on its completion on 12 May 1929, that is eighty years ago. Its foundation stone was laid on 21 November 1344, which means that the building of this gem among Gothic churches took, with some breaks, 585 years.

Interview with Miroslava Šmolíková, head of archaeological collections of Prague City Museum, on the occasion of opening of the exhibition “Cesta do hlubin města - 12 nej… objevů pražské archeologie”.