The auction will begin at 600,000 CZK.

This is an absolute original. Only this one piece in the world will be auctioned in an auction that will take place in September. The proceeds will be used to support a selected musical talent. The opening price of this colourful beauty is 600,000 CZK. Can you guess for how much it will eventually be auctioned off?

"During the selection process, we had the professional help of the violin virtuoso Václav Hudeček," said Karel Kadlec, owner of CarTec Group, who came up with this idea.

It has not yet been decided to whom the proceeds will be paid.

Prodej bytové jednotky 2x 1+kk, Praha, Praha 2

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Who is Luca Stradivari?

Luca Stradivari is the great-great grandson of the famous Italian violinist Antonio Stradivari. The Stradivari name will be forever associated with this exceptional musical talent. Luca Stradivari is, among other things, head of the Stradivari Foundation, which supports talented musicians. Although he is not a musician himself, he also has a talent. Only in another area, and that is the field of luxury interior design.

StradivariDesign has created many designs of elegant, noble interiors and high-quality furniture.

For Roebling the farming dream fortunately did not work out

The bridge is the work of pioneer of suspension bridges on steel constructions, John August Roebling. He came from Germany and was born in 1806. He studied industrial engineering in Berlin and when he was 25 years old, left for Pennsylvania, where he wanted to settle down as a farmer. But fate took him to Harrisburg, where he began to work as a civil engineer.

The best designer of suspension bridges

Roebling founded a successful plant for cables and soon has earned a reputation for the best designer of suspension bridges which were at that time being constructed, but often was unable to resist strong wind or heavy loads. Roebling made a major breakthrough in technology; on both sides of the bridge road he added a network of links which made the bridge stable. Using this method he successfully bridged the Niagara Falls and the river Ohio in Cincinnati.

How vital his decision not to settle down, farming, became for the city of New York, he has never found out. He died of tetanus, as a consequence of his personal injury when he cut himself on a ship on the East River. The function of head engineer was assumed by his 32-year old son, Washington A. Roebling. 

Pronájem RD, Průhonice - 260 m2, Okolí Prahy

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A bridge tested by 21 elephants

The construction of the bridge lasted for 14 years, having been worked on by 600 men, of which 20 died in the construction; the cost was $15 million, which would in today´s terms represent the sum of around $320 million. In 1884, 21 elephants walked over the bridge to prove that it is sufficiently stable and will withstand the burden. At that time it was the first steel suspension bridge that could boast of the longest span in the world: 1,600 meters from one tower to the other.

With its unprecedented length and two spectacular towers the bridge was called the eighth world wonder and for many years to come it was the tallest building in the whole of the western hemisphere.