When parts of Europe quieten in a moment of remembrance at 11am this Friday, in the Czech Republic corks will pop, glasses clink and the country will resound to one collective gulp. For 11 November ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Robert Tomanek could never find a comprehensive guide to the history and culture of the Czech Republic ...

Valtice castle is home to the National Salon of Wine and forms part of a Unesco World Heritage Site. Photo Credit: Laura Del Rosso With a lively university town, dozens of castles and chateaus and a ...

The red roofs and whitewashed walls of a Czech village crown a vineyard-covered hill in Moravia - Richard Semik/Shutterstock You would swear that these rolling, green hills are in Tuscany. The ...

Easily reached by train, the cities of Olomouc and Brno have culture in spades – and few of the foreign visitors that crowd the capital A chorus of giggles breaks out in the corridor outside the ...

Moravia, approximately the eastern half of the present-day Czech Republic, was pretty much autonomous for nearly a millennia until the Communist takeover in the late 1940s. Decades on, clamours for ...