The skull of Saint Zdislava, a priceless 800-year-old relic, was stolen this week from a glass case in the Basilica of St Lawrence and St Zdislava north of Prague. The theft has stunned clergy and worshippers alike, raising fears over the fate of an important religious and historical treasure.

Šumperák is the nickname of a type of house built in Czechoslovakia mainly during the 1960s and 70s. Ostensibly modernist, even avant-garde, with its distinctive first storey angled roof and balcony, the story of the Šumperák is in fact far more layered and complicated than may originally appear.

For decades, Wolfgang Beltracchi fooled the art world with paintings he passed off as lost works by famous artists. Now the German former forger is exhibiting his own paintings in Prague.

Cities and municipalities in the Czech Republic and Slovakia are gaining a new ally in the fight against climate change. Using freely available European satellite data, Czech and Slovak researchers have developed an app that will help local governments to better respond to drought, overheating, and the decline of urban greenery.

The biggest classical music festival in Czechia gets underway on Tuesday as the 81st edition of the Prague Spring International Music Festival opens with Bedřich Smetana’s Má vlast, performed this year by the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra. This year’s line-up features leading international orchestras and soloists alongside contemporary music events under the Prague Offspring banner. I spoke to the festival’s artistic director Josef Třeštík about this year’s highlights, Artist-in-Residence Barbara Hannigan, and why contemporary music remains an important part of Prague Spring.

Last winter Nico Moro managed to walk from Třebíč all the way to the Olympics in Milan. He covered more than 920 kilometres on foot in 31 days and gained many fans and supporters. Less than three months later, he already has a new goal – Fribourg, Switzerland.

Czech soccer has made international headlines for all the wrong reasons, after the Prague derby between Slavia and Sparta was abandoned when Slavia fans stormed the pitch – and attacked Sparta players. Slavia were just moments away from lifting the league title but will now face disciplinary action. I discussed the situation with Slavia fan Yon Pulkrabek; he and his sons, aged 14 and 11, have been season-ticket holders for several years.

Filip Šír from the National Museum in Prague has spent years researching into a series of remarkable wartime broadcasts made by the much-loved Czech duo Jiří Voskovec and Jan Werich.  Their satirical sketches and songs, some of them in English, were broadcast on shortwave from the United States and formed an important part of the campaign to fight Nazi propaganda and indoctrination with humour. Until recently they had been all but forgotten.

František Moravec, Jan Kubiš, Adolf Opálka and Jaroslav Krátky are well-known names to Czechs. They are paratroopers, who escaped to Great Britain where they were trained by the RAF and parachuted into occupied Czechoslovakia to fight the Nazis in WWII.  Now they are linked by a very special memorial – an alley of linden trees in the Vysočina region, south-east of Prague.

A new exhibition is currently underway at the Náprstek Museum of Asian, African and American Cultures in Prague, marking 200 years since the birth of Vojtěch Náprstek, a remarkable 19th-century figure who was not only the founder of a museum, but also an innovator, politician and early advocate for women’s rights.