CzechTourism - Newsletter - March

“Blik blik” Festival of Light

Days when Pilsen will shine brightly...

During one particular weekend in March, the capital city of beer will also become the capital city of light and art in public areas. Pilsen will be lit up thanks to ten artists from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, France, Germany and Japan. Come and join them! You will experience a remarkable walk from the Lochotín Amphitheatre to villas and a housing estate in Lochotín. In addition to light installations and buildings, you will witness mappingcontrolled by visitors themselves. The route is only three kilometres long and is by no means demanding, not even for your wallet – all the installations can be seen for free.

Date: March 18 - 19, 2016

Type: Festival of Light

More information: http://www.czechtourism.com/e/light-festival-plzen/

Easter in castles, châteaux and in open-air museums

Enjoy Easter celebrations, markets, fairs and other events.

Would you like to celebrate Easter in the Czech Republic? Simply choose from a wide range of events. In towns you will mostly find traditional markets and craft fairs. Indoor and open-air museums will introduce you to the folk traditions associated with Easter and how Easter used to be celebrated in the past. Easter is an interesting experience in castles and châteaux, for example in the Silesian Ostrava Château in Ostrava or Křivoklát Castle, which you can get to from Prague by steam locomotive. Easter is also full of fun at Thurn-Taxisů at Loučen Château. You are also invited to witness the Easter welcoming of spring at Berchtold Château or the Easter Fair at Dačice Château.

Date: March 25 - 28, 2016

Type: Easter celebration

More information: http://www.czechtourism.com/e/easter-in-castles/

“Tvarůžky” Cheese Festival in Olomouc

Try this special cheese, which you can smell a hundred miles away but tastes just great.

Do you know the old saying, the worse the cheese smells, the better it tastes? Try the smelly cheese of Olomouc and discover for yourself that this is true. In mid-April, all lovers of really good and very "fragrant" cheese will meet in Olomouc. The Olomouc cheese called “tvarůžky” or in other words “syrečky” of Loštice is a regional specialty protected by the trademark of the European Union. It is ripened cheese made of skimmed milk with a low fat content. The people of Moravia are so proud of it that they dedicated all of the municipal festivities to this cheese. The Olomouc festival of “tvarůžky” will be accompanied by Hanakia folklore groups and a presentation of local mini breweries so festival goers can wash down this piquant cheese.

Date: April 16, 2016

Type: Cheese festival

More information:http://www.czechtourism.com/e/olomouc-lostice-cheese/

700 years of Charles IV – Celebrations at Kašperk Castle

The 700th birthday of Charles IV will also be celebrated at the castle, which was built by the King in order to defend the so-called Golden Path.

Kašperk Castle will commemorate 700 years from the birth of Charles IV, who Czechs call the "father of the country”. There will be jousting, dancing and feasting, just like in the Middle Ages, Kašperk Castle looks very romantic in the picturesque countryside of the Bohemian Forest, however, the reason for its construction was purely pragmatic. It was established by Charles IV in order to protect the economically important Golden Path on the border with Bavaria. For this reason, the castle towers offer beautiful views of the Bohemian Forest foothills. Kašperk Castle stands 886 meters above sea level, being the highest situated royal castle in the Czech Republic. Take a trip here and look around its surroundings the same way his Majesty Charles IV used to. 

Kašperk Castle is one of many places, which were more or less influenced by Charles IV during his reign. He founded for example the spa town of Karlovy Vary, and also of course the iconic Charles Bridge over the River Vltava in Prague. There are many places similar to Karlovy Vary in the Czech Republic; some of them may be viewed here.

Date: April - September, 2016

Type: Charles IV

More information:http://www.czechtourism.com/e/charles-kasperk-castle/

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