Reception to celebrate the Czech National Day
02.12.2015 / 14:13 | Aktualizováno: 28.02.2018 / 17:56
On November 26, 2015 the Embassy organized official the celebrations remembering the Czech National Day and the 26th aniversary of the democratic changes in former Czechoslovakia in November 1989.
The concert of the cimbal music group DANAJ from Straznice was held in the St Joseph Cathedral in Beirut - Ashrafyieh. In the first part, DANAJ presented the traditional music from their region, while in the second part the on-coming pre-Christmas time of advent was reminded with the Moravian folk music related to this end-of-the year time.
After the concert, a cocktail-reception was offered in the lovely and noble ambiance of the crypte under the cathedral to the hundreds of friends of the Czech Republic, Lebanese dingnitaries, foreign diplomats and Czech compatriots living and working in Lebanon.
At the margin of the celebrations, an exhibition reminding 120 years of the automotive industry in the Czech Republic was inaugurated.
