Christmas starts early in the Baroque chateau and hospital in Kuks as over 140 stands with traditional wares – ceramics wreaths and Christmas decorations and a wide array of food and drinks – fill the courtyard the Church choir of Dvůr Kralové will perform in the Church of the Trinity and the Musica per Legni flute ensemble will give a concerts at 10:00 and 12:00 running on a special schedule from Pardubice 6 the town square will be filled with traditional Christmas crafts and decorations and activities for young and old 5 (presumably to join the Mikuláš and Čert show) a living nativity scene and gospel singing the Baby Jesus post office will be in town there will be caroling around the tree and on Dec the town’s musicians will sing Silent Night in many different languages A living nativity scene will put you in a contemplative mood on the day before Christmas Christmas markets will fill all three of Brno’s large squares in the center of town with fun for kids and grown-ups Moravian plum pies and a winter garden offering grilled specialties starting with dried prunes on a skewer with bacon and ending with goose and cabbage A new market is scheduled for the Hotel Thermal Spa in Karlovy Vary and plenty of children’s activities will take place around the giant Christmas tree and nativity scene will add to the festival atmosphere the precious Pernštýn square in Pardubice will fill with sound of music you can sing Christmas carols on the square There will be a merry-go-round and a children’s train along with a nativity scene with live animals and stands full of pretty traditional items  Live a real Czech country Christmas market in the Wallachian folk museum All of the museum’s employees will become housekeepers craftsmen or parts of the Mikuláš and Čert duo The houses will be decked out in Christmas style and in each you can try out a different activity such as chocolate or candle making baking Christmas cakes or making decorations out of paper or straw The traditional Christmas market starts on Dec 7 the square below the ancient castle of Loket will come alive with a real medieval Christmas crafts market Permeated by the smell of mulled wine and mead a great koláč tournament and a fencing school for the kids while parents look on with a glass of mulled alcohol of their choice And you need not fear the cold: warm up by the fire in the Knight’s Hall tavern Experience Christmas with a Rococo flair in the charming baroque town of Mnichovo Hradiště on Saturday In addition to a traditional Christmas festivities there will be carriage rides and a living nativity scene just like in the times of the great general Wallenstein the battlements of the Karlštejn Castle will resound to the music of the Advent concert as groups of musicians and dancers fill the square jewelry and other gifts will ensue in the square Wash down Christmas treats with Karlštejn wine visit the exhibition of nativity scenes in the Bethlehem Museum with mechanical nativity scenes and the Karlštejn royal Nativity with figures of the ten most important Czech rulers The climax of the day will be the Czech Christmas Mass by Jan Jakub Ryba in the Knights Hall at 17:00 took place here in 1294 and the Viennese have been careful not to let the tradition die out the city is host to not one but eight Christmas markets including the gaily lit Enchanted Park in the Rathauspark next to the Town Hall Christmas Village in the Maria-Therezia Platz and the Artisan Market in front of the Schonbrunn Palace the nostalgic Old Vienna Market in the beautiful Freyung Square Vienna Although Bratislava’s Old Town is tiny compared to Prague’s the city makes full use of it come Christmastime with over 100 stalls filling the Franziskan Square You can buy all kinds of traditional Slovak gifts like beeswax candles carved wood and heavy sheepskin coats while fortifying yourself with traditional food like cabbage soup and bread with lard and cracklings folk dances and performances for children and adults alike  A few hours’ drive across the border in the land of people who take their Christmas markets dead seriously you’ll get your fill of Gebrannte Mandeln (candied as Lebkuchen and Magenbrot (both forms of soft gingerbread) or Eierpunsch (an egg-based warm alcoholic drink) while walking among stalls full of handmade toys Nussknacker (carved Nutcrackers) and Zwetschgenmännle (figures made of decorated dried plums) Nuremberg at the Christmas market in the center of the erstwhile capital of Poland you will find jewelry made of Baltic amber furs and decorations for a much better price than in the Czech Republic Your morning coffee deserves a great companion. 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This webpage uses Cookies and JavaScript in order to work properly We strongly recommend to enable those technologies in yur browser In case of wrongly displayed content you can request necessary information at e-mail address wwwadmin@mzv.cz Ghana Deputy Minister of Health Tina Gifty Naa Ayeley MENSAH visited the Czech Republic to discuss the delivery of a rescue system vehicles produced in Hagemann company in Opava accompanied by the Director General of the Ghana Rescue Service Technical Adviser to Ghana Finance Minister Mrs.Joyce Awuku-Darko OSEI Kwaku Kyei Agyeman Ampromfi and accompanying delegation arrived in the Czech Republic at the invitation of the Hagemann company to negotiate delivery of 300 vehicles of rescue system built on Mercedes-Benz chassis.The visit was preceded by a meeting of Mr when the issue was discussed at the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Finance of Ghana In line with the one district-one factory government policy the project should also include the construction of an assembly plant to produce around 250 rescue vehicles in Ghana with the first 50 pieces being made in the Czech Republic Ghanaian delegation visited the Czech manufacturer of street sweepers sanitation trucks and waste collection vehicles where they discussed the possibility of supply of these vehicles given that waste treatment and waste management is one of the most pressing problems of contemporary Ghanaian government Another point of the program was a visit by Kofola a.s in Mnichovo Hradiště where delegates discussed the possibility of a Czech investment in a non-alcoholic beverage plant The working program of the delegation was launched on 12 November 2018 by a visit to the Institute of Clinical and Experimental Medicine (IKEM) in Prague a short presentation of the functioning of IKEM successes and plans for the future was prepared for delegates Honorable Deputy Mensah raised the question of the possibility of sending Ghanaian cardiology surgeons to IKEM and the possibility of using kidney donors from the Czech Republic for Ghana patients While the first question was a positive answer the Czech kidney donors should prefer recipients from the Czech Republic and only if no recipient in Czech Republic is available the organ can be applied to other recipients Due to the lack of qualified nurses in the Czech Republic the Ghanaian side was also offered the opportunity to provide their nurses The visit to IKEM was completed with a tour of several departments Due to request of Honorable Deputy minister Mensah the Delegation subsequently moved to the dispatching center of Ambulance Meditrans s.r.o where delegates learned about the functioning of their rescue system from the initial acceptance of the request to the transfer of the patient to the destination Ghanaian delegation at Ambulance Meditrans The afternoon program started by visiting Aero Vodochody a.s in order to find the possibility of cooperation between the Ghanaian and the Czech defense industry especially in the area of air support to the Ghana peacekeeping corps Aero Sales Director Petr Kalaš presented briefly the company its products and its achievements and highlighted the recently completed development of the new Czech jet aircraft L-39NG About this product have already expressed interest some foreign customers and could be a suitable aircraft for the Ghana Air Force too After visiting the manufacturing and assembling lines the delegates briefly discussed the possibility of supply air ambulance but it was rather a question to the company LET Kunovice with appropriate modification of their aircraft L-410 The last meeting on 12 November 2018 took place at the Czech Export Bank (ČEB) a.s. with the participation of the Head of the Export Finance Division Tomáš Hadžega and several other ČEB representatives representing the Export Guarantee and Insurance Corporation (EGAP) The main topic of the meeting was the financing of the project with ČEB ready to provide the full financing in the form of a loan with deferred maturity welcomed the offer of ČEB and said that due to the competitive offers from Germany the tender procedure is managed by a government selection panel that decides on suppliers a decision is expected before the end of 2018 so that any installments can be put into Ghana's budget for 2019 a full-day program was organized for the delegation in the form of a visit to the Hagemann production plant in Opava after a short presentation in the main building inspected the workplace of the check-in control delegates looked at various types of van superstructures which were fitted to different types of chassis and expressed great satisfaction with the tour Honorable Deputy Mensah suggested that due to the time and the anticipated difficulties associated with setting up assembly plant in Ghana it would prefer to purchase 200 pieces of rescue vehicles with delivery by the end of 2019 a tour of the main Mercedes-Benz branch in the Czech Republic was scheduled in Prague 4 where delegates were assured that the delivery of the first 50 chassis was probably 3-4 months from the order and another 150 pieces were then able deliver within 6 to 8 months The final point of the work program of the delegation was the admission to the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic by the Minister Mgr After welcoming the delegation to Minister Vojtěch Honorable Deputy Mensah introduced the Minister to the members of her delegation informed him of the intention of the Ghanaian Government to acquire 200-300 rescue vehicles and gave him very positive impressions of meetings in the Czech Republic Followed by a statement of the director of the Ghana Rescue Service that the purchase of ambulances is only the first step which should be followed by a assembly plant of rescue vehicles in Ghana with the transfer of production technology who accompanied the delegation in the Czech Republic then informed the Minister about other activities of Czech companies in the field of health care This is in particular the recently completed project of construction of 10 policlinics in the central part of Ghana by Vamed Health Projects as well as the work of doctors from the Czech Republic providing professional and free assistance in the treatment of clefts She also drew attention to the Ghana Health Ministry's offer to provide trained nurses to meet the needs of the Czech Ministry of Health and to organize a PROPED presentation show for Czech pharmaceutical and healthcare companies in Ghana Admission to the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic The Minister thanked the delegation for the visit the expressed interest in Czech products and the incentives for mutual cooperation He expressed the hope that this project will be successfully implemented and will be the beginning of deeper bilateral relations between the two ministries 1st place: Family house of the Šístkov family 1st place: The family house of the Šístek couple 1st place: Family house of 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