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The Prague tramway network is the largest tram network in the Czech Republic, consisting of 144 km (89 mi) of standard gauge (1,435 mm) track, [4] [5] 882 tram vehicles (one of the largest fleets in the world) [6] and 26 daytime routes, 2 historical and 10 night routes [1] with a total route length of 518 km (322 mi). [1]
Prague 2, formally the Prague 2 Municipal District (Městská čast Praha 2), is a second-tier municipality in Prague. It is co-extensive with the national administrative district (správní obvod) of the same name. As of the end of 2004, 48,918 people lived in 34,689 homes in the district.
The festival was the idea of producer Martin Pošta, curator Jan Rolník and artist Amar Mulabegovic from the group of artists The Macula. After the success of video mapping which was realized in 2010 by The Macula group and Martin Pošta on the occasion of the 600th anniversary of the Prague astronomical clock an idea of a large-scale performance in the field of light art in the Czech ...
Deutsche Bahn operated the additional City Night Line hotel-quality night services between Germany, Italy, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, and The Netherlands. Two of those, the Kopernikus and the Canopus, were designated EuroNight trains as EN 458/459. Deutsche Bahn terminated all of its own night train services by December 2016. [3]
View out towards Prague from Petřín Tower Petřín Lookout Tower at night. The Petřín Hill is roughly a half-hour walk up paths and the tower is also quite an arduous climb; however, the hill is served by a frequent Petřín funicular and the tower has an elevator for elderly and disabled people. In 2014 the tower was visited by more than ...
Praha hlavní nádraží (IATA: XYG) [2] is the largest railway station in Prague, Czech Republic. It opened in 1871 as Franz Josef Station , after Franz Joseph I of Austria . During the First Republic and from 1945 to 1948 the station was called Wilson Station ( Czech : Wilsonovo nádraží ), after the former President of the United States ...
The search for missing hiker Susan Lane-Fournier, 61, took a tragic turn after her body was found over the weekend in Welches, Oregon, an unincorporated community at the base of Mount Hood.
Most of Prague's panelák estates that were built between the 1960s and 1980s have names that incorporate the Czech word sídliště, which refers to a post-World War 2 eastern bloc housing estate. Many local names originated from names of historic villages in today's Prague area.