Czech fairy-tales, cartoons and puppets

Many visitors of Prague say that it looks like a fairytale. But it was not the charm of Prague or the highest density of châteaus in the world which led to a fairy-tales boom. It was rather the Communist Regime (1948-89) which forced many talented artists to fled to fairy-tales making as other genres were deemed to political. Thanks to this circumstance has Czechoslovakia became a fairy-tale powerhouse. Although this blog is about city of Prague - this post is rather an introduction to the Czech (fairy tale) culture. On the other hand, it is also a good inspiration for some original Czech souvenirs as you may see and buy a lot of fairy tale characters in Prague as well. Furthermore, since the end of 2016 is the Czech and Slovak puppetry listed on the UNESCO World heritage list as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity which may hint to a possible renaissance of Czech puppetry.

Kašpárek is a typical character of Czech puppetry (more about its history here),
which was added to the UNESCO list of intangible world heritage