Peace, quiet, but also a lot of noise. What is happening on the banks of the Luhačovice dam?

Water is so scarce here now that even the few fishermen are shaking their heads. They're fed up. Whether they'll catch anything, they don't know yet. "There's really little water here, you don't see that right away, I don't know what's going on," one of them, Milan, who comes here more in the summer, looks at the very low water level.

"No, don't look for a sensation, the water is being released before winter, we are waiting for snow, no major things are really happening," assures Petr Chmelař, spokesman for the Morava River Basin.

What is certain, however, is that seeing the dam "uncovered" like this is not entirely usual, with the banks visually shifted several meters lower.

There is an unusual calm on the asphalt surface of the circuit around the dam. At other times, you see inline skaters or people on scooters in large numbers. Now there are sporadic couples walking around. And they're seeing things they've never been able to see before.

After many years, demolition crews are busy. Something truly unprecedented is happening. The years-old ugly torso of a once-exhibited unionist recreational building, the Voronezh Hotel, is disappearing right before our eyes.

Luhačovice construction authority has issued a decision to remove the building and now the site is littered with huge amounts of construction debris, heavy machinery has been hard at work for a few days. Ludkovice Municipal Authority welcomes the demolition work with joy, but due to less than ideal communication with the owners, it is not yet clear what will grow on the site, which has now really changed a lot...

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