The organ at the Church of the Assumption of Our Lady in the Cistercian Monastery in Plasy is a unique early Baroque instrument. Built in 1688 by leading Czech organ builder Abraham Stark from Loket, it had 29 registers and is still counted among the largest organs in the Czech Republic. The first large restoration [...]
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Nature Protection – Sumava
September 3rd, 2011 
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832 viewsThe importance of the Šumava National Park and Protected Landscape Area grew in 1990 with the declaration of a biosphere reserve (part of the UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere (MAB) programme) covering almost the entire Šumava region and the neighbouring Bavarian Forest National Park in Germany. The Šumava Biosphere Reserve is to preserve the typical [...]
European Florists Championship Europa Cup 2011
July 6th, 2011 srmodh 1,465 viewsLike the Olympic games, the top prestigious EUROPA CUP competition in floral design takes place once every four years in one of the member countries of FLORINT, the European Federation of Professional Florist Associations. The federation was formed in Strasbourg in 1956 under the name Fédération Européenne des Unions Professioneless des Fleuristes (FEUPF) and changed [...]
Europa Alluvial Forests – Czech Republic
May 20th, 2011 srmodh 1,152 viewsAn alluvial forest is a hardwood forest found on low levees, ridges and terraces with a high level of underground water within the floodplains of streams and rivers. This type of forest grows in areas that are slightly elevated above floodplain swamp and are usually flooded for a portion of the growing season. Formerly a [...]
20 Years of the Visegrad Group – Czech Republic
February 16th, 2011 srmodh 1,388 viewsSlovak Post issued a stamp designed by the four member countries of the Visegrad Group (also known as the Visegrad Four, or V4) on the Slovak Ambassador to V4′s initiative, to commemorate the 20th anniversary of establishment of this alliance of four Central European countries, i.e. Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. The idea of [...]
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October 20th, 2010 srmodh 920 viewsCzech post will issue a set of stamp in the craft series featuring Historical stoves of Art Nouveau and Art Deco.
