Interesting events for this week

For the Christmas atmosphere, you can head to Brno, the Prague Zoo, Prague airport or the exhibition of Nativity Scenes..

Christmas in Brno
Date of event: 20 - 23 December 2010
Visitors can expect a glowing Christmas tree, a wooden Nativity scene comprising 67 pieces, including an elephant, a mini-zoo with a donkey Benedict, Father Christmas post, Moravian pig-sticking, bedtime story, live music and a live Nativity scene, selling of ornaments, furs, candles, chocolate, salty and sweet specialities, hot grog and mulled wine.

Christmas Eve in Prague Zoo
Date of event: 24 December 2010, 9:00 am
Come and wish animals! The Zoo is open until 2 pm. The Prague Zoo will arrange a special Christmas feeding. Even animals are entitled to the extraordinary gifts (food)!

Christmas excursion at Prague Airport
Date of event: 26 - 30 December 2010, 11 am – 5 pm
Prague Airport has prepared a traditional Christmas excursion for Christmas Sunday and the Christmas holidays.

Exhibition of the best Czech and foreign Nativity scenes
Date of event: 23 December 2010 – 1 January 2011
Venue: Johannes Kepler Gymnasium, Parléřova Street 2, Prague 6
There are presented more than 200 exhibits of Nativity scenes from various materials such as plaster, wax, ceramics, wood, straw, crystal, leather, alabaster, magma, Indian millet, pearl, Nativity scene painted on stones, blocks of wood, gingerbread, resins, dough, on feathers, bobbin lace making, from butterfly...and from the different parts of the world such as Germany, Italy, Malta, Mallorca, Austria, France, Vatican, USA, Croatia, England, China, Poland, Spain, Peru, Israel, Bolivia, Chile, Philippines, Slovakia, Colombia, Africa, ...

Roelandt Savery: painter in the service of Emperor Rudolf II.
Date of event: 8 December 2010 – 20 March 2011
The exhibition presents the work of Roelandt Savery in our country for the first time. It takes place at the National Gallery in Prague, in the newly renovated Schwarzenberg Palace.

Codex Gigas - The Devil's Bible in Litomyšl
Date of event: 15 - 30 December 2010
The exhibition of the Museum in Litomyšl presents a replica of a book, one of the most valuable Czech jewels - Codex Gigas or The Devil's Bible. The Devil's Bible is also known as Podlažice Codex, by the name of the monastery, where it was founded probably in the early 13th century. A legend says that the book was written within a night by a monk, who perpetrated a felony and should be walled up alive. As a satisfaction he wrote the book with the help of a devil, to which he sold his soul. It was created unprecedented book not only because it is a summary of medieval wisdom and scholarship, but also it has a respectable size. The book weights 75 kilograms and the book size is almost 1 meter x 50 centimeters. The book was owned by the Benedictines. later by Cistercians, and later it was bought by the abbot of Strahov. Before the end of the 16 century, the manuscript came into the collection of Emperor Rudolf II. In the end of the Thirty Years War in 1648, it became a prey of Sweden and has remained in Sweden to this day.