Prague – embankments: A heliport will be added, it could be for fishermen. Program 2022
Primarily small cultural events fills program spring, summer and autumn seasons on both banks of the Prague embankments. While these have been cut short of various government measures related to coronavirus in the past two days, this season will be able to start in full swing. Thus, Praguers will be able to visit without restriction the 20 reconstructed dungeons, which the Prague City Hall at the end of 2019 made available to the public.
Rods with you
“After two years, the raids related to the covid are finally waiting full season, “ enjoys Jan Chabr’s councilor for property (TOP 09). “The operators of the unique dungeons will finally be able to launch the complete program and show the full potential of these award-winning spaces.” So what’s going on?
In addition to traditional and popular farmers’ markets, there will be a variety of food events. It will take place on June 1 Children’s Day, before the summer holidays, children will appreciate the festival ARENA of the Forman brothers. The floodplains will also become part of the popular effect spectacle within Signal Festival.
They will also become a part of of the Mayors of Prague, which is waiting for the 109th year this year. Both banks of the Vltava also adapt for wine festivals and fishing festivals. You will complete fishing piers for fishermen. According to the administrator of the embankment, Dušan Sahula, one should be created on the right bank of the Vltava at mouth of the river Botičthe other on the left bank of the Vltava at mouth of the Motol brook.
“In the past, fishermen were here, so we would like some in Prague background, “ Sahula noted that the stretch of embankment between Jirásek and Palacký Bridge, where the mouth of the Motol brook is located, should also be the last one still waiting for reconstruction. According to Sahula, the project should be evaluated within a year.
Heliport for hospital needs
The municipality also finishes with preparing to build a floating heliport. He will be found at Výtoň pod Vyšehradem. “She will be situated behind the railway bridge, therefore it will not affect the functioning of the embankment on the Rašín embankment in any way, “said Chabr. “The heliport will be created for the needs General teaching hospitals. It will provide transportation of emergent patients“The councilor added.
Floating pool
In the past, Jan Chabr made no secret of the fact that he would like to build a so-called floating pool on the Vltava. “Once upon a time, the spa on the Vltava was in the form of wooden formwork laid on the water, which was flow-through. We would like to apply either floating membranes to the Vltava, which we would launch with tap water, or a boat with a swimming pool, “he told Blesk Chabr in 2019. What does the idea look like after three years? It didn’t end on the ice.
“The project has been suspended by the covid and funds as the city budget is more tight. Therefore, we had to reconsider the project in order to get to a more realistic option, “ Chabr approached. “At the moment, we have private operators who provide their own boats that would serve the purposes of the pool. However, they do not think about the location we had selected, that is under the Vyšehrad rock. They would rather see the pool closer to the center in the location near the Interkontinental Hotel, ie in Prague 7 or 8. But nothing has been signed yet, “the councilor explained.
Memory Museum XX. century
The capital was founded in 2019 by the Museum of Memory XX. century, which in the words of the councilor m Hana Kordová Marvanová (STAN) to remind „obeats, horrors and heroes of the totalitarian period. ”However, the museum’s premises, which will be located in the Pážat house in Hradčany, are still being prepared, which is why the museum uses various places for exhibitions to present its activities. One of them is i naplavkaspecifically dungeon No. 17 on Hořejší nábřeží, where it is located panel exhibition O activities and the future of the museum, which perhaps in 2024 should function physically in the house Pážat.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a week from 5 to 12 April discussions on the relationship between history and the present. “To deal with history honestly means to seek the truth – the truth has been repeatedly silenced in the last century and locked in dungeons of all kinds. AND unfortunately this is not the past – in the underground ‘dungeons’ today, Ukrainians also sit in fear for a bare life, but also dozens of Russians arrested for the courage to tell the truth publicly about the brutal war their country is waging, “added Hana Kordová Marvanová, councilor and chairwoman of the museum’s board of directors.
This is how the round window of one of the dungeons was installed on Rašínovo nábřeží. (2019 David Winter
At the beginning of the 2022 season, Councilor Jan Chabr and Hana Kordová Marvanová were present at the Prague embankments.
Author: Tonda Tran