Prague Castle first exhibited gifts, which the Czech President Petr Pavel received on his travels or receiving visits. Among them are products of high artistic value, but also children’s pictures or gold medal of Czech hockey players. People can see gifts from Friday every day in the Rožmbberg Palace at the Prague Castle, reports TASR.
As the castle pointed out, Gifts are symbolic and political at the level of high state officials. Their exchange is also enshrined in the protocol when visiting the heads of states. It is not only a personal gesture, but the selected thing symbolizes the country from which the statesman comes from.
In the Rožmber Palace, people will see, for example, a piece of a real tank with a painted tank with the Ukrainian flag and the Czech inscription “Pravda Vítězi”, which Pavel received from President of Ukraine Volodymyr Greenský, or a necklace of Scythian gold from the chairman of the Ukrainian Parliament Ruslan Stefanchuk. Visitors can also see the framed gold medal, which Czech hockey players won last year at the World Championship, a jersey with signatures of Czech Olympians and much more.
“We offer a unique view of the role of gifts in the world of diplomacy and local traditions. The range of objects that the President receives is really wide. This spring we will add a few other attractions in the spring, then we always want to change the exhibition at the beginning of the year to allow visitors to return, ” She announced the cultural and program director of Prague Castle Veronika Wolf.
The exhibition entitled Gifts for the President is far from the close to the first to be opened by Prague Castle this year. According to the director, however, many other cultural activities are already preparing other AS. It was the revival of the culture and the larger opening of the Prague Castle to the public was one of the priorities that Pavel gave when he took the position of Head of State.
