At the Pardubice Castle, a new architectural manual of the city will be presented

Pardubice - The small courtyard of the Pardubice Castle will be the meeting place for lovers of literature, architecture, and public space on Wednesday, June 10th. The fourteenth edition of the event Castle Full of Books carries the subtitle Stories of Space. Books will connect with topics of buildings, cities, and transformations in architecture. The event will also present the architectural manual of Pardubice, stated the organizing Eastern Bohemian Museum in a press release.

This year, the event will take place for the first time in the courtyard, as the interiors of the castle are under reconstruction. Regional publishers, museums, archives, and other institutions will be waiting for visitors with a selection of publications that are not normally available in the bookstore network.

"This year's main guest will be architect, publicist, and popularizer of architecture Adam Gebrian, who has long been dedicated to the subject of public space. He will participate in a moderated discussion in the lecture hall from 5:00 PM," said museum director Tomáš Libánek.

The architectural theme will also be reflected in other parts of the program. At 2:30 PM, the Pardubice Architectural Manual, a new database of significant buildings, urban units, and public spaces that have emerged in Pardubice from 1882 to the present, will be presented to the public for the first time. The project, developed in collaboration with the city and the museum, will offer the public a guide to local architecture.

Festival visitors will also become acquainted with the book by Eva Veselá dedicated to the hundred-year history of the Hradec Kralove violin-making studio Pilař. Historians Petr Vorel, David Richter, and Zuzana Vlasáková will present the publication Chrudim Region in the Year of Our Lord 1614, which describes everyday life, administration, and society in pre-Battle of White Mountain times. Vorel will also introduce a book dedicated to the bankruptcy of the royal credit in Bohemia in 1615, one of the significant economic events in the history of early modern Czechia. Military life in the 19th century will be presented to visitors through a book about the army by Tomáš Jiránek.

Part of the fair is also a small exhibition titled The Book Dressed and Undressed in the castle treasury. "Visitors will not only gain insight into the process of book creation, from the first typeset letter to the finished binding, but they will also have a unique opportunity to admire original prints from the 16th century," said curator and event organizer Nikol Holubová.