<happening><video> will alert to the deteriorating monuments of the spa in Kyselka</video></happening>

photo: Lukáš Podhorský

Prague - This afternoon, a happening by students and artists will take place in front of the headquarters of Karlovarské minerální vody (KMV) in Prague, accompanying a call to save the spa in Kyselka in the Karlovy Vary region. A video spot will also be released, in which a group of personalities calls on the owner to repair the deteriorating buildings. Photos of the dilapidated monuments in western Bohemian Kyselka were displayed on three trams in Prague. The Municipal Court in Prague ruled on July 30, after a complaint from KMV, that they cannot be displayed on the trams.
    The court's decision only concerns the campaign on transportation vehicles. KMV demanded that the Association for the Protection and Development of Cultural Heritage in the Czech Republic stop spreading the campaign on the web or via email; however, the court rejected this.
    Due to insufficient care for some historical buildings in Kyselka, the company was fined 1.8 million crowns by the Karlovy Vary magistrate at the beginning of the year; the regional office confirmed it, and the company intends to defend itself in court.
    KMV states that it only owns smaller parts of the buildings and bears no responsibility for the others, and that its business has had no impact on the condition of the buildings. This year, the company announced that it wants to renovate two buildings that belong to it. However, according to the association, KMV and the companies it is personally connected with own practically all the buildings and land in the former spa, and are thus responsible for their devastation.