Skip to content

Czechology

Czech Curiosities, Culture & Traditions

  • Traveling
    • Top Destinations
    • Castles and Churches
    • Routes
    • Cities
      • Brno
      • České Budějovice
      • Český Krumlov
      • Hluboká nad Vltavou
      • Hřensko
      • Klentnice
      • Litomyšl
      • Mikulov
      • Olomouc
      • Ostrava
      • Prague
      • Telč
      • Znojmo
    • Regions
      • Moravia
      • Bohemia
      • Silesia
  • Culture & Science
    • Art
    • Customs & Traditions
    • History
    • Holidays
      • All Souls’ Day
      • Christmas & Advent
      • Easter
      • Fašank
      • Hody
      • New Year
      • St. Martin
      • Other significant days
    • Movies
    • Music
  • Gastronomy
    • Recipes
      • Bread
      • Christmas
      • Desserts
      • Easter
      • Main courses
      • Other
      • Poppy Seed
      • Side dishes
      • Soups
    • Eating & Drinking
  • General & Trivia
    • Other
    • People
  • Archives
  • Shop
    • Czech Cookbooks
    • Czech Books for Children
    • Czech Language Books
    • Travel Guides
  • About

Category: General & Trivia

  • Home
  • General & Trivia
  • Page 3
20 facts you (maybe) didn’t know about Czech Republic
General & TriviaOther

20 facts you (maybe) didn’t know about Czech Republic

by PetraApril 12, 2024October 6, 2024

Here are 20 facts that you maybe didn't know about the Czech Republic. (more…)

Legendary Czech Actresses, vol. 2
Culture & ScienceMoviesPeople

Legendary Czech Actresses, vol. 2

by PetraMarch 17, 2024January 25, 2024

They were the stars of Czech cinematography, they enchanted everyone with their talent and beauty. Here is a second part of the article  Legendary Czech actresses. (more…)

Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, First President of Czechoslovakia
General & TriviaPeople

Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, First President of Czechoslovakia

by PetraMarch 7, 2024September 3, 2025

Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk is a name that resonates in every talk about the history of Czechoslovakia and, subsequently, the Czech Republic. (more…)

Jiří Trnka, Founder of Czech Animated Movies
ArtGeneral & TriviaCulture & SciencePeople

Jiří Trnka, Founder of Czech Animated Movies

by PetraFebruary 24, 2024January 25, 2024

Jiří Trnka was a prominent Czech visual artists and one of the founders of Czech animated movies. His illustrations accompanied several generations of children. (more…)

Věra Čáslavská, Queen of Gymnastics
General & TriviaPeople

Věra Čáslavská, Queen of Gymnastics

by PetraJanuary 17, 2024July 17, 2024

Věra Čáslavská was a Czech artistic gymnast known not only for her many international and Olympic titles but also one brave gesture. (more…)

Silly Walk Day Brno 2024
General & TriviaOther

Silly Walk Day Brno 2024

by PetraJanuary 7, 2024

Czech humor is quite similar to the British one, so it comes as no surprise that Monty Python's International Silly Walk Day is so popular in the Czech Republic. This was the Silly Walk Day…

Ferda Mravenec – Story of the Hardworking Ant
ArtLiteratureGeneral & TriviaCulture & ScienceBooks

Ferda Mravenec – Story of the Hardworking Ant

by PetraJanuary 3, 2024November 3, 2023

Ferda Mravenec or Ferda the Ant is a Czech cartoon and literary character by Ondřej Sekora. Generations of children have known him to be a hardworking ant who always does the right thing. Though his…

Celebrities of Czech Heritage
General & TriviaCulture & SciencePeople

Celebrities of Czech Heritage

by PetraOctober 14, 2023December 10, 2025

You know many of them, maybe all of them. They are your favorite actors, musicians, models and other and these famous people have one thing in common - they are the celebrities of Czech origin.…

10 Most Famous Czech Models
Culture & SciencePeople

10 Most Famous Czech Models

by PetraAugust 9, 2023December 3, 2025

They come from a small central-European country but they made it internationally. Here are the 10 most famous Czech models. (more…)

Antonín Kalina, hero who saved hundreds of Jewish children
PeopleCulture & ScienceHistory

Antonín Kalina, hero who saved hundreds of Jewish children

by PetraAugust 3, 2023June 29, 2025

Have you ever heard of Antonín Kalina? Probably not. He is a little known hero who saved 1200 Jewish children from the inhuman conditions of the Buchenwald concentration camp. (more…)

Posts pagination

Previous 1 2 3 4 … 7 Next
Copyright © 2025 Czechology Theme: Blog Room By Artify Themes.