Large cities mostly without fireworks
There will also be no video mapping for the New Year celebration in the capital, ie a screening of the building that Prague held for the first time on 1 January 2020 instead of fireworks.
“We are waiting for the epidemic situation to develop. With regard to the current situation, we have abandoned the intended activities, “said Vít Hofman, a spokesman for the municipality.
Quiet entry into 2022
The Moravian metropolis of Brno canceled New Year’s Eve fireworks in 2016, which saves the city treasury a year of half a million crowns. “It simply came to our notice then. Of course, in the summer, the public enjoys fireworks at the traditional Ignis Brunensis show, “spokesman for the Brno City Hall Filip Poňuchálek told Práva.
Even most cities in southern Moravia do not plan celebrations. The only exceptions are Blansko, where fireworks are always held on January 1 at 6 pm on the central square of the Republic. “We are counting on actions so far, but we will see how the coronavirus measures are. We will let people know in time, “said the mayor of Blansko Jiří Crha (ODS).
Ostrava will also do without the traditional spectacular fireworks this New Year. The event was traditionally organized by the most populous city district of Ostrava-South and people came from a wide area. However, the city district is considering that the event was discovered at another time during the year when the pandemic subsided.
There will be no New Year’s fireworks in Olomouc either. “It is a decision of the city’s crisis staff and it is related to the epidemiological situation. Every year, the celebrations meant a large concentration of people, “Michal Folta, a spokesman for the municipality, told Práva.
Pilsen will be without official fireworks for the second year in a row. The central city district always held it in the early evening on New Year’s Eve and was associated with a children’s disco. “As last year, we approached him due to anti-pandemic measures,” David Procházka (YES), the mayor of this part of the city, told Práva. “Many people are probably sorry, some, such as dog walkers, on the contrary, will welcome the absence of fireworks,” said Procházka.
We have been keeping this tradition since 2004 and even covid will not discourage us from it
Mayor of Protivín Jaromír Hlaváč
Mladá Boleslav also canceled the traditional New Year’s Eve celebrations. “We have also canceled other celebrations and cultural events associated with New Year’s Eve,” confirmed Šárka Charousková, a spokeswoman for Mladá Boleslav City Hall.
He will be in Protivín
South Bohemian cities have not usually held mass celebrations of the end of the year on the square for many years. An exception is, for example, Protivín, which will again make a large fireworks display on January 1.
“We have been keeping this tradition since 2004 and even covid will not discourage us from it. This year’s fireworks will be created from 6 pm, will last twelve minutes and we will select the moving songs full of hope that will accompany it, “explained Mayor of Protivín Jaromír Hlaváč (ODS) to Práva.
In Jeseník, celebrations are also traditionally organized on January 1, in the square in front of the town hall. “It will be fireworks this time, without any other culture. So far, we are ready to do it, as well as to cancel it. This is in the event that the government sets such restrictions that it would not be possible, “said Kateřina Tomanová, director of the Municipal Cultural Facilities.
A show from Větruš
Ústí nad Labem is preparing a roughly ten-minute New Year’s fireworks at 6 pm, and will be fired from Větruše Hill. “The place was chosen so that it was visible from a large part of the city and there was no crowding of visitors,” said the municipality.
Apart from the New Year, several cities in Central Bohemia are also planning public fireworks. The largest Central Bohemian town, Kladno, for example, is preparing such a New Year’s Eve. A similar spectacle with music should also be held in Benátky nad Jizerou. Kolín also wants to organize New Year’s fireworks from 6 pm.
Třebíč will probably be one of the larger towns in the Vysočina region as far as New Year’s fireworks are concerned. She is counting on a composed pyrotechnic show for the New Year, only moved it to a new location due to the reconstruction of the central square.